By Creston Davis, Alberto Pacheco Benites, Julie Reshe, Helen Rollins

The constellation of texts presented in this book encompasses diverse thematic and methodological positions and perspectives. The first text, The GCAS Case, by Creston Davis, presents GCAS to exemplify a different possibility in the current university education landscape, contrasting GCAS with the neoliberal model of education. The second essay, by Alberto Pacheco Benites, entitled "Rigor Mortis. Regarding The Contemporary University In The Shadow Of Three Crises," addresses the current university system and its modern crisis from three perspectives: the categorical, institutional and informational crises, as well as possible solutions to change the system. The third text, “Notes From The Private Tutoring Industry,” by Helen Rollins, using the phenomenon of private tutoring as a case study, addresses the notion of education as a promise of a better future and how this is quite different in reality. Finally, Julie Reshe shares a writing with a personal, critical and ironic tone, entitled “Academia As A Therapy For Despair: A Confession From The Ledges,” where she addresses what it means to be an academic today, the absurdity of the game of academia and publications, what it means to be a single mother in that world and, of course, how that is, at the same time, a form of therapy against despair.