ABSTRACT
Managers, administrators, academic staff and students now function under a commercial, transactional system of hierarchical power relations informed by 'managerialism' and 'new public management' principles. [...]universities do not have to undergo a living death. [...]in alerting us to other possibilities, Hil et al. discuss the many alternative models of higher education that exist globally, and which offer the prospect of a regenerative university capable of responding to the challenges of the twenty-first century. The authors are members of Academics for Public Universities (https:// publicuniversities.org), a group of academics interested in undertaking independent research to understand, address, and improve the current state of Australian public universities.