On the publication of his book, Precipice or Crossroads? Where America’s Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway Through Their Second Century, Inside Higher Ed interviews Daniel Mark Fogel, professor of English and former UVM president. Fogel discusses the significance of the 150-year-old Morrill Act that established the land-grant university and his views on the fate of pubic higher education. The book, a collection of essays, was co-edited by English lecturer Elizabeth Maison-Huddle. Read the interview…