Richard Hil is adjunct professor in the School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University, Gold Coast, adjunct professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, member of the editorial collective of Social Alternatives, board member of the Justice for Fallujah Project and former convenor of the Ngara Institute. Richard’s work has been published extensively, the most recent of which is The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History, with Ross Caputi and Donna Mulhearn. Over the past five years Richard (under his own name and as ‘Joseph Gora’ and ‘Henry Barnes’) has written on Australian higher education for The Australian, Campus Review, New Matilda, Arena Magazine, The Advocate, Social Alternatives, University World News, The Conversation, Overland, Online Opinion, Pearls and Irritations and Countercurrents. His views about higher education are best encapsulated in Whackademia: An Insider’s Account of the Troubled University, published in 2013 by New South, and Selling Students Short: Why You Won’t Get the University Education You Deserve, published by Allen and Unwin in 2015.