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PromotionalHigher Learning: A Snapshot of University Presses in 2025
Fall is here and it’s time to celebrate University Press Week. This year’s theme—#StepUP—is a chance to discover the ways university presses step up to educate, enlighten, and take action and to explore how their publications and platforms help to contextualize current issues and events, offer solutions to global challenges, and amplify diverse voices across an array of disciplines.
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Higher Learning 2025: University of Arkansas Press
Located in Fayetteville, Ark., a city known as an academic hub and for its innovative spirit, the University of Arkansas Press was founded in 1980 by the historian Willard Gatewood and the poet Miller Williams, who was named its inaugural director.
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Higher Learning 2025: Boydell & Brewer/ University of Rochester Press
An independent, employee-owned publisher with offices in the U.K. and the U.S., Boydell & Brewer is committed to delivering the best humanities and social science scholarship to a global audience.
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Higher Learning 2025: Cambridge University Press
The world’s oldest university press, Cambridge University Press was granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534 and is known as the King’s Printer. As part of the University of Cambridge—an institution globally renowned for its academic excellence and innovative thinking—the press delivers trusted research and learning materials that enhance understanding and support Cambridge’s mission to advance knowledge and contribute to society through education and research.
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Higher Learning 2025: University Press of Colorado
Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado, led by director Darrin Pratt, is devoted to advancing and disseminating knowledge globally by publishing significant scholarly works and making them accessible to a wide audience.
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Higher Learning 2025: Paradigm Publishing Services
Conceived in October 2023 and launched a year later with a new brand and website, Paradigm Publishing Services is a visionary division of De Gruyter Brill that’s designed to respond to the evolving needs of publishers in the modern digital era.
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Higher Learning 2025: Johns Hopkins University Press
Led by executive director Barbara Kline Pope, the Johns Hopkins University Press is one of the world’s largest university presses, with a diverse range of scholarly content–related products and services, including a book distribution division, Hopkins Fulfillment Services, and Project MUSE, a massive online collection of 800 journals and 100,000 books from 400 publishers available to millions of readers worldwide.
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Higher Learning 2025: Celebrating Our Veterans
This year, University Press Week begins on November 11, Veterans Day—the day we pay tribute to military veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. In honor of the occasion, the Association of University Presses is calling special attention to the five members that are affiliated with U.S. Armed Forces universities: Air University Press, Army University Press, Marine Corps University Press, Naval Institute Press, and West Point Press.
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Higher Learning 2025: Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama
Lovers of offbeat fiction and poetry need look no further than Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama, a publisher on a mission to discover and release works that might not be appreciated elsewhere.
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PW Studio: Higher Learning 2025: University of Manitoba Press
Founded in 1967, the University of Manitoba Press is the oldest university press in Western Canada, located on the original lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, and Dakota Oyate peoples and on the Homeland of the Red River Métis Nation. The press publishes critical scholarship that engages with the issues and events affecting the lives of Canadians and is recognized as a leading publisher of books on Indigenous history, Indigenous studies, and Canadian history.
