Universities on Fire explores the future of higher education during an age of unfolding climate crisis. Current studies have traced the likely implications of anthropogenic climate change across a range of domains, from agriculture to policy, urban design, technology, culture, and human psychology. However, few have explored how climate change can reshape colleges and universities. Universities on Fire addresses this by connecting climate research to a deep, futures-informed analysis of academia. It starts with a small focus, a given campus, then gradually expands its view to the level of how academia as a whole interacts with civilization’s broadest movements.