Corporatization of Univerisity

Alexander Broughton

Section 2

Week 4

I must confess that I must have been a little naive. I thought that the answer to many of the United State’s social and political issues are in education. Without taking into account the privatization, corporatization, and institutionalization of microaggressions in universities, I fear that I have contributed to a larger, nation-wide apparatus diminishing the right to free education. Without a solid commitment to open education and reasonable dialogue, I now fear that the American students are heading towards severe mental damage.

                 How does privatization hurt open education in university? According to The Atlantic article, universities are turning to sponsorships, administrative reorganization, and corporatization to avoid accountability. Classrooms should, represent a unique environment for socio-political thought experimentation. If one speaks of the possible benefits of social democracy in a classroom, the classroom should not target him or her as a neo-communist. Similarly, if a student speaks of possibly hidden institutionalized racism in a classroom, I would expect that the student get unbiased attention without the fear of anti-American or unpatriotic labels. The moment one corporatizes the system, the situation gets one step further towards inanity. It opens a gap for over-sensitivity towards microaggressions. Microaggressions may be indicative of racism, but that is only if they occur habitually. Over-sensitivity can only lead to censorship, closed education, and close-mindedness.