ASA 2, Professor Valverde
TA: Josh Watkins, Section: A01
10/2/2015
The University Weaponizes Historical Amnesia Against Students
The Implications of Dr. Valverde's Tenure Battle: University Administrative Responses to Student Activism Against Tenure Denials
Although we should also celebrate Dr. Valverde's tenure battle victory, we must continue to fight the violent institutional discrimination against women of color scholars in universities. As students, we must resist the expulsion of women of color scholars in academia, because the student activism component of Dr. Valverde's tenure battle has social historical significance for the technocratic administration's new designs of intellectual suppression. If we do not tell Dr. Valverde's tenure battle testimonio to future generations of UC Davis students, the UCD administration will weaponize historical amnesia against students, teach them a administrative co-opted orthodoxy of social justice, and gradually turn new students into agents of administrative surveillance and classroom policing. After all, one of factors that led to Dr. Valverde's tenure battle victory was the organic, grassroots student movement who fearlessly questioned Dr. Valverde's department and administrative for the denial of her tenure (Valverde, 398.) In order to prevent future organic, massive student movements, the university administration has developed the co-optation of social justice knowledge production and sold this co-opted knowledge to students. The administration's agenda is to turn students into intellectual police and distract them from fighting for future women of color scholars' tenure battles.
Although we should also celebrate Dr. Valverde's tenure battle victory, we must continue to fight the violent institutional discrimination against women of color scholars in universities. As students, we must resist the expulsion of women of color scholars in academia, because the student activism component of Dr. Valverde's tenure battle has social historical significance for the technocratic administration's new designs of intellectual suppression. If we do not tell Dr. Valverde's tenure battle testimonio to future generations of UC Davis students, the UCD administration will weaponize historical amnesia against students, teach them a administrative co-opted orthodoxy of social justice, and gradually turn new students into agents of administrative surveillance and classroom policing. After all, one of factors that led to Dr. Valverde's tenure battle victory was the organic, grassroots student movement who fearlessly questioned Dr. Valverde's department and administrative for the denial of her tenure (Valverde, 398.) In order to prevent future organic, massive student movements, the university administration has developed the co-optation of social justice knowledge production and sold this co-opted knowledge to students. The administration's agenda is to turn students into intellectual police and distract them from fighting for future women of color scholars' tenure battles.
Citation
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline. "Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia." Seattle Journal for Social Justice. 12: 2. 2013.
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Question
How can UCD students (and future UCD students) stop themselves from becoming the institutional police of the university and continue to fight for women of color scholars' tenure?
Dr. Darrell Hamamoto: The Terrible Truth About Universities
[Start the video at 40:00 for further expansion on my response.]
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