Camille Joy Abutin

Week 4

Section A01

As of late, there has been a focus by universities to make a college education more affordable for the underprivileged. It’s admirable, but more often times than not I question the integrity of this. Ultimately, the corporatization of the American university illustrates how skewed our values are. As students we pay so much but does our tuition really go towards the things that benefit students? Finding the space in classes needed for students is always a struggle. The most probable solution is to hire more instructors to teach more impacted classes. Yet, administrators take our tuition money and hire even more administrators when what we need is more instructors. And with these administrators, universities began to feel more like a bureaucracy as opposed to a school. In this bureaucratic environment, the system begins to cater to administration instead of the students. From Frederik deBoer’s article, “Why We Should Fear University, Inc.” I have gathered that if we want to have a university system that catered to students, the system should be run by people who understand the students. Whether it be student organizations, instructors, and advisors the leaders of college campuses should be making policies to benefit the student. But I don’t think change is something we, students, should be complacently waiting on. We can’t expect for administration to have a change of heart if we don’t make our voices heard. It’s a tough fight, but its worth it.  

Question: What can we do to slow down the corporatization of our universities right now as students?

DeBoer, F. (2015, September 9). Why We Should Fear University, Inc. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/why-we-should-fear-university-inc.html

Preston, K. My Education is Not for Sale. Digital image. Https://attackthesystem.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/education.png?w=474. N.p., 25 Jan. 2013. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.