Section A01
Week 4
This
week’s readings talked about corruption and unrevealed problems of University of
California, especially of UC Davis. Among the readings, I was most impressed by
“Whistle blower”, where Amy Block Joy described her experience of seeing her
coworkers involve in corruption but had no one to reach out for. She wanted to
reveal the secret but ended up being singled out. Another serious issue was
talked about in the article "Why We Should Fear
University, Inc.,”. Fredrik deBoer revealed that universities have been hiring
a lot more administrative officers instead of academic professors, while the
number of professors are seriously in short.
The first thing that
came to mind after reading about all the resource misuse in UCD was the
building reconstruction issue. It was said that school was planning on
reconstructing Harring Hall for some minor problems, while most people believed
this to be unnecessary. Moreover, construction evaluators revealed that the
cost for reconstruction was even more expensive than knocking down an old
building and replacing it with a new one. The fact that school has been wasting
money on unnecessary issues, including the corruption and job position issue
mentioned in the articles, will cause serious problems on school institution operation. If these problems remain
unsolved, the resources would not be properly used and this for sure impacts
greatly on students’ right.
Question: What are some changes we can make to this situation as students?
This picture represents the corruption and also all the sneaky secrets unrevealed by the school.
Reference:
1. 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
2. Joy, A. B. (2010). Whistleblower. Point Richmond, CA: Bay Tree Pub.
3. Anver, G. (2016, February 09). How Corrupt is Sri Lanka- And What Does This Mean? Retrieved from https://roar.lk/reports/corrupt-sri-lanka-mean/
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