Section 2
Week 4
This weeks reading, "Why We Should Fear University, Inc." is about how modern day universities are now turning more into corporations than existing to educate students. Week 4's theme, Corporatization of the University, connects with this article from the New York Times showing that the more corporate-like universities become, the more censored and restricted the students and staff of the school are. One portion of the article that particularly struck me was the discussion that sexual harassment awareness in colleges, and among institutions such as places of employment, is present to protect the school, as well as companies and corporations, not the students. When students are faced with sexual harassment coming from staff they are pressured into filing a report with the school and are not promised any reassurance that their voice will be heard. The corporatization of the university also prohibits instructors from becoming full professors while pocketing off the money they save from halting the careers of their staff. Much like Professor Valverde's experience in obtaining tenure, the increasing corporatization of colleges aids the school in keeping the instructors stagnant. The author is also similar to Prof Valverde because both wrote pieces exposing their universities' wrong doings and risked their job to do so. The author concludes by explaining that students need to speak up about what they want changed in their college to keep it from being a corporation, much like the author did when he published this article.
Question: Besides protesting, what would be a step students can take to remove the corporate hand from universities?- DeBoer, F. Why We Should Fear University, Inc. The New York Times Magazine.
- Fields, D. (2016, August 22). Call for Papers: The Political Economy of University, INC. Retrieved from https://urpe.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/call-for-papers-the-political-economy-of-university-inc/
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