In Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira's Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, I learned what exactly was the "imperial university". Prior to reading this paper, I actually had no prior knowledge as to what it was though as I continued to read through the forty-three page paper, I found familiarity in my everyday academic life. The imperial university is not a subservient concept meant to undermine the academy, but rather continues to fuel this inherent need for control. It controls what is taught and what is researched. It constrains the worldly topics that our own doctrine ironically labels as "worldly views". Members of the academy and even members of our own government implement this excessive use of controlling the narratives that get shared by hiding behind the term "academic freedom," which isn't as freeing as we think. And perhaps it's to save themselves for fear of what the truth may do. Or it is a way to keep their control over the people because some people overlook these facts.
More often than not, there is always two sides to an argument. When the general public is presented information, it is up to us to take a stance on the argument from what we're given. On top of this, we must remember to research both sides of the argument to understand the topic. However, from what I've interpreted from the article, is that it's pretty damn hard to believe what you read when it's probably being controlled and tampered with anyway. And I suppose that's our own poison to choose from, and that what we choose to do should is learn as much as we can in any way that we can to avoid the plight of ignorance that this world quite blatantly suffers from.
References:
Chatterjee, P., & Maira, S. (2014). Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Jensen, Jacob. (2014). [Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about perception]. Retrieved from https://hellomynameisjacob.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/art-and-perception/
Questions:
Will the imperial university always rule our education? What can we do with the information we have now?
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