Week 10 - Jiaqi Huang

Jiaqi Huang
Section A02
Week 10: The Future of Higher Education

For the final reading of this quarter, "The Time to Fight is Now," Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis exemplify the many injustices in academia, especially towards women through their own journeys. From an outsider's perspective, it seems that academia is where the minorities groups, women, and prejudiced experience mutual support and respect for their achievement(s) and study, but under this pretense, scholars (like the two authors) are "struck by a myriad of physical and psychological illnesses" when they began to speak up.

This reading focuses on women in academia but the scary part is that its content surpasses academia settings. Throughout this quarter, many of the invited speakers have experienced this reality and they have shared their "punishment" with the class. To some, it may serve as a warning to go against the tower and to others, a push to initiate. Either way, their information has expanded the Asian American experience for this class. When I entered this class, I expected stereotypical studies about Asian American history and our presence in society as stats, not social justice encompassing other groups and learning about the structure of higher education. This was a busy quarter and throughout the 10 weeks, there was a lot of information to absorb but I know this information is something I will reflect on for the rest of my experience as an Asian American.

Question: Professor Valverde did you teach this class base on the "standard Asian American curriculum" or did you do the "Valverde-way"?

Sources:

1. "Take Naps But Stay Woke." LookHUMAN. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2017
2. Valverde, C., & Dariotis, W. (2017). "The Time to Fight is Now": When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue. Retrieved June 2, 2017.