Chelsea Reyes
Section A02
Week 4
The
article by deBoer talks about his time in Purdue and how he slowly began to
realize how colleges are getting more affected by corporations. He brings up
examples such as college gear that is super expensive and made by brands like
Nike or Adidas that are sold in the student, and how advertisements for certain
banks are seen all over campus. I also thought of how our university has been
affected by outside corporations. Just recently, Peet's coffee took over the
Starbucks locations that we had on campus. I thought this was interesting,
since I've been at Davis for four years and I could never imagine Starbucks not
being part of our campus. I also think that since more corporations are
investing into colleges, there is this feeling that what can be said on campus
must be more thought out. Universities are supposed to be diverse, and cannot
be if everything is sanitized by big companies not wanting scandals to appear.
A hot topic that also was mentioned was how colleges are employing more
administrators, rather than long-term professors. In the past couple years, I
have had many lecturers who did not know whether they would have a job at UC
Davis at the end of the quarter. A couple lecturers I knew also worked at a
nearby community college or state university just to make ends meet in case
their contract with Davis did not continue. It's upsetting to see such great
teachers not get the chance they deserve at a university like ours.
Question: What were
university's like before they became so "polished" like in today's
standards? Were they more free in terms of free speech and ability to express
one's beliefs openly?
Media:
DeBoer, F. (2015,
September 9). Why We Should Fear University, Inc. Against the corporate taming
of the American college. The New York Times
Magazine. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
Fisher, P. M. (2016,
May 12). [Digital image]. Retrieved October 12, 2017, from http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/05/12/gettyimages-522983890_custom-5684ff035405d7974453024c7f4269e5bc63f845-s900-c85.jpg
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