Samantha Nguyen
ASA 2 A03
Week 10
I find it
interesting and inspiring to end the weekly readings with this week’s theme of
the future of higher education. It provides the opportunity to re-think about
what we learned over the last 10 weeks and apply it to fighting for the future
of higher education. Introduction to Fight the Tower ties back to the first
weekly readings about the struggles Asian American women face in academia. When
first being exposed to the truths of injustices, I was a bit skeptical and
shocked. However, after diving deeper into the topics of discrimination, corporatization
of universities, imperial universities, and student activism, I have come to
care deeply about higher education. It’s difficult to believe that professors
such as Valverde, Rosalie Tung, Wei Ming Dariotis, and others have faced so
many issues regarding tenure even though they each are equally qualified. One
quote that stood out to me was, “… fear teaches us inaction, and anger,
directed appropriately, leads us to act” (p. 18). It’s okay to be angry and to
use that anger to invoke a change. Even though the stereotype of associating
Asians with meekness, weakness, and silence still exists today, we can prove it
wrong. In the end of it all, uniting together in action is the most powerful. We
must empower one another to recreate and re-envision education as liberation,
and it’s important that we do this together.
Question: How do we
keep consistently challenging the system and not grow complacent?
References:
1.
Valverde, C., & Dariotis, W. (2017).
"The Time to Fight is Now": When Asian American Women in Academia Go
Rogue. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
2.
[Digital Image]. (2015) Retrieved November 25,
2017 from http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/04/09/opt-international-student-optional-practical-training-f1-visa-washington-seattle-uw/35679
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