Week4_Van Nguyen_A04

Van Nguyen 912781899

ASA 2 - A04

Week 4

From the “A Tale of Two Campuses: Berkeley and Davis respond to Occupy movements” by Markow, I don’t really understand why he wrote such a paper. All I can tell is he is comparing UCD’s response and UCB’s response towards the Occupy movements, and while UCB announced of the 15% cap for middle-income family, UCD publicize the damages they suffered materialistically and it made them loss about $8,300 of unexpected expense. In my opinion, it can be either UCB did not experience such damages as big as UCD or they were trying to please the crowds, announced such a policy to calm the situation first. While UCD was indirectly criticize the movement of not being as “peaceful” as it should goes, and going one-on-one against the issue. The author left a big question that needs to be answered is that why UCB chose to did what she did and UCD chose a different path. If he did not provide any information, or opinions, I think he should better just wrote the article as an informational article, rather than putting in why this way and that.

In all the readings, I largely empathy with what DeBoer said about the universities, operating more and more like corporations. As a college students, even though we know that universities are non-profit educational institutions (at least for UCD and other universities we know of). However, the students feel like we are exploited by the school for the sake of tuition fee that if taken through student loans, we have to pay it back in our entire life, may be even till the very end. The university is increasingly crowded, too many students, not enough facilities, such as lecture halls or union center, within a four years of college, there were at least five facilities construction project were planned, started, and finished just within UCD. Moreover, the tuition fee is increasing every year, and together with living expenses, and books, leads to more and more money pressure on the students who are in their brightest years, going to universities hoping to learn to improve themselves and able to identify who they are, but they come to universities and realize the humongous wall of reality they can’t even dare to jump over. University is where students build their dream, a resource students can make use of for them to be more successful in the future, but more and more students are working while in college, all due to “money”. In addition, in a place has freedom of speech, and freedom to protest like the US, many movements were carried on campus, and the battle between activist-students and the school administration is another hot potato on campus. Too frequent protest carried out by employees or students against the school administration can created hostility among the other group of students who just want to peacefully graduate from college, get a job, and hoping to have a life.

Reading Amy Block Joy’s “Ethnic and ‘Breaking Bad’: Developing and Practicing Ethical Skills” makes me think, is it that there are similar thing going on in the school system, that may have led to those issues mentioned above. There are multiple problems to why employees do not dare to voice out, they have powerful voice but were all suppressed by the environment and the surrounding people. Fear, job security and retaliation, pear pressures, afraid of being alienated from the group of people they once belonged to/supposed to belong to, that are the barriers to taking the “right” action. The biggest issue is the environment. A working environment that makes the employees feel comfortable, by having a strong ethical culture will allow the employees more willing to take action.

  

Citations:

DeBoer, F. (2015, September 9). Why We Should Fear University, Inc. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from https://nyti.ms/1K8JSUV

Joy, A. B. (may 2014). Ethnics and “Breaking Bad”: Developing and Practicing Ethical Skills. Compliance and Ethics Professional: A Publication of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics,71-74.

Markow, A. (2011, December 22). A Tale of Two Campuses: Berkeley and Davis respond to Occupy movements. Retrieved from http://ivn.us/news/2011/12/19/a-tale-of-two-campuses-berkeley-and-davis-respond-to-occupy-movements/

Yang, J. (2016, May). When You’re the “Other” at Work [Digital image]. Retrieved from https://experiencelife.com/article/when-youre-the-other-at-work/