Week 4_ Christine Chau _A04

This week's readings definitely has shown me how corrupt universities can be. I think as a student sometimes we're go caught up in the school work and studying all the time that we don't realize how the systems are set up. The article Why We Should Fear University by Fredrik highlighted important themes of how universities can be misleading. We often think that the universities are supposed to serve us because they do provide us an education and resources for us to succeed. However, sometimes we have to remember that it's because we're paying them to. And that's the thing, it's caused we paid them to. Universities can be greedy and only care for the money they're making. Whoever's payroll receiving that money had one goal, and that is to make money. There are some faculty and staff who do love the work they do, and do care for the students, but as Fredrik said, "I wish that committed student activists would recognize that the administrators who run their universities, no matter how convenient a recipient of their appeals, are not their friends." Fredrik also mentioned the campus itself, and how it has lost its' beauty. Which makes me think about Davis. Are we preserving it's beauty and what we're known for? Are we slowly destroying our campus by not being aware of the injustices happening, the slow deterioration of the educational system? UC's mission statement is "The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge." But all it really is, is just thousands of students struggling in their own way to make the passing grades. There are a select few who really do benefit from the knowledge and apply it, but I think the students (like me) who just go through the system just to pass and move on outweigh those select few if we're being honest. 

I chose this image for my blog post this week as a metaphor of how universities are like. All about the $$

References: 

deBoer, F. (2015, September 9). Why We Should Fear University Inc. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/why-we-should-fear-university-inc.html

Photo:

The importance of promoting personal growth in your employees. (2016, August 04). Retrieved from

https://www.cuinsight.com/importance-promoting-personal-growth-employees.html