Week4_Wenru Shi_Section A01

Week4_Wenru Shi_Section A01

Corporatization is everywhere. We can never stop it.

Corporatization in high education shows in the form of administration of faculty and students, construction of campus and financial programs. Nowadays, most of the public universities are full of “capitalism.” All of the leadership roles in administration are taken by non-academic people who do not care about students and faculties. The money is all used to construct the campus, making it look better, instead of making programs to benefit students. The corporatization reminds me of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, letting Alaska Native to manage their own corporations, which is the entrance to the capitalism. 

After reading the introduction of Amy Block’s book “Whistleblower, ” I could feel the empathy she wanted to transmit to us. She used exquisite words and smooth sentence to illustrate her own feelings at that time. She wanted to tell us how the high education is being corrupted by the corporatization. Even though UC Davis finally sanctioned all the people, it tool long time for her to speak out, to clarify her claims. I searched for the final part of this book and she said she wanted to be the whistleblower even though she realized her career may be ended and her life may be influenced negatively. I admire her courage to fight for justice.

And, interestingly, the book Whistleblower, published in 2010, is in the special collection in UC Davis Library.

Question

Corporatization is an inevitable result because we live in a  capitalism society. And also, Rockefeller, who designed this public school system to let students be unsuccessful, wanted corporatization from the very beginning. So, how to survive through this inevitable system?

Reference

• Joy, Amy Block. (2010). Whistleblower. Point Richmond, CA : Bay Tree Pub. 

• Whistleblower[image]. (2012).  A Guide to the Whistleblower Protection Act & Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012. Retrieved from https://medium.com/athenslivegr/the-short-story-of-a-whistleblower-asking-for-protection-in-greece-bc9d18f8d187