Lisa Meng ASA 002 A01 Week 9

For week 9, I would be focusing on the reading “Academic Symbiosis – A manifesto on tenure and promotion in Asian American studies” by Wei Ming Dariotis. After reading the article, I learned that the reason why people see tenure and promotion very important, it is because they are the rewards for academic preparation and labor, and tenure also symbolized for the height of intellectual capital. Also, there is the idea of academic symbiosis. Academic symbiosis is the opposite side of academic competition, hierarchy, and parasitism. It is about constructing a friendly, supportive academic community for everyone to share with each other instead of fighting over scarce resources.

Academic symbiosis is important, because it creates a loving environment for everyone in academia. It is about sharing and supporting. First thing we should do is having a right mind set. We need to be willing to support other, rather than trying to dominate or to be dominated. We should see each other as we are equal.

I believe in order to make academic symbiosis successful is hard, because everyone needs to be willing to share and support each other. People born to be having a sense of compete with others. Telling people not to compete and be friendly all the time is tough.

Q:

Did people successfully achieve academic symbiosis?

References:
Dariotis, Wei Ming. “Academic Symbiosis : A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies.” Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 382–416.
SC, Phoebe. “StuDocu: Sharing and Supporting Higher Education.” StuDocu, StuDocu, 26 Apr. 2018, blog.studocu.com/en/uncategorized-en/studocu-sharing-supporting-education/.