The “Crisis” in Higher Education
Recent Writing on the UC Crisis:
- Breaking Trust: The Past and Future of the University of California: A guest post by Gina Patnaik.
- The Regency
- A Defense of Dreaming in Public: A guest post from my friend Christopher Miller.
- “thy life is a flitting state, a tent for a night”
- This is a Microcosm of All Sorts of Things: Where and When Violence is Appropriate on Campus
- “The Grass Is Closed”: What I Have Learned About Power from the Police, Chancellor Birgeneau, and Occupy Cal
- The Private University of California
- The Day Before the Day of Action: A guest post by Michelle Ty
- Education and the Path to Riches (5/25/11)
- Rationally In-Exuberant about Public Higher Ed (5/13/11)
- Hyperbole (and Progressive Bloggers) Fail Me: The End of Public Higher Education (5/12/11)
- How Fox News polices the Curriculum (4/29/11)
(SUNY and) More on the End of Public Higher Ed
How Not to Talk About the Crisis in Higher Education
On why the argument that Sacramento is the problem is a problem when Mark Yudof says it: “The sign-up sheets didn’t have a column for students”: Mark Yudof and the UC Regents = Sacramento
God help me I will never write about the issue of tenure please help me oh God
My writing about the strike and occupation during November, 2009:
- On Being a Graduate Student (sort of) On Strike (11/18)
- To Summarize (11/19)
- Wheeler Hall Occupation (11/20)
- Wheeler Hall Occupied by the Police (11/21)
- Security Doors (11/22)
- On teaching a writing class in a classroom whose doors were recently knocked off their hinges by the police (11/23)
- “UC regents, I see Tyrants” (11/24)
- “The Police didn’t beat us with batons; the administration beat us with police” (11/25)
- In Solidarity (11/26)
- And my Chronicle of Higher Education piece, “Making Sense of Senseless Violence” (12/1)
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Why are these sites so potent for acisitvm? The campus combines several issues into one e28093 the privatization of public services, the dismembering of social insurance and its replacement with a regime of debt and risk-shifting, the dismantling of the primary means of social mobility with one designed to entrench inequality, which all builds towards a lack of freedom to fully develop ones talents and abilities and be full, productive citizens. Could be. But isn’t this happening everywhere? The slashing of social services, the slow reintroduction of debt peonage, and the hardening of the classes are part of broader change in society. We all know the history of the past thirty years. It isn’t necessary to recount it. Meanwhile the lack of freedom and the inability to develop one’s own life is normal for most people in service or other low wage work. I imagine even the wealthy feel this way from time to time. Yet, your question remains: why? Could it be that the reason universities have always been hotbeds of radicalism is because students themselves, while facing mounting obstacles as you point out, are still relatively freer than most other segments of society? For most students schooling is their primary occupation, they’re young and therefore more likely to hit the streets on a whim, and for many of them this is college is the first time they encounter radical ideas, whether from professors or other students. The reason there aren’t mass demonstrations from all the citizenry probably has to do with the greater degree of rigidity in their personal lives as opposed to the liberty universities provideIn simpler terms, it’s hard to take off work but easy to skip class.
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