"The promise of market models of higher education like massive open online
courses is that student-customers can build their own degree from a buffet
of choices. But the buffet is heavy on science and math classes, and light
on courses like humanities and social science where structural racism,
sexism, and classism are taught. It is easy to imagine that in a college
buffet, students who make nooses as a team-building exercise won’t take
courses that might make them uncomfortable about doing so. Students
*wanting* that choice make sense. Universities *giving* them the choice to
make a few dollars does not make sense. Visionaries who sell us on these
buffets allude to a future meritocratic economy. The implication is that
the future does not need gatekeepers, leaders, or citizens who understand
why making a noose in the student newsroom might be bad for morale."
More here -
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/counter_narrative/2013/12/minneapolis_professor_shannon_gibney_reprimanded_for_talking_about_racism.html
Regards,
Gopi
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