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Week 2 Response – Miguel Rodriguez

The readings all seem to land well for me, but this might be becasue I have been reading so many blogs, stories, articles, etcc.. on having to decide between people and money.

Some qoutes that stood out to me from the readings are

“College presidents and their boards have a seemingly impossible choice..” – College Choice

“At that moment, we hoped to complete our research projects, write our papers, and pass our last class before throwing our caps in the sky and celebrating with our class of 2020” – John Jay Project

“It seems likely that no other college has suffered any many deaths as CUNY” (Robin, 2020)

I am anchoring on a few ideas that are coming from the readings

  1. How capitalism is showing up in “Plans to re open”
  2. How money seems to be the motivating factor for a-lot of private/public institutions.
  3. Notions of academic mutual aid and what that might look like for CUNY.
  4. Are we prioritizing stopping death or keeping life?

I recently published an article this summer that I believe adds to this discourse of this weeks readings (see below)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02615479.2020.1825665?needAccess=true

Week 2 Responses: CUNY and COVID — DUE FEB 8

A prompt or series of questions can help focus your responses to our weekly readings. We encourage you to craft your own prompts and write them at the top of your responses, but we will also suggest prompts to you, as below.

CONTEXT QUESTIONS

  • What kind of texts did we read for today (Feb 9)? (note sources & their conventions)
  • Why begin our course with these kinds of academic writings? (consider teaching/learning context)
  • How are you located in relation to this mini-archive of readings? (name your perspective)

CONTENT QUESTIONS

  • What patterns (e.g., repeated terms, places, rhetorics) do you see across today’s readings? (analyze the data, i.e., remake the parts into a new whole)
  • What key tensions mark/motivate these writings? (set the stakes)
  • What critical frameworks help you engage with these writings, at least partially? (adopt/adapt a theory, methodology, or disciplinary viewpoint)

SITUATED/INFORMED RESPONSE

  • THE REAL QUESTION: What do you most want to say to our class in response to today’s readings, given your considerations of the prompts above?

Critical Vocabulary around Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education

EQUITY: COVID, race, class, gender, fairness, equality, access, opportunity, level playing field, bias, diversity, decolonizing, debt, adjunctification, pipeline, Indigeneity, sustainability

ELITISM: COVID, hierarchy, selection, racism, meritocracy, class stratification, race sorting, ranking, tiers, structures, altac, tacit knowledge, lower ed, privileged poor, white supremacy, classism, ivy league, private,

PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION: COVID, CUNY, institutionalization, public good, community college, free college, Black university, critical university studies, austerity, queer studies

How to post your weekly responses

  1. Hover over “+New” at the top of the POSTS page, then select “Post.”
  2. Use the title: “YOUR NAME + title of response”
  3. Click in the “Start writing or type” block beneath the title. Paste your paragraph into this block.
  4. Click the blue “Publish” box at the top right (you will need to click “Publish” twice). You can “Preview” your post first if you’d like.
  5. The video below takes you through these steps (note: Matt originally created this demonstration for another class, but the steps are the same for ours).