Re: [xmca] Culture, Development, Higher Education

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Great to know, Helena.
For those interested, the following website has some interesting materials.
Locally, Althea Nixon has suggested reading Christopher Newfield's book
on the unmaking of the public university (HUP) but that is too heavy. The
national website appears to have good materials on it, and i am putting
together a small, one day, reading assignment for my students. The basic
question they need to be able to articulate is whether they can justify
an increase of $32/year in taxes for Californians to re-public-ize UC or
whether its ok to take it private, which is for sure what our regents are
heading to toward.

mike
PS-- Meanwhile, i am worrying about David P and our colleagues in Chile who
got slammed with an earthquake. I hope it the resulting tsunami is tiny by
the time it get to Hawaii and elsewhere. All we get here is a little,
much needed rain.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Worthen, Helena Harlow <
hworthen@illinois.edu> wrote:

> Mike --
>
> There are doings at University of Illinois, too, and evidently all over.
>
> There is a national website for the March 4 day of protest where people are
> posting resources:
>
> defendcapubliceducation.wordpress.com/
>
> More to come.
>
> Helena
>
>
> Helena Worthen
> Clinical Associate Professor
> Labor Education Program University of Illinois
> 504 East Armory, Champaign, IL 61820
> 217-244-4095
> hworthen@illinois.edu
> communicate/coordinate/cooperate/collaborate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of mike cole
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:17 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity
> Subject: [xmca] Culture, Development, Higher Education
>
> Dear Colleagues-
>
> We have had an ugly and confused sequence of racial confrontation at UCSD
> for the past 10 days
> or so. These events coincide with a faculty "day of action" March 4 which
> will be some combination
> of teach out, walk out, protest.
>
> I am teaching a course on culture and development. I have addressed the
> racial issues effectively (or
> at least, to me coherently) within the frame of the course, and I have
> dealt
> with the history of schooling
> and its contemporary impact on development. But i would like a reading that
> specifically looks at the role of higher education in development,
> preferably one that deals with what it means to have a PUBLIC
> university to the development of those who participate and society as a
> whole.
>
> I am unsure of what to assign even as I look for some kind of microphone to
> rent that can allow me
> to address 100 students outside the classroom in a public place. Can anyone
> help?
> mike
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