{"id":38,"date":"2008-03-16T12:52:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minkhollow.ca\/KB\/Blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:58","slug":"resisting-the-corporatization-and-militarization-of-university-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2008\/03\/16\/resisting-the-corporatization-and-militarization-of-university-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting the Corporatization and Militarization of University Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>I just love this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=8342\">http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=8342\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc.ca\/\">University of British Columbia\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-CA\"><font face=\"verdana\">To effectively resist the commercialization of public space and the corporatization and militarization of education, students at the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1205587392_4\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc\">University of British Columbia<\/span> (UBC) created a political group in the summer of 2007 called Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). SDS-UBC consists of students who are unafraid to use direct-action to enact radical social change.\u00a0 We actively resist the corporate and military funding of our education, and we believe that students should have a meaningful role in the decision-making processes at the university.<\/font><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><font face=\"verdana\">Some concrete issues that came out of Resisting the University which SDS-UBC hopes to realize:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Banning military recruitment at UBC. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Banning military funding for the Arts and Sciences (eg from the Security and Defence Forum of the Canadian military). <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Stopping the rise of sessional teachers by changing the university&#8217;s hiring policies. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Changing the tenure process so that it breeds less fear, conservatism and complacency. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Stopping commercial development on campus: affordable student, staff and faculty housing only! <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Equalizing the allocation of funds so that departments that don&#8217;t exist to generate a profit secure adequate funding for quality research and permanent staff. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Pressuring the provincial government to better fund post-secondary education. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">No more Tuition Fees! Zero student debt and zero fees to ensure the university is accessible to all. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Transforming UBC&#8217;s governance structures into more transparent, representative and accountable bodies by empowering the Senate; jettisoning appointed seats; allowing students to easily place an item on the Board of Governors agenda; and eliminating corporate presence on the Board. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">An official acknowledgement that UBC is built on stolen land and that the Coast Salish, and the Musqueam people in particular, have a right to it. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"verdana\">Coalition building among sessionals, faculty, and other activists organizations to realize these goals.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-38'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(38);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(38);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(38);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I just love this: http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=8342\u00a0 This is from the University of British Columbia\u00a0 \u00a0To effectively resist the commercialization of public space and the corporatization and militarization of education, students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) created a political group &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2008\/03\/16\/resisting-the-corporatization-and-militarization-of-university-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[388,41,393],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1438,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/11\/15\/comments-on-the-shadow-scholar-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":0},"title":"Comments on: The Shadow Scholar &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education. 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