Universities are embedded in and implicated in their communities’ crises

Evidence

Fundamental to this conceptual argument is the need for universities to recognize how they are implicated in crises of the poor and working class and that “universities [do] not stand ‘outside’ of the social and, reflect the characteristics of their environment” (Swartz, p. 140). We argue that universities are indeed integral parts of the local, social, political, cultural, and economic life of the communities in which it is located. When critical engaged scholarship is responsive to pressing social issues such as the crisis in education, the possibilities for a genuinely democratic and caring society are enhanced. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ivory-tower critique of higher education across my reading on institutional detachment from the ground, e.g. base towns and plantation scholarship. — connects to: Neoliberalism makes universities detached from pressing social problems — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 184

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism makes universities detached from pressing social problems #complicates (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 184