Sacrificial Lambs
Vujnovic M.; Foster J.E.
2022
Palgrave Critical University Studies
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10.1007/978-3-031-12370-2_11
In this chapter, we focus more squarely on related predatory mechanisms of racialized disaster patriarchal capitalism in the pandemic higher education space. Promoting the narrative that students deserve “the college experience” as a way to justify maintaining, and in some cases, increasing revenue streams, global education executives, college and university leaders, and state legislators sacrificed the health, safety, and economic security of students and their families. In other instances, they used the pandemic as an opportunity to escalate attacks on the health and life of the liberal arts mission itself. We specifically shed light on student housing policies, decisions about college sports, CARES Act funding mechanisms, and attacks on the curriculum. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
CARES Act funding; Global education executives; Health and safety of students; Liberal arts; Racialized disaster patriarchal capitalism
Palgrave Macmillan
Book chapter
Scopus