The California Geographer Vol. 60 (2021)Journal of California Geographical Societyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2212022024-03-28T21:18:49Z2024-03-28T21:18:49ZCrisis Writing on the California State University: Extended Review ArticleDerrick, Matthewhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2212122021-07-22T00:00:43Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZCrisis Writing on the California State University: Extended Review Article
Derrick, Matthew
The diagnosis of a crisis in United States higher education, though certainly predating the twenty-first century (Dorn 2017), has become particularly pronounced in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Indeed, as Bowser suggests in the opening pages of The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education: The Case of the California State University (2017), the Great Recession birthed a veritable cottage industry of "crisis writers." The book of the genre, as its author tells us (Blumenstyk 2020), is Goldie Blumenstyk's American Higher Education in Crisis? What Everyone Needs to Know (2014). Billing her work as a "primer" aimed at a wide audience -- the title itself tells us everyone must know -- Blumenstyk identifies and examines the main trends she says have led U.S. higher education to its current state of rot. Prominent among the trends she examines are (1) an increasingly diverse body of students that is accompanied by new, unique sets of needs to which an ill-prepared, if not inflexible, faculty is unable to respond; (2) soaring tuitions, stemming from a combination of state disinvestment and outdated, unsustainable business models, that burden students with unsustainable levels of debt and, when considered in aggregate, might well form the next financial bubble; and (3) racial and economic stratification that continues to grow within and between campuses across the country.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZGeographic ChroniclesDerrick, MatthewGarayúa, José Díazhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2212132022-11-07T20:20:41Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZGeographic Chronicles
Derrick, Matthew; Garayúa, José Díaz
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2021-01-01T00:00:00ZNotes from a Field: Reflections on Space, Gardening, and Student Learning in Southern CaliforniaGuthey, Greig Torhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2212092021-07-22T00:03:46Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZNotes from a Field: Reflections on Space, Gardening, and Student Learning in Southern California
Guthey, Greig Tor
The impacts of gardens are often much larger than the produce grown in them. This paper reflects upon and discusses the broader impacts associated with a garden tied to a geography class about food systems. The project was initiated by students and supported by campus faculty, administrators, and staff over the past eight years. The project's connections to ongoing debates about the history and roles of gardens in general and campus gardens are considered. Both student evaluation data and the instructor's observations over eight years suggest that the readings and discussion, combined with student participation in garden development and the regular tasks of gardening, extend student learning and may promote emancipatory work.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZUprooted: Gardening and Landscaping During the Japanese American InternmentSuto, AmberVoeks, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2212082021-07-22T00:03:05Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZUprooted: Gardening and Landscaping During the Japanese American Internment
Suto, Amber; Voeks, Robert
Gardens constitute a nexus between culture and constructed nature. For diaspora communities, they often stand as material reflections of the process of cultural continuity and assimilation. In the case of forced immigrants, such as the incarceration of roughly 120,000 Nikkei (Japanese Americans) during World War II, the degree to which they were able to reconstruct features of the gardens of their homelands is particularly instructive. Using primary sources in public archives, we investigate how interned Nikkei used gardening to endure their incarceration and to recultivate their traditional relationships with nature. For Nikkei internees, gardens provided a wealth of material and psychological benefits. Because the camps were typically at locations largely devoid of vegetation, gardens provided a means to making their forced incarceration in hostile landscapes more habitable. Most importantly, because camp gardens were explicit celebrations of Japanese heritage, they constituted subtle acts of political resistance.
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