university and community Américo Ángel Fernández
If anything has become clear after examining the new University Act passed by the old National Assembly in their last moments is that the regime has set the attempt to subdue by means of institutional destruction and appealing to a pragmatic logic of "equipment" spurious one of his toughest opponents and consistent as indeed are the houses of Higher Education.
The first thing that springs package is to turn the universities into a sort of "small colleges" where the most important programs and responsibilities in teaching, academic and administrative inherent in being a constitutionally established free space, move to a kind of "decision-maker only" embodied in a super education minister. Thus it is blown university autonomy in order to design a monster which the University and its "life cycle" are managed "from above" by executive and ambit of a purely bureaucratic rationality against the grain of the diverse and complex.
Second is an issue no less, expressed in the particular way this law was passed as part of a package of laws, pushed literally hammered into the month of December, complete the race in one of the most sordid and grotesque acts of Parliament within the continent and, without proper lift on an exchange or deliberative debate where they could participate in the various sectors of the country, the actors of university life, researchers and intellectuals, as demand a stake of changes that involve major issues and delicate as the appropriation and production of knowledge.
In this perspective, it is pertinent to state that the nature of the changes introduced with the new law, far from responding to a rethinking of horizons and destinations for the academy, is rather ambit to relocate the University under a scheme of political control abolish its status critical space, deliberative and public coexistence of the diversity of thoughts.
therefore not surprising that one of the articles of the new law, specifically Article 64 emphasizes that "A college education should contribute to the construction of socialist productive model." There is clear political and ideological tint of the legislation, the socialist model to the exclusion of all others, the University fully subject to the goals of the State as in earlier times it was with regard to the Church, but especially draws attention construction away, which is removed, what is not said, namely: omission in the proposed text of the free use of reason or simply the exercise of critical thinking.
Once stripped of its critical potential, abolished its capacity as a deliberative space and removed its privileged character for the diversity of thought, the university had become a single part or device of a reason to, intended to serve the purpose instrumentally official political ideology or religion of state. Thus, science, philosophy, reason, critics, art, knowledge and morality to already be marked, the discussion is not only canceled but would be useless, as it would pre-determined state into laughter. The conclusion is devastating: the University is visited by a "police ethics"
And in this Act deprives universities of their status as leading individual institutions, their role is minimized relative to fertilize the production and appropriation of knowledge, to promote critical thinking and dialogical experience and hosting space to think the difference, to meet the convergence / divergence in the context of diversity and plurality of thought and speech.
Teachers also suffering from the severe impact of the scope of the Act are no longer teachers, who contribute to lead the process of appropriation of knowledge, and non-researchers. Are labeled as "academic workers, single workers without any freedom, caught in the mesh of the program structure and academic who comes from above via a" sole decider "embodied in a Minister with superlative powers. Any "employee" which goes beyond the "order of discourse" can be punished by a very causal cited "lack of respect."
In addition, the University by way of this Act begins to enter an orbit so far unpublished, the orbit of communal councils. Indeed, the creation in the legal text of a foreign university transformation territorial councils (Article 25) shackle to the homes of Higher Education to the Pandora's box of "riotous decisions, as these councils linking the People's Power vital decisions ranging from involvement leading role in the institutional changes to the design of communal lines, combined with the strategic plans of other districts called point way forward for the University. In this context, regional and district councils breed engines Linking COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE POWER. It is for this expedited that state power ends in practice by crushing every vestige of autonomy. The intention is to move towards a single model of university and apart from the constriction of the faculty and its political subjugation, the trend is toward a communal form partisan corporatism. Already
ending this article I heard the news, that the executive suspends the Assembly approved LEU dying.
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