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OTC: Elephant in the Room: Poverty, Privilege and Higher Education
Elephant in the Room: Poverty, Privilege and Higher Education
Colette Taylor, College of Education EDUC 350 | 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson set out the ambitious goal for America, stating “a high school student anywhere in this great land of ours can apply to any college or any university in any of the fifty states and not be turned away because his family is poor.” Almost fifty years later, that promise of equal access to higher education has yet to be realized. This discussion seeks to “recognize the elephant in the room” and address how unspoken messages about cultural, privilege, and socioeconomic status impacts who has access to higher education.

OTC 2014 -Bridging the Communication Gap: Globalization, Privilege, Poverty & Sustainability
Globalism as a way of thinking about the interconnectedness, the commonalities, the shared interests of a larger community signals a paradigmatic shift from the way that many of us grew up thinking about community. This view of globalism as a polity with the welfare of the many as its central assumption contrasts sharply with that of a globalized community—one that has been overtaken or colonized by political and/or economic forces. Globalism speaks to nuances of internationalism, of a collective, whereas globalization can trigger connotations of oppression and imperialism. What can be lost in all of the mediated information is the importance of human dignity around the globe. How do we understand the perspective of the privileged, of the mainstream? How do we, in the midst of all this "knowledge," also acknowledge human talent, experience, and plight? How do we incorporate into discussions of poverty, privilege, and sustainability the innovations of technology, policy, development, resources, utilization, and environmental degradation? Such distinctions in the meanings of these terms help to illustrate the powerful subtleties of the OTC initiative for 2014.

The aim of the Open Teaching Concept is to explore the issues of diversity and social justice, access and disparities, policy and poverty over a variety of disciplines, methods, theories, and paradigms. Looking at such topics as human rights, civil rights, hunger, multiculturalism, gender, labor and production, health, education, LGBT rights, economic opportunity, sexual violence, class, religious difference, environmental sustainability—OTC will allow students, faculty, and staff to dialogue on the larger questions of social responsibility, global citizenship, and the ever-widening, ever-constricting local global nexus.

For information on Open Teaching Concept, please e-mail crosscultural@ttu.edu.

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Posted:
10/22/2014

Originator:
Nathian Rodriguez

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Department:
Media and Communication

Event Information
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Date: 10/22/2014

Location:
EDUC 350


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