What can we do as educational and cultural workers,
at this
crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and
students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?
Throughout college there are several
crucial moments that can put a
student at risk of leaving school; conversely, there are some key behaviors that keep a
student on the path to graduation.