The hypocrisy of community-engaged research (opinion)
Evelyn Vázquez writes that white saviorism often drives community-engaged research in the neoliberal university—and offers suggestions for how to change this. Any critique about the neoliberal university ought to confront and acknowledge its colonial roots. Victoria Reyes, in her book Academic Outsider (Stanford University Press, 2022), highlights that higher education was never designed for the global majority, particularly people of color from low-income backgrounds.
