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Bachelor's degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it's getting worse
by admin | Jan 6, 2023 | IPGCE
WARWICK, R.I. — Anne-Marie Jean-Louis is just getting started toward her bachelor's degree in biology with the goal of eventually getting a graduate degree in neuroscience.
This story also appeared in The Washington Post
That's a long slog in the best of circumstances. And Jean-Louis is starting out at a community college with plans to transfer to a four-year university, making it likely to take even longer.
On paper, starting at a community college is a great idea. Community colleges typically have open admission and are comparatively cheap or even free. Four out of five students who begin at a community college say they plan to transfer and eventually earn a bachelor's degree or higher.
But in one of the most persistent failings of the higher education system, only about one in six of them actually succeed — and even fewer than that at the Community College of Rhode Island, which Jean-Louis attends.
Anne-Marie Jean-Louis, a 26-year-old Navy veteran starting her education at the Community College of Rhode Island. Jean-Louis hopes to transfer and get a bachelor's and eventually a graduate degree in neuroscience. "I don't want to waste my time," she says. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
They get lost in a process for which colleges and universities often offer little guidance, causing students to waste time and money earning credits that don't count toward a bachelor's degree. That not only thwarts the aspirations of students and their families; it also adds costs for the state and federal taxpayers who subsidize their educations.
And new figures show that, rather than improving, the problem has been getting worse.
The already low proportion of students who transfer from community colleges to bachelor's degree-granting universities fell by about 10 percent over the last two years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The decline is even bigger for Black students (down 14 percent) and men (down 12 percent).
Bless Bartuah, a student at the Community College of Rhode Island who hopes to eventually transfer and get a bachelor's degree in engineering. "I don't want to be in school forever," he says. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
"We screw transfer students, and we especially screw the ones that don't have access to the social and educational capital they need to navigate" the process, said John Fink, senior research associate at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, who studies the transfer process. (The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is an independent unit of Teachers College.)
The transfer decline is in part a result of the big drop in the number of people going to college at all, leaving fewer of them to move from one campus to another. Enrollment at community colleges has taken a particular hit, down 5.4 percent in the last two years.
But that explains only about half the problem. Experts also cite intensifying public skepticism about the value of a degree and the cost of getting one, which has soured many people on the idea of higher education — and community college students on the prospect of going further.
Related: A new way to help college students transfer: Admit them to two schools at once
Another major culprit is a system that's extremely tough to navigate, and for which students get little help. Transfer students continue to "face an uphill battle as they contend with unclear information and insufficient guidance on this complex process," a new report by the higher education consulting firm HCM Strategists says. "Such dismal outcomes and rife inefficiency should be a wake-up call to us all."
Jean-Louis spends much of her free time emailing department chairs at universities to which she'd like to transfer, checking to make sure she is taking the right courses. "I don't want to waste my time," she said as she prepared for finals, bent over graph paper in the high-ceilinged Community College of Rhode Island cafeteria.
Even when a four-year university accepts community college credits, those credits may not apply to the student's intended major.
"I'll be honest: The process is difficult," Jean-Louis, a 26-year-old Navy veteran, said. "It is confusing. If I didn't have this goal, it would be very hard."
None of these problems are new. But despite more than a decade of calls for improvement, there remain a myriad of barriers.
Progress "has been kind of stuck," Fink said. "Then you're laying the pandemic on top of this, and it's just moving in the wrong direction."
The Community College of Rhode Island. The school is part of a coalition of 32 community colleges and 32 four-year universities nationwide trying to find new ways to clear the transfer minefield. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
The Community College of Rhode Island, or CCRI, is part of a new coalition of 32 community colleges and 32 four-year universities nationwide trying to find new ways to clear the transfer minefield, as part of a two-year project to test solutions, led by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program.
CCRI has hired a full-time transfer coordinator and started a program called the Joint Admissions Agreement under which its students are conditionally guaranteed eventual admission to the public Rhode Island College or the University of Rhode Island (URI), with a sliding scale of tuition discounts based on their grade-point averages. CCRI itself already offers free tuition for two years for Rhode Islanders who enroll right after high school and maintain a certain GPA.
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Students who participate in the joint admission program are required to meet with transfer advisers each semester. They also get access to software that tracks their academic progress.
"There's a clear path of exactly the courses you need to take and when you need to take them," said Greg LaPointe, the college's vice president for student affairs and chief outcomes officer.
Bryanna Lyons, a student at the Community College of Rhode Island who has signed up for a program to help her transfer to a four-year university for a bachelor's degree. "It's really hard to figure out if someone doesn't tell you how to do it," she says of the process. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
Last year, 136 entering students signed up, from among CCRI's enrollment of nearly 12,000, LaPointe said. This year, after a $150,000 marketing and advertising push, he said, 694 did.
Bryanna Lyons, a first-year student majoring in human development and family studies, is one of them. She shook her head and laughed when asked if she could figure out the transfer process — she plans to go to URI and ultimately become a teacher — without the help of an adviser. "No," she said. "It's really hard to figure out if someone doesn't tell you how to do it."
Another, Roberto Martin Catoni, always wanted to go to URI, but his grades in high school fell short. "I thought this would be a fresh start," he said of enrolling at CCRI with the intention of eventually transferring into URI's computer science and electrical engineering major.
Without help from an adviser, though, "you have three different documents that are 100 pages long, and you're going to have to look through all those 300 pages" to make sure the classes and credits sync up, he said of the course catalogues at the community college and the two public universities. "It would take a lot more time."
That this kind of transfer advising was not available before, said CCRI President Meghan Hughes — and is still rare at other community colleges — is "outrageous and unacceptable."
Students who struggle to transfer, she said, often find "a lack of momentum, a loss of money and a sense that they're never going to get to the top of the hill they're climbing," Hughes said.
When CCRI began to work on the transfer process, it found that 42 percent of its 270 general education courses weren't accepted for credit by the state's two public universities, said Rosemary Costigan, vice president for academic affairs and herself a CCRI graduate. It has since cut the number of these courses almost in half, she said, and 95 percent of the ones that are left are accepted for transfer credit by URI and Rhode Island College.
Meghan Hughes, president of the Community College of Rhode Island, which is trying to improve its proportion of students who go on to get bachelor's degrees. That the kind of support they need was not available before, she says, is "outrageous and unacceptable." Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
Greg LaPointe, vice president for student affairs and chief outcomes officer at the Community College of Rhode Island. LaPointe says that 136 entering students signed up last year for a program to help them transfer and get bachelor's degrees. This year, 694 did. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
Rosemary Costigan, vice president for academic affairs at the Community College of Rhode Island. "If you're a young person and the first in your family to go to college, there's a lot of hoops you need to jump through," Costigan says. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
One of the problems was that the institutions hadn't always talked to each other. "Even in this small state, we've encountered that," Costigan said.
Another is the idea that higher education in general "is survival of the fittest," she said. Students are often left to figure out the transfer process on their own. "If you're a young person and the first in your family to go to college," Costigan said, "there's a lot of hoops you need to jump through."
Hughes said she's heard other higher education leaders dismiss low transfer success rates by saying that college is not for everybody. What they really mean, she said, is that college is not designed for everybody — notably, the disproportionately low-income, first-generation, Black and Hispanic students served by community colleges.
Related: One university has a new college specifically to re-enroll adults who had dropped out
Black and Hispanic students are half as likely to transfer as white students, and lower-income students half as likely as higher-income ones, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports. That contributes to the fact that only 28 percent of Black and 21 percent of Hispanic adults have bachelor's degrees, according to the Census Bureau, compared to 42 percent of white adults.
And yet a bachelor's degree is "crucial" to getting a "good job" — meaning one with a salary of at least $35,000—the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce estimates.
"What's promising is the potential [of transfer] to reverse historical inequities in who has bachelor's degrees in this country," said Fink, the researcher who studies the transfer process. "But right now, it's just replicating those inequities."
Four out of five students who start at a community college say they plan to transfer and eventually earn a bachelor's degree or higher. Only about one in six of them do, and the proportion continues to fall.
Improving the transfer route from community colleges to four-year universities would result in 9 million more Black and nearly 8 million more Hispanic bachelor's degree holders, the Aspen Institute estimates.
Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, in September introduced the Transparency for Transfer Students Act, requiring transfer credit policies to be clearly disclosed on college and university websites.
Other groups have also started working on this problem, including the Scaling Partners Network, backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has issued a call to action to improve the transfer process. (Gates is among the financial supporters of The Hechinger Report.)
The Gates initiative includes the American Association of Community Colleges, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and other organizations whose members are among the institutions where students have long faced transfer hurdles.
Related: Most college students don't graduate in four years, so colleges and the government count six years as "success"
Many of those institutions are now facing sharp declines in enrollment, and see transfer students as much-needed tuition-paying customers.
Several four-year schools have entered into "dual-admission" agreements with community colleges to streamline transfer, admitting students to two- and four-year institutions at the same time and providing advising to help them transfer from one to another.
These agreements include the New England Transfer Guarantee, set up by the New England Board of Higher Education in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which guarantees community college students conditional transfer admission to participating four-year universities. The program will next expand to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Universities and colleges in the Northeast face among the nation's most severe enrollment challenges.
Some of the marketing materials produced by the Community College of Rhode Island to promote a program meant to make it easier for students to transfer and get bachelor's degrees — something fewer than one in 10 students at the college do now. Credit: Sophie Park for The Hechinger Report
In its first three semesters (two in Rhode Island, which joined later), the guarantee helped an average of about 100 students per semester transfer in Massachusetts, 40 per semester in Connecticut and eight per semester in Rhode Island, a new report shows.
Twelve Minnesota private colleges in October also launched a transfer admission guarantee for community college students.
In addition to enrollment woes, public universities in some states are facing funding pressures as legislatures tie their budget allocations not to the number of students they admit, as in the past, but to how many graduate. This, too, is helping bring attention to the transfer problem, said Connie Richardson, manager of higher education course services at the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the partners in the Gates coalition.
"Institutions are really starting to look at, 'Where are we losing students?' " Richardson said. They're realizing that rejecting students' transfer credits "is counterproductive and they can actually do better by working together."
Back at CCRI, student Bless Bartuah is resuming his education after starting at URI, where he lost his financial aid and was forced to withdraw. Since he couldn't pay for all his courses, he said, the university withheld his transcript and he's had to start again from scratch.
"This is me taking another chance on myself," said Bartuah, who hopes to eventually transfer, get a bachelor's degree in engineering and pursue a career in robotics.
He said he is working with advisers to be absolutely sure he takes only the courses that will successfully transfer.
"I don't want to be in school forever," he said.
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At Christie's inauguration, Bennett didn't sit with the former governors
By wallye • 01/19/10 7:59pm
One difference between the previous Democratic administration and the new Republican one: only former governors get to sit up front. That could mean an end to the frequent triumphant returns of John Bennett, who has parlayed his 3 ½ days as Acting Governor into a seat with the other governors at State of the State and Budget addresses. At today's inauguration, Bennett, the former Co-Senate President, sat in the general admission seats; former governors who were elected by the voters sat on stage, along with Donald DiFrancesco and Richard Codey, who are legally accorded former governor status because of the length of their service. It's possible that Bennett has now spent more time sitting with the former governors than he did being governor.
Bennett spent 84 hours as Acting Governor between the end of DiFrancesco's term and the inauguration of James E. McGreevey in January 2002. Democrats and Republicans each held twenty Senate seats, and as a result of the shared control, Bennett and Codey each shared the week. Bennett, who lost his State Senate seat amidst ethical allegations in 2003 (he later got one of those much-coveted clearance letters from U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie), made the most of his term: he moved into Drumthwacket, purchased ceremonial pens, and even pardoned a campaign contributor. A biography on his law firm website notes that he is a former Acting Governor of New Jersey.
The definitive historical analysis of Bennett's administration was written by the New York Times' David Kocieniewski a few days after his governorship ended and remains a must-read:
The Hours of Power Of an Acting Governor; Deconstructing Bennett's 3-Day Legacy
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
It seems like only yesterday that John O. Bennett, New Jersey's departing acting governor, placed one hand on a Bible, the other in the air, and was sworn in as the state's chief executive.
Actually, it was three days ago — the blink of an eye in geological time, but an eternity to a leader like Mr. Bennett, determined to leave his stamp on an office that catapulted politicians like Woodrow Wilson and Christie Whitman to national prominence.
So as the Bennett era finally drew to a close today, after an 84-hour whirlwind of activity, historians and elected officials alike were scrambling to define his legacy.
Skeptics might be inclined to dismiss a three-day governorship — especially because Mr. Bennett was one of three men to serve as New Jersey's acting governor during the eight-day period before James E. McGreevey begins his four-year term on Tuesday.
With the New Jersey Senate split 20-20, Mr. Bennett, a Republican, and Richard J. Codey, a Democrat, will split the time as acting governor in the period between last Tuesday, when Donald T. DiFrancsco stepped down as acting governor and Mr. McGreevey's swearing-in.
Mr. Bennett, who carries himself with the measured exuberance of a high school yearbook adviser, might have been forgiven for taking a timid approach to a job whose rotating cast of characters led some pundits to compare New Jersey's political stability unfavorably to Argentina's. But if uncertain times call for self-assured leaders, Mr. Bennett excelled, veteran statehouse observers agree.
Indeed, experts say he governed as though he had won a mandate from the state's nine million residents. He delivered the State of the State address that served as a victory lap for the Republicans' 10 years in power in Trenton, started important-sounding programs like the Sustainable State Initiative, and with his wife, Acting First Lady Margaret Bennett, toured New Jersey like a conquering Caesar visiting the provinces.
In fact, some political analysts suspect that Mr. Bennett, who has served in the State Legislature since 1980, may be best remembered for his sheer energy. Rather than policies and appointments — since he had no time for either — Mr. Bennett's era was characterized by enthusiastic barnstorming. Mr. Bennett's public schedule — one was issued daily for himself and his wife — was packed with bill signings, school visits and ribbon-cuttings. He turned Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion, into a beehive of social frivolities. He even wore a hard hat, climbed aboard a back-loader and helped raze an abandoned building in a blighted section of Camden.
"From the moment he came until the moment he left, it was a blur," said Cliff Zukin, a professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. "He handled that job like there was no tomorrow."
Mr. Bennett was so eager to begin his reign that he started two days early. Mr. DiFrancesco, a Republican who was acting governor from the day Mrs. Whitman left office last January until Tuesday, gave Mr. Bennett the keys to the governor's mansion ahead of schedule, so he could hold a double engagement party for his two daughters Sunday. A product of the hard-knuckle politics and infighting that has rattled New Jersey Republicans since Mrs. Whitman's departure, Mr. Bennett repaid that favor by refusing Mr. DiFrancesco's request to deliver the State of the State Address.
But if the State of the State signaled the farewell for New Jersey's Republicans, it was only a starting gun for Mr. Bennett's administration. Highlights included visiting schools in Green Brook and Basking Ridge, a bill-signing near his home in Marlboro Township and taping the governor's weekly radio address about an issue close to his heart, state services for the disabled.
As if that were not enough, Mrs. Bennett, a nurse, toured hospitals and nursing schools, and even made a ceremonial visit to their daughter Caitlin's third-grade class in the Laura Donovan Elementary School in Freehold.
The crescendo came today, when Mr. Bennett took action on some of the most important issues facing New Jersey: allocating $9,200 to pay the legal bills of two state troopers who testified at the State Senate's racial profiling hearings last year, and signing one bill that established a scholarship for survivors of World Trade Center victims. He also used the line-item veto to help ease the state's deficit.
For all those accomplishments, however, some political observers suspect that Mr. Bennett is likely to be recalled most fondly for the things he did not do.
"How many governors can say they left office without ever vetoing a bill, or having a veto overridden," said Tom Wilson, a spokesman for Mr. DiFrancesco. "And how many governors can say they never raised a single tax?"
Mr. Bennett's frenetic tenure expires at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and his successor, Mr. Codey, promised to be a little more tongue-in-cheek during his three days as acting governor. He plans to have breakfast with patients at Graystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, coach a basketball game for his son's junior high school team Saturday afternoon and to watch as his older son plays a high school game at night. Mr. Codey said he would also sign a few bills and ask the treasurer to certify the State of New Jersey's finances.
When Mr. McGreevey is sworn in, Mr. Bennett and Mr. Codey will return to the Senate, where they will serve as co-presidents because of the split chamber.
It is too early to determine what verdict history will pass on the Bennett hours, according to Marc Mappen, executive director of the New Jersey Historical Commission.
While Mr. Bennett's achievements might not match those of Woodrow Wilson or New Jersey's other towering governors, he clearly avoided the indignities that befell Lord Edward Cornbury — appointed colonial governor by the British in 1703, and remembered for wearing women's clothing and taking the first recorded bribe in New Jersey history.
Instead, when duty called and asked John O. Bennett to be the 50 1/2 governor, he did not fail to take his job seriously.
"I actually feel you can accomplish something by having a pulpit to be able to reach out and speak out," he said.
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
McNary High School's commencement speakers made a fortuitous pairing.
Brigadier General Daniel Hokanson, who returned to Keizer from Colorado to deliver the keynote, spoke of the value of character as they embark on the next part of their journey, and senior speaker Hugo Nicolas spoke of the things he'd learned from the character of his classmates.
More than 430 McNary seniors graduated from high school in a commencement ceremony that took place Friday, June 10, at the Pavilion on the State Fairgrounds in Salem.
"Your personal character plays a fundamental role in who you are and who you become, and needs to be held to the utmost regard. It dictates not only how others view you, but how you view yourself," Hokanson said.
Hokanson recalled two recent examples of exemplary character, one of a solider, Jeff, who lost part of his hand and arm in Iraq, and another, Travis, who helped execute a late-night rescue of two stranded kayakers.
"Travis knew the the circumstances, but his decision had been made long before that night. On that night what he chose to stand for allowed him to save two strangers who desperately needed help," Hokanson said.
Character isn't built, Hokanson said, but revealed under circumstances that come without warning.
"Your character will guide you and determine how these circumstances will guide you," he said. "[Character is revealed] in those who experience failure and never give up who they are. When all is said and done, your character may be all you have. It will determine what you leave behind."
Nicolas, who spoke prior to Hokanson touched on similar themes.
"Whatever human beings have accomplished from the beginning of time, that's how powerful we can be. Let's all take part in it, let's not fear. Don't you want to be the one that said I did this and I was there so that one day we stand together and tell people 'we did' rather than 'yes we can?'" Nicolas challenged the graduating Celtics.
He also offered a nod to all those who supported the graduates along their journey to the graduation stage.
"The reason we're sitting here is because someone, somewhere stood up for us when it wasn't easy. They had courage and a clear purpose, they are our parents and teachers," he said. "The only difference between possible and impossible is how bad you want it."
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*Thesis Three: Postcolonialism's critique of the nation-state remains inadequate
Posted on December 13, 2010 by Vinay Lal
The nation-state is the only game in town; and, since we only have a conception of finite games, this game has winners and losers. (As an aside, it is not accidental that the United Stats, which embodies the idea of the nation-state as well as any other country, remains incapable of comprehending games that are not finite. 'Finite' and 'infinite' games, as James Carse has deployed those terms, go well beyond games as those are ordinarily understood, but for our purposes the literal examples of games [as in sports] will suffice beautifully. American games, among them basketball, football, and baseball, cannot countenance the possibility of a draw: a draw is not an acceptable 'result', and if the score is tied at the end of regulation play, the games goes into over-time, and if necessary into double and triple over-time. Cricket offers the greatest contrast: Americans are among those who are gravely puzzled by a game that, in its ideal version, could last five days and end, as was more often the case than not, in a draw. Cricket in its classic test match version has long seemed to be a game where the killer instinct could not be exercised.) In this scenario of finite games, a nation-state advances at the cost of another nation-state. These nation-states [or, in the awkward grammatical version, nations-state] exist in a highly hierarchical relationship to each other, an idea equally to be encountered in the very apotheosis of the nation-state, namely the United Nations (where, as is transparent, the General Assembly that in principle deems all nations to be equal is wholly subservient to the wholly undemocratic organ known as the Security Council).
Well-meaning people like to speak of win-win situations, and hope for such outcomes, but the relentless logic of the nation-state permits no easy consolations. One modern narrative, about the renewed ascendancy of China and India, shows as clearly as anything else how modern political discourse has succumbed entirely to the zero-sum politics of our times. A prolific literature, which we can see multiplying before our eyes, adverts to various aspects of the race between the two countries. The only points of comparison seem to revolve around the number of new cell phone connections, the amount of foreign exchange reserves, the share of each country in world exports, the growth of domestic product, the growth of the automobile culture, rapidly expanding consumer markets, and the like. To be sure, such discussions are leavened by apparently more sophisticated considerations, such as whether India is, in comparison with China, disadvantaged by restraints on growth placed by adherence, however nominal, to democratic freedoms, or whether China's one-child policy will work to its detriment as its population ages at a much faster rate than is the case in India. Those interested in geopolitical considerations have taken this narrative further, comparing and contrasting the growing reach of India and especially China throughout Africa. If the Chinese are tapping the mineral wealth of Africa at an astronomical rate, Indian telecommunications giants such as Airtel have also made spectacular inroads.
In these comparisons between India and China, the illustration I have taken (and discussed as a particular kind of modernist discourse in an article published two year ago), any reference to the fact that India and China long enjoyed civilizational ties before they knew each other as nation-states is dismissed as nostalgia or soft-headed romanticism. The hostility to civilizational discourses in Marxism is well known, but postcolonial scholars have held a similarly corrosive view of civilizational languages and have not permitted civilizational frameworks to shape their arguments. Tagore's views, expressed in his manifesto on nationalism in 1917, are instructive in this regard. He was obviously not unaware of the oppression wrought in the name of civilization, and nearly everyone with a modicum of awareness of colonial histories recognizes that the idea of 'civilizing mission' served to keep some people in a state of submission. Nevertheless, Tagore also understood that 'civilization' offered the only countervailing force to the nation-state. The 'Nation of the West' was Tagore's quaint if brilliant term to convey the idea that every nation, not merely those in Western Europe, will be made in the image of the nation-state as it emerged in the West: civilizations vary immensely, but the nation-state demands homogeneity not only within but in its very form. Modern civilization is a strange thing, Gandhi opined in 'Hind Swaraj', but stranger still was the nation-state. Civilizations are less insistent on homogeneity and more accommodating, in various ways, to ideas of plurality, diversity, and difference.
The civilizational framework may be important as it furnishes cues on how to think about such notions as 'cosmopolitanism', 'citizenship', and the 'commons'. The best of liberal discourse on citizenship seems positively anemic, operating, even after policy prescriptions are given full consideration, at a level of abstraction which says little about how, say, workers inhabit the condition of dwellers at home, in the workplace, and in the myriad pubic spheres of the nation. The discourse of cosmopolitanism – "citizen of the earth", to return to the term's Greek roots – may be afflicted with similar problems, judging from the literature on 'world cities' that has been generated in recent years. It may be argued that the idea of 'world cities' should be warmly embraced, if for no other reason that it shows a way out of the iron grip of the nation-state. What new hierarchies, we may then ask, are established? How does the present conception of world cities differ substantively from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century web of cities criss-crossed by imperialist and nationalist elites alike? Do contemporary notions of citizenship offer a more expansive conception of hospitality and mode for thinking about, in Appiah's phrase, 'ethics in a world of strangers'?
See also related posts:
Thesis Four – Nonviolence: A Gaping Hole in Postcolonial Thought
*Thesis Two: Postcolonialism has had nothing to say about the imperialism of categories
*Thesis One: Postcolonialism never mounted an effective critique of history
*The Politics of Culture and Knowledge after Postcolonialism: Nine Theses (and a Prologue)
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7 thoughts on "*Thesis Three: Postcolonialism's critique of the nation-state remains inadequate"
vivek on December 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM said:
'Nevertheless, Tagore also understood that 'civilization' offered the only countervailing force to the nation-state.'
This caught my eye.
I'm not sure about 'infinite games'- why not simply say meta-games or explicitly mention mechanism design? On the other hand, we Indians have a long tradition of using Game Theory to fuck ourselves up big time. Indeed, in the Mahabharata, King Yuddhishtra , the incarnation of Dharma, overcomes his 'Vishada' (depression- just as in the Gita, Arjuna overcomes his Vishada with Lord Krishna's help) by learning probability based Game Theory (vide http://socioproctology.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-everybody-is-wrong-about-bhagvad.html) but, as in the Chandogya Upanishad when the Samans learn the Politically Correct theory of their Veda, the result is hilariously horrible.
Romer's Charter Cities ('World Cities'), I agree, are utterly risible vide- http://socioproctology.blogspot.com/2009/11/romer-demolished-in-day.html and Economists who did increasing returns (this would make them at least proto-'Civilizational', in your terminology- rather than punitively Marxist or Marginalist) back in the 70's and 80's almost always ended up touting a panacea their own work ought to have warned them against.
Perhaps there is a wider failure here than we are prepared to recognize…
The fact is countervailing powers to the Nation-State have always existed, it was just that the First World War, operating on Railway Time Tables, really screwed things up. Proust's Guermantes were supposed to be one sort of countervailing power- owning castles in the enemy country and intermarrying within a Pan European Almanach de Gotha- but they failed to justify their existence when the crunch came. The Socialists, like Bethman-Hollweg, screwed up even worse- though I suppose one could make a case for 'the labor aristocracy' taking the military industrial state as vehicle to class power or something like that.
The Second World War and, later, the Ideological War, froze things up in a manner which seemed to follow from the logic of the Nation-State but which actually arose in an incredibly silly manner. This, then, was the pre-fabricated mold into which the molten lava of the Post Colonial State was poured. An aberration, simply- nothing to do with the logic of history or the nature of industrial capitalism.
Tagore's sanity, it seems to me, arose from the fact that he was an actual landlord- he noticed that the rising 'kulaks' were more vicious in their methods than his own henchmen. Moreover, big landlords had an incentive to put down communal strife. Mahararajas had an incentive not to fuck up their own capital cities. These weren't particularly intelligent people by any means but 'incentive compatibility' obtained.
As for, the 'more expansive conception of hospitality and thinking' you call for- yeah, that would be great, except…urm… could it please link up with McMansions for my idiot kids in some way? And don't say they have to go to Iraqistan to fight them towel-heads. That's a deal breaker.
Still the question remains. What are people like us supposed to do with our idiot kids- Subaltern Studies seemed safe because it would take them decades to figure out that Subaltern meant 'Poor people'- and now you're taking a hatchet to Post Colonial whining- what is left? Please don't say Queer Theory and Leela Gandhian xenophilia. After all, at some point, grandchildren would be nice.
Vinay Lal on December 13, 2010 at 6:32 PM said:
Hello Vivek, The games to which I refer have no relationship to Game Theory; in fact, 'infinite games' are the very antithesis of
any economistic conception. 'Mechanism design' already takes us to a bureaucratic, managerial, and 'operations
research' view of the world, the last thing I have in mind. Your humor and insights are appreciated but a response
to everything would require several long posts, so I'll take a pass, at least for the present. Vinay
vic on December 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM said:
I must admit I still haven't got over an adolescent crush on Game theory- though Prof. Binmore did very kindly explain to me it wasn't actually about hide & seek.
Still, Appiah's 'the honor code' is very funny. Perhaps it's a case of Bryanston casting a long shadow. Or maybe it's an American thing- I wouldn't understand.
Rohit on February 26, 2011 at 10:18 AM said:
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Q on May 6, 2011 at 3:24 AM said:
It's interesting that you juxtapose civilizations with nation-states and suggest that the former is more accommodating to "ideas of plurality, diversity, and difference." While there's something compelling about that, I'm extremely skeptical of a civilizational framework, considering that civilizations don't have innocuous borders either, at least not historically. So I want to ask you: 1. What'd a civilizational map of the world look like from your perspective? Who and what'd you think of as civilizations in the world? What distinguishes different civilizations? 2. Is there a difference between "civilization" and "culture" in your use of the term?
zehra on November 20, 2019 at 2:03 AM said:
I agree about "civilization" being important for India to contrast with nation state. Am worried about extending it worldwide though. You have referred to problems of "western civilization" and how it has been oppressive. What about those who never have been allowed to think of themselves as "civilization" such as Africans? Even in Indian civilization there have been some Indians such as tribal people who have been excluded from civilizational idea of India. My humble thoughts.
Vinay Lal on November 22, 2019 at 7:04 PM said:
As you write, the idea of 'civilization' has also been used to create hierarchies and suppress people. After all, as we all know, the Europeans claimed they were on a civilizing mission in Asia and Africa. But no one word such as 'civilization' has a singular history. The word civilization has other histories, and those histories suggest the idea of civilization is much deeper and is far more accommodating of "difference" than the idea of the nation-state. But I also agree with you that in India the history of civilization was deployed to create hierarchies between caste society and the adivasis, just as I would agree that the treatment of adivasis in India is deplorable.


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Q: Django: How to get a person whose birthday is today from a database? Good afternoon, I recently started programming with Django and there was a slight difficulty with displaying the date of birth of a person whose birthday is today from the database, can anyone come across this?
model.py
class HapB(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField('Имя', max_length=50)
    last_n = models.CharField('Фамилия', max_length=50)
    Otdel = models.CharField('Отдел', max_length=50)
    date_of_birth = models.DateField('Дата рождения', null=True, blank=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

A: I think the best and the simplest approach is this:
from django.utils import timezone

HapB.objects.filter(date_of_birth__day=timezone.now().date().day, date_of_birth__day=timezone.now().date().month)

Or if your app is not timezone aware:
from datetime import datetime

HapB.objects.filter(date_of_birth__day=datetime.now().date().day, date_of_birth__month=datetime.now().date().month)

A: Can you try out
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, time

today = datetime.now().date()
tomorrow = today + timedelta(1)
today_start = datetime.combine(today, time())
today_end = datetime.combine(tomorrow, time())

HapB.objects.filter(date_of_birth__lte=today_end,date_of_birth__gte=today_start)

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RSpec.shared_examples_for 'Metasploit::Cache::Module::Ancestor factory loading' do |persister_class:|
  include_context 'Metasploit::Cache::Spec::Unload.unload'

  context 'Metasploit::Cache::Module::Ancestor::Load' do
    include_context 'ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging'

    subject(:module_ancestor_load) {
      Metasploit::Cache::Module::Ancestor::Load.new(
          logger: logger,
          maximum_version: 4,
          module_ancestor: module_ancestor,
          persister_class: persister_class
      )
    }

    it { is_expected.to be_valid }

    specify {
      expect {
        module_ancestor_load.valid?
      }.to change(described_class, :count).from(0).to(1)
    }
  end
end

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