GSST 191A Group 3 by Crystal Baik https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj Brainstorming! en-us 2018-10-05 23:18:53 UTC 2018-10-08 20:25:30 UTC hello@padlet.com paragraph in passage spark123 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290475416 Morrill Act universities are also charged with the research and development of land, particularly for agribusiness. Thus the university system, especially in the westward-expanding empire of the United States, is intimately underwritten as a project of settler colonialism—the seizing of Native land, the conversion of land into capital, the further domestication of “wilderness” into productive agricultural estates, and the research mandate to procure profitable plants from around the world to colonize North American soil. The public university, with its charge to underwrite industry and agribusiness, literally changed the landscape of the Americas:

]]> 2018-10-08 19:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290475416 Question vanessa_miranda001 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290475823 According to the K. Wayne Yang, why is land such a crucial element of the American university, an institution that the author explicity, defines as a settler colonial formation (refer here to the Morill Act)? Do you think the author analysis of land in relation to settler colonialism, dispossession and profit is useful, at all, to better understanding yout everyday experiences with the univ.? ]]> 2018-10-08 19:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290475823 from the same passage spark123 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478489 The year 1862 also saw the passage of the Homestead Act, which allowed for settlers to apply directly for landownership.]]> 2018-10-08 20:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478489 vanessa_miranda001 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478609 From the reading I understood that that Morill Act and Homestead Act had a big and important impact on the power people had on seizing the land. ]]> 2018-10-08 20:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478609 This passage encouraged me to question my own campus, UCR, and it made me realize how oblivious I was to how this university and many other universities obtain and manage their land, at the expense of others. jpine009 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478738 2018-10-08 20:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478738 cmage001 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478741 Dispossession of indigenous lands is the foundation of UCR, a land-grant institution. 

 ]]> 2018-10-08 20:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290478741 Made me realize in greater detail that land is such a crucial element because to the people that are deprived of it and their culture, they obtain resources that allow them to make a living for themselves. Furthermore, the people that are exploited by the violent acts of settler colonialism are deprived of their home and lose basically everything they had. vanessa_miranda001 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290479279 2018-10-08 20:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290479279 quote from reading mloer001 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290480150  Therefore land-grant universities are built not only on land but also from land ]]> 2018-10-08 20:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290480150 Morill Act spark123 https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290483419 Land-Grant College Act of 1862, or Morrill Act, Act of the U.S. Congress (1862) that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.”]]> 2018-10-08 20:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/crystal_baik/5lpfeuij9fpj/wish/290483419