There's the question of equitability, who's in a position of power, who gets
paid and how much. 

Academe now sees a golden opportunity to capitalize on communities which, in
their opinion, need research done and yet are incapable of doing it
themselves - which blends in well with the current flavour-of-the-month,
"building community capacity." The latter is the same kind of
underestimation for academic gain. Most community organizations and
marginalized groups ALREADY have capacity. They just need $$. Even
'capacity' is inequitably defined by universities. 

The whole funding scenario in and of itself separates the so-called
knowledge brokers from community culture. It truly is divide and conquer,
exalt and demean, in virtue of the power of money and the power of framing.

As someone from the margins, I have been in both worlds - slogging away at
the community level and aspiring to the lofty and presumed unimpeachable
heights of the ivory tower. It took about two years on a university campus
for the rose-coloured glasses to start to fade. I persevered - thought it
was just me - and went on to graduate work. Found I had company. Changed
universities and began pursuing the doctorate. More company. Changed
universities again. More graduates expressing the same disillusionment:
university was too detached from reality and the consequences of its
(non)actions. Ironically, one of my majors was Philosophy, of which Ethics
is a major field. The disconnect was too much for me. I left.

Ocean

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