Reimagining Higher Education Through Socially Engaged Art

https://hyperallergic.com/579853/reimagining-higher-education-through-socially-engaged-art/

How can higher education be reimagined in the aftermath of Covid-19? Can teachers, students, policy makers, and the public collectively envision a new concept of formalized learning that is even better than what existed before the pandemic and its ruinous economic state of emergency? Or will we henceforth be forced to Zoom our classes online as the already fragile infrastructure of higher education is sold off, brick by brick, for privatized, corporate profit? What will it take to repair the disastrous social disorder wrought by years and years of neoliberal, winner-takes-all policies that have suddenly become visible in all their grotesque opportunism?

Why art? Because artists are frequently compelled to manage economic precariousness using skills and strategies that  lead to imaginative life-preserving solutions which can ultimately play a central role in rebuilding the post-pandemic educational system.