Your tax dollars!-----San Diego State Wants Students to “Interrogate Capitalism”

The public university is using Mellon Foundation money to build “decolonized internships.” - John D. Sailer

• The “Building Decolonized Internship Pipelines” project, which SDSU launched last year, seeks to address a problem endemic to women’s, gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies (area studies) departments: their students are routinely underemployed.

“Our alumni are slower to receive promotions and many graduates remain underemployed, working part-time positions,”...

These former students’ failures supposedly stem from a “deficit model,” whereby employers see area-studies students “as inherently unwilling or uncapable [sic] of participating in the hegemonic workforce.”
To address this perception—and presumably, to improve students’ chances at gainful employment—the project proposes an unconventional approach: applying decolonial ideology...