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Bowman's decision to redshirt the entire ASU swimming & diving team this year seems like a responsible decision, esp. given the lack of a coherent federal govt response & NCAA leadership. BUT it can't be seen outside of.... 1/6 https://thesundevils.com/news/2020/7/26/mens-swimming-diving-sun-devil-swimming-diving-to-focus-on-2021-22-redshirt-rosters-in-2020-21.aspx
...ASU's expansion into online spaces over the last decade. They've partnered w/ corporations (like Starbucks & adidas) in practices that have both expanded access to education for folks but also exacerbated privatizing processes that often, as Henry Giroux (2007) argues,...
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...can lead University's to run as for-profit entities rather than as public goods. So, their already-in-place online infrastructure makes this responsible decision more possible, but we need to consider it w/in broader contexts of the corporate neoliberal University. 
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2019: Arizona State creates another company partnership, called Cintana Education and led by the founder of for-profit Laureate Education network, to work with universities in other countries to expand online and campus programs.
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ASU partners with Starbucks, creating the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
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https://starbucks.asu.edu/
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https://starbucks.asu.edu/
"the marketing strategies enshrined in full-program contracts are helping to reconfigure, both materially and ideologically, the culture of the university as part of a broader shift toward a branded, privatized society" (King, 2012, p. 76).
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6/6 https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2019/03/20/asus-apparel-deal-is-one-of-the-33-biggest.html
