Gcas Manifesto

Consequently, the following are the five tenets of educational reform to which GCAS is devoted:

1. Openness : Part of GCAS’s aim is to help make education and information accessible to everyone, wherever.

GCAS aspires to provide complimentary courses. Since we are a nonprofit and do not receive funding from large donors or government entities at this time, we must find other ways to pay for things like licensing, teacher salaries, website development and maintenance, and e-school development and upkeep. Tuition will decrease in tandem with these expenditures until we reach a sustainable point, at which point all courses will be offered for free. Additional monies will also be allocated to cover the expenditures associated with our accreditation efforts.

For instance, we are collaborating with numerous colleges to reduce operational expenses and submitting grant applications to reduce tuition rates. These funds should be used toward organizations and individuals who share our commitment to providing universal access to high-quality, free higher education. We can strengthen our strategy on both the local and global levels by enlisting the faculty’s assistance in staffing and coordinating high-quality seminars and programs at their respective locations.

People in prison, refugees, women in underdeveloped nations, and those fleeing conflict zones can all take advantage of GCAS’s free training. Students help pay for others who can’t afford it with the little amount they pay in tuition.

2. Working together: By embracing an inter-operational paradigm of higher education, GCAS ensures that students have access to illuminating lectures given by some of the most renowned thinkers and doers in the world.

GCAS is on the lookout for partnerships with educational institutions all around the globe so that it can provide seminars and courses in critical theory, political economy, psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy, global studies, and related fields for credit.

3. Working as a team: Students and instructors from all around the world are encouraged to work together at GCAS.

During intense (1-6 week) seminars, GCAS seminars aim to bring together professors and students from all over the globe to exchange their findings. In order to bring about change on a local level, the seminar style is designed to foster a more focused surge of intellectual engagement.

Fourth, a fair society. When it comes to social and environmental justice, GCAS has your back.

4.GCAS encourages: Its professors to discuss and organize around current political concerns. With any luck, it will be a meeting place and clearinghouse for academics and students to work together for environmental and social justice. Put differently, it is not interested in limiting the political expression of its faculty but rather in putting its theories into practice.

5. A Commons-Based Structure: A commons-based organization is important to GCAS.

We hold that GCAS’s production and maintenance resources should be owned and operated by the school’s teachers and students. Academic freedom, a sustainable, debt-free non-profit economic model, shared governance between students and faculty, and equality are the organizing principles.

We aim to challenge and derail the trend of higher education being turned into a commodity on a worldwide scale. Our goal is to challenge the widespread belief that schools should teach pupils nothing more than “marketable” skills that will help them find work in the global capitalist system. After all, technical employment are few in today’s capitalist world, so going into debt for a “managerial” degree isn’t a good idea. Not as a personal commodity tied to debt, but as a collective good that contributes to society’s benefit, education should be viewed as a route to emancipation.

No amount of originality or radicality can solve the problem of higher education; the problem persists regardless of the remedy. Still, we professors are well aware that we must organize in order to free ourselves from a system that neither financially supports nor “humanizes” our students in the fullest sense, much less serves their best interests.

We are not organizing to ensure our personal survival, but rather to safeguard the future of education in a society where it is fundamental. Our aim is to make education accessible to everyone as a public benefit.

That is why the Global Center for Advanced Studies will remain steadfast in the fight that it began.