Add/Drop Education

Thoughts:

So for my intervention project I wanted to critique the educational system here at UCI. I wanted to get to students that their education is exactly that “their education”. Students take classes sometimes merely for the fact that they need a course with expectation that it is easy. Students need to realize they need to take the class to learn something. Unfortunately in our society education is not free and students pay a premium to receive it and yet many students do not treat it as so. I believe the UC system has also forgotten the fact its purpose is to teach. By raising tuition and making education inaccessible to individuals who are willing to learn our society suffers. We all suffer by our lack of knowledge and responsibility. Through my work I hope people can find these and take a little time to reflect on education and what it stands for to them.

Process:

The process for which I intended to intervene was by taking add/drop cards from the main office and writing witty statements to make students second think what they are about to do. Whether it is adding a class or dropping one we all need to stop and think. Are the classes we taking important to us or are we just taking them to fulfill a requirement, do we want to genuinely learn or simply pass, do we have control of our education or are we being sold what take. I made my message through filling out the information side of the card and attempted to make them plausible in terms of filling them out.

How-To

To replicate this intervention one needs to get any formal forms that are used at their school such as add/drop cards. Look at what information is required to fill the form and come up with clever and amusing ways to complete it while critiquing the institutions they are focused on. Be creative. Be direct.

Note:

Due to bad timing and the coming of the digital age Add/Drop cards were removed from the office as most course corrections will be done online from now on. I no longer was able to place my work in the designated boxes but instead left them around campus in hopes people would read them and still have the same effect.