UKdub In Canterbury, England: Teaching at Canterbury, Winter Term, 2015

Each class has a team who together teach, lecture, tutor, and double mark students' work. Directories are syllabi, tutors are faculty, and the issue of exploitation of adjuncts is shared yet Canterbury adjuncts each have universal healthcare, second best in world with fully healthcare equality. On average, two papers each class are expected for completion of the course, and a paper is turned in two ways: paper turned in online within Blackboard and paper turned in hard copy. The hard copy requires a 'cleared from plagerism' receipt, turned in with paper. The student at Canterbury is the agent of her learning. It is the students' duty to learn. That's it! No scores for attendance. No scores for participation. No tests. No quizzes. Just teaching. Just learning. The administration is not in the faculty's academies. The faculty have full respect and ownership to the classes. It is a Harry Potter experience in seeing and feeling CCCU tutors, professors teaching and walking on the grounds of ancient ancestral domain to Christianity of 437 AD.

In comparison to the Illinois community college middle class student, CCCU too, projects a middle class set of values, demographics, accents and of students. Both sets of students get out of bed, chase after girls, boys and many more, confront how to make the world better than ancient royal and political histories of destructions, put cell phones first and make rules as they go. Both sets of students want to be a better set of citizens than those who studied before them in these places. But, students don't understand how to keep and understand the college dreams of today to their distant predictable, content hearts of lonely workers in minds of forty-somethings. How to keep the passion and love from rolling away from a set of spirited, dreaming students to a perennial established set of ways to preserve and mainten status quo. Yet, just in this matter of time, I stand in CCCU classrooms where students roll and try to catch this time of a lesson on killings of black men and black boys by cops in America, from the USA professor.

This is the time to teach what is of courage, of wasted and current and corrupt answers to past problems and to teach histories that are not their fault, with their hearts of conviction on the line of tomorrows, of yet to be. A visiting professor of sociology focusing on US racism and race relations at Canterbury, reports what is 'f*cked up at this time'. The problems that were made in the USA on killings of black men and of black children by cops makes the UK student tremble. A hush and a cry of 'so sorry' whispers from the back of the classroom as they witness the youtube killing of twelve year old Tamir Rice. 'Whose fault is this?', ask the unaware CCCU students blind to the USA three hundred fifty years of harsh, complicated race relations in the country they believe to be one of the most democratic and richest in the world with a wealth of blue skies, land, largest lakes and mountains. But after discussion, the belief is expressed more for the victims and families taken by US cops' bullets, an incomprehensible violence not understood on the streets of Canterbury, county of Kent, in London, the UK, European Union, Europe.

Discussions swell of what will break and stop the USA cop violence on black children. Who does it start with to disappear, they ask. Who will be the WWII, royal, lion-leader to stop the killings in America with courage and with conviction? Each begin to see the sun can go down in a society where heads are not held high but instead corrupt and lost values divide people into groups of empty senseless killings, keeping many awake. The truth needs to be carried out, the students argue. The truth will be laid out and all this will disappear or America will bury itself, is the take away from the students. I listen to the reasoning of the CCCU student as we carry on.

If hunger exists without feeding, there is a lesson here for America - to love people equally. All Americans are victims to the same issue. Always look out for one another, the UK Canterbury student advises, for a better set of outcomes and a country.