The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

Skip the article about/from the employees of the Yale corporation and read this from SUNY Geneseo

www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

When you attempt to scale the beneficent effects of tutoring, those effects go away.

Feels like this would be pretty obvious to anybody who has ever been or had a tutor.

The 1-to-1 instructor to student ratio is definitional.

UIC English is hiring 3 NTT faculty, part of our United Faculty Union. professional writing, english language learning, literature/culture generalism. hmu w questions!

uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

To understand these dynamics of intensified inequality or splitting, we have to shift away from whether ChatGPT can or can’t write good papers or how bad the “hallucinations” are, and toward an analysis of the political economy of higher education and the accelerating role of corporate interests, and their proxies in boards of directors and trustees, in defining the scene of learning. On this understanding, AI products are best understood not as technologies of information (as their backers prefer them to be discussed) but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.

To my surprise I got invited to be on a panel here called "The Problem of AI" and took the opportunity to try to shift the discussion from boosterism & normalization, however "thoughtful and deliberative," & toward the political economy of higher education

nathankhensley.net/uncategorize...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

This is an incredible resource and reference.

45 (!!!) examples of successfully bargained language, with every type of institution represented.

Open link: "Do you want to receive notifications?"

This is exactly how my class discussion started. These are graduate students, btw. A lot of students really take my courses for writing instruction and not content. So the issue of finishing a draft comes up.

Turns out they cannot write (or read a long text) because they have every notification on

I like this quick and pithy infographic for students. (Higher-quality version here: www.jessicacalarco.com/teaching-res...)

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

somewhere between 1-3 also includes spending several million dollars worth of consultants and edtech partnerships

No acknowledgement of the massive defunding of higher education, casualization of teaching labor, and assault on academic freedom. And not even a name check of a single American public college/university.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Since I heard Penn State launched a course called "One Book Slowly" this year (Eric Hayot is teaching Madame Bovary) I can't stop thinking about it

This is my first attempt to capture a live event of this size.

I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.

I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.

Minnesota school districts, teachers union sue Trump administration over ICE activity near schools Fridley and Duluth public schools and Education Minnesota say responding to the surge of immigration enforcement has diverted time and money from student learning.

Once again, teachers and their unions are standing in the breach @aft.org @educationmn.bsky.social @democracyforward.org @aaup.org

a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech in front of a whiteboard . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech in front of a whiteboard .

It's this guy energy...

If true, those fucking jv mallcops better give back all 4 porkpie hats and chain wallets they confiscated.

They're dismantling so much of the IU system and are making conditions so hostile to faculty right now. It's upsetting how extensive the state is damaging the institution with the cover of sports.

Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Good God, they need you!

Inoreader – Build your own newsfeed With Inoreader, content comes to you the minute it's available. Follow websites, social media feeds, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters. Enjoy what's important to you, all in one place.

I am using www.inoreader.com, which has been pretty good for RSS feeds. I run all my news through it and a few others and haven't had to pay for the premium subscription.

I am still bitter about Google Reader getting shuttered 14 years ago. I am trying to transition to as many open-source and non-profit tech software now.

You all were a delight. Excited to give this a relisten right before our next strategy session tomorrow.

This also runs the browser waaay faster.

Google is still not great, but slightly more tolerable when you turn off the AI search function. Here's how: tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing. All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.

Don’t miss it.

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education

This seems like the right diagnosis:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...