> Education Dept hands federal student loan portfolio to Treasury, in latest step to dismantle agency https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/03/education-dept-hands-federal-student-loan-portfolio-to-treasury-in-latest-step-to-dismantle-agency/

Meanwhile, the Wrastlin' Lady keeps working to fuck up the DoE.

#BadEconomy #academia #HigherEd #corruption #exploitation

> Public writing has become a benchmark of the PhD journey https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/03/20/public-writing-has-become-a-benchmark-of-the-phd-journey/

FTA: " Academic writing teaches precision. Public writing teaches clarity and empathy. Together they help a scholar think more deeply about the purpose of their work."

This may be an across the pond thing. In my time in #academia rarely if ever I've seen faculty bother writing for the hoi polloi. YMMV.

#HigherEd #writing

Are we realistically assessing students?

Very interesting piece on assessment and poor genAI policies istitutional policies.

Being in the middle of a full programme level review, my feeling is we're over-assessing and using antiquated methods that really never worked (oh God... another closed book exam... kill me pleeeeease). If only, I don't know, we could talk to students or observe them doing something!

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/trained-to-stop-learning-how-students-are-experiencing-assessment-and-learning-in-an-age-of-ai/

#academia #highered #assessment #genAI

> How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges. https://lithub.com/how-black-studies-departments-are-being-dismantled-at-american-colleges/

FTA: “The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government,” he writes. “It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”

#academia #HigherEd #DEI #racism #BlackStudies #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon

“If higher education is about gaining new knowledge and sharpening critical thinking skills and contributing to scholarly conversations, students are actively neglecting these things when they use AI,” said Benison, who doesn’t use generative AI at all. “There’s rhetoric about inevitability and not being left behind, but there’s more value in rediscovering why human intelligence is so valuable. I don’t think we’re being left behind by refusing it.”

On the Conference on College Composition and Communication resolution about resisting the unthinking imposition of #genAI and allowing faculty and students to opt out entirely.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching-learning/2026/03/16/writing-faculty-push-right-refuse-ai

#HigherEd #AI
@academia

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