"The Black Student Union (BSU) cookout on Feb. 28 was supposed to be a protected community event, but BSU members who left the event quickly became targets for bigoted violence, putting their physical safety and mental well-being at risk."

https://newuniversity.org/2026/03/31/standing-with-the-student-victims-of-on-campus-hate-crimes/ #UCIrvine #Racism #HigherEd

"According to Moak, the administrative decisions relating to the GLN stem from “catastrophic” budget cuts which have resulted in language departments across UCSB needing to lay off faculty and replace them with “computer programs or robots.” "

https://dailynexus.com/2026-04-02/ucsb-contends-with-proposed-systemwide-shift-to-online-language-courses/ #SantaBarbara #HigherEd #NeoliberalHellhole

"According to an @insidehighered analysis of more than 60 key #HigherEd lawsuits, the [Trump administration] has the upper hand in just 17 cases as of April 1."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/courts/2026/04/03/lawsuits-against-trump-pile-strategies-shift

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

The HBS Case Method

This innovative & exciting teaching method gives students real life situations to grapple w/ & is 1 reason why #HarvardU is a national treasure.

It deserves our full support, not hostile attacks from the Trump et al.

#HigherEd #Education

https://youtu.be/h80hmEAGBbM?si=IgqzLFA8nSUoJZC3

A paper published in Nature last week described an AI system that autonomously conceived, ran, wrote up research, and got it through peer review. No humans in the loop.

I’m worried because this isn’t just a machine learning curiosity. The same research process/pipeline applies to a huge proportion of what researchers in health, social science, and policy actually do.

Researchers probably won't disappear overnight or entirely - history suggests automation rarely eliminates occupations outright. Elevator operators are the exception, not the rule. But that's not actually very reassuring because the real pattern is a sharp widening of inequality within jobs and fields, and a hollowing out of the early-career roles where people actually learn domain expertise.

Our institutions have no plans for this - more in the post:

https://harrisroxashealth.com/2026/04/what-will-a-researcher-be-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-epistemological-bomb/

#higherEd #research #AI

Many people overtalk when they feel insecure.

This is a post about teaching.

#education #languageteaching #ELT #teachers #highered