> ,,, the greatest nuisance that I associate with AI is not student cheating but administrative advocacy. The explosion of AI hype has led to administrators going much further... These kinds of programs elevate public-relations hype over the academic expertise of faculty.

> The greatest potential threat to academic freedom posed by AI comes from precisely this kind of administrative encouragement... the pressure on an untenured English professor to become an AI advocate would still be enormous. According to that same story, the entire initiative stems from the appointment of a new provost there, flying in the face of the AAUP’s guidance that the faculty should have primary responsibility for the curriculum.

aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/ai-…

#AINuisance #AdministrationNuisances #UniversityAdministration

Paul Goodman decades ago warned about "administration" (bureaucracy? like in David Graeber's *Utopia of Rules* ) taking over not just the university but the thinking of the students and professors... Back then he may have been writing in the context of grading, some professors just gave all As or all Cs.. Sounds awful people should do things because their worthwhile not to get carrots or avoid sticks. Alfie Kohn can shore up our confidence for rejecting the carrot and stick approach with people.. i wouldn't be surprised if it's not a good approach with donkeys either...
@bsmall2

> The recent history of American higher education has in a sense been one hype cycle after another. In 2006, the sociologist Adam Best wrote, “Over the years, I have been assured that our university—if not all of higher education—was about to be transformed by the Pacific Rim, assessment, active learning, cooperative learning, distance learning, service learning, problem-based learning, responsibility-based management, zero-based budgeting, broadening the general-education requirements, narrowing the general-education requirements, capstone courses, writing across the curriculum, affirmative action, multicultural educa­tion, computer networking, the Internet, water (don’t ask), critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and I don’t know what else.” If anything, this tendency has gotten even worse since.

#JonathanRees #AdamBest on #UniversityAdministration #UniversityFads #MarketingHype

It all make me think of #JaquesEllull on how "intellectuals" (or the corporate mindsets among them..) are particularly vulnerable to PropagandaS #Propagandas
@bsmall2

it takes a bit

#uni #university #universityadministration