> Unemployed Man Considers Going Back To School To Become AI https://theonion.com/unemployed-man-considers-going-back-to-school-to-become-ai/
#BarelySatire. I'd laugh but certain employer just told us we need to be "learning" #AISlop because "wave of future or something" and "encouraged" to get a #sloperator certificate (i.e. be a shame if you could not keep your job).

PIKEVILLE, KY—Speculating that a new path in life might improve his job prospects, unemployed man Ian Hampel, 36, told reporters Tuesday that he was considering going back to school to become an AI. “I can see the writing on the wall: If I want to stay relevant in the workforce, I’m going to need to […]
> Student Use of AI for Homework Rises as Concerns Grow About Critical Thinking Skills https://www.rand.org/news/press/2026/03/student-use-of-ai-for-homework-rises-as-concerns-grow.html
The great #tech that #academia and #HigherEd, including #librarians who should know better, are rushing to embrace and nurture. Oh well.
"CA Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a statement on a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to grant a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump Administration’s burdensome new requirements that colleges and universities submit data linking race to admissions, financial aid, and student performance." https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-secures-court-ruling-temporarily-blocking-trump

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a statement on a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to grant a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump Administration’s burdensome new requirements that colleges and universities submit data linking race to admissions, financial aid, and student performance.
@CornellonFire Meditation action at Cornell: imagine a university degree that is fossil-free. Imagine, resolve, act.
https://www.cornellonfire.org/actionsevents/meditation-action-3-20-2026
#climate #climatecrisis #nvda #action #activism #cornell #highered #universities #ithaca

Get enlightened at an unusual meditation for a fossil-free degree. Super exclusive, but you’re invited! Join a contemplative satire of Cornell’s morally reprehensible ties to fossil-fuel funding and call for Cornell’s dissociation from corrupting fossil-fuel money in research, donations, and retirem
The Quiet Recovery: More Australian Students Are Staying in School
#AusEducation #STEMCareers #AusNews #HigherEd #Students #AIGenerated
Applied for jobs at two more night schools.
Teaching #archaeology at a night school actually makes much more constructive societal sense than teaching it at a university. Because night-school students don't go into debt to be there, and they don't expect to get a job in archaeology one day.
"All #highered is valuable even if it doesn't get you a job" is the perspective of people with inherited wealth. For the rest of us, it means debt and an opportunity cost.