Megan Lynch (she/her)

"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

UCSB contends with proposed systemwide shift to online language courses | The Daily Nexus

UC administrators are looking to cut campus-based foreign language courses and aim to outsource language teaching to an online system.

The Daily Nexus | The University of California, Santa Barbara's independent, student-run newspaper.
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Show threadvxo10h ago

@ml
Oh gods. I dealt with bullshit grading robots in college years ago, I can't even imagine how much more fair and helpful* the new agentic AI slop students are going to be trying to appease must be

* Fuck me gently with a running chainsaw

Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)9h ago
@vxo A problem I have with this is that many faculty fight creative accessible online curricula development. At first because of ableism (first and always...), but also because of the very real worry that neoliberal adminstration will use it as an excuse to lay people off. And their toadyism when it comes to bowing to AI bros' will is likely to make this all worse as well.
Show threadvxo4h ago
@ml
Everyone just loses with these plans