Mastodawn

The growing divide between red and blue state universities, with the former profitting from Trump's war on the latter:

What's happening to Antarctica?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/27/tipping-points-antarctica-arctic-sea-ice-polar-scientist

Bryan Alexander 1d ago

One sketch of opposition to AI:
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash/

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.

WIRED

Bryan Alexander 2d ago

Good exercise for academics: thinking through the fact that incoming students were born in 2007.

Bryan Alexander 2d ago

Today's infinite corridor.

Bryan Alexander 2d ago

The University of Virginia's president resigns, under threat from the White House.

Bryan Alexander 3d ago

Conservative governors launch new accreditation body:
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2025/06/desantis-led-coalition-launches-new.html

DeSantis-Led Coalition Launches New Accreditation Body: Ideology, Outcomes, and a Shift in Higher Ed Oversight

A data-driven source asking tough questions about US higher education. Featured in national publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Bryan Alexander 3d ago

Gallup poll of K-12 teachers using AI:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/691967/three-teachers-weekly-saving-six-weeks-year.aspx

Three in 10 Teachers Use AI Weekly, Saving Six Weeks a Year

Six in 10 teachers use AI tools for their work, and three in 10 are using it at least weekly, saving an estimated 5.9 hours per week.

Gallup

Bryan Alexander 3d ago

How are authoritarian governments attempting to suppress higher education?

Here is our full Forum conversation with professor Eve Darian-Smith, author of _Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters_.

https://youtu.be/23MR_ggaJYE?si=OBAVBEIPxcBcVVCN