Shaun Morgan
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A $1,500 raise after a promotion, a celebrated 1% raise, and other tales from the frontlines of higher ed. How have you encountered higher ed's absurd compensation practices? Tell us about it. https://chroni.cl/3LZAGLP
Opinion | Higher Education’s Compensation Charade
We’ve come to accept illogical, unjust, and occasionally insulting pay practices. Why?
www.chronicle.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
A $1,500 raise after a promotion, a celebrated 1% raise, and other tales from the frontlines of higher ed. How have you encountered higher ed's absurd compensation practices? Tell us about it. https://chroni.cl/3LZAGLP
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"a great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the US" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine
A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...
thepointmag.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
"a great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the US" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Just completed an institutional survey about attitudes toward AI only to find out after I submitted it that portions of the survey were created with AI.😒
February 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Just completed an institutional survey about attitudes toward AI only to find out after I submitted it that portions of the survey were created with AI.😒
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January 22, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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This piece gets at one of the underlying reasons students turn to LLMs - because they think it makes them sound like they belong in a university setting. It's the same motive that had students overusing the thesaurus pre-ChatGPT. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/chatgpt-an...
ChatGPT and "Inventing the University"
What we can learn from the em dash debate
theimportantwork.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This piece gets at one of the underlying reasons students turn to LLMs - because they think it makes them sound like they belong in a university setting. It's the same motive that had students overusing the thesaurus pre-ChatGPT. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/chatgpt-an...
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Shorter Sunstein: “I wanted to write a nice book, and if I addressed the things you bring up it would have been…not nice.”
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Shorter Sunstein: “I wanted to write a nice book, and if I addressed the things you bring up it would have been…not nice.”
Taboo
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Taboo
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“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall
An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.
www.thestar.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
So I guess trading away your best player is just a Dallas thing now.
August 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So I guess trading away your best player is just a Dallas thing now.
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People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
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This Cracker Barrel business is a perfect example of how the right wing can manufacture culture wars outrage over absolutely nothing.
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
August 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This Cracker Barrel business is a perfect example of how the right wing can manufacture culture wars outrage over absolutely nothing.
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Tr*mp made them choose what he makes everyone choose: what to them was real and what was nice to have, but kind of ornamental. Foreigners, lefties, homos, POC were nice to have. The core of the university was the money and the research done by people who resemble our upper administrations. (3/4)
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Tr*mp made them choose what he makes everyone choose: what to them was real and what was nice to have, but kind of ornamental. Foreigners, lefties, homos, POC were nice to have. The core of the university was the money and the research done by people who resemble our upper administrations. (3/4)
This whole thread. Damn.
There's an ad for Smarty Pants vitamins--a parent says to another "raising smart kids isn't a competition" then to the camera "except it totally is."
It's so over-the-top it could be parody. But it's real. So we need to talk about what's driving this competition, and why it's apt to get worse. 1/🧵
It's so over-the-top it could be parody. But it's real. So we need to talk about what's driving this competition, and why it's apt to get worse. 1/🧵
July 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This whole thread. Damn.
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The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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What a horrific act of vandalism targeting a formidable set of public institutions. Solidarity with faculty and students.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
What a horrific act of vandalism targeting a formidable set of public institutions. Solidarity with faculty and students.
It wasn’t until I became a professional that I realized how much college financing has in common with used car sales.
College financing is a statistical shell game of tuition, discount rates, fees, endowment restrictions, rate swaps, overnight lending, arbitrary enrollment ratios, bullshit demography, & FAFSA arbitrage. This complexity is designed for narrative flexibility & Ponzi austerity.
Free college for all.
Free college for all.
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It wasn’t until I became a professional that I realized how much college financing has in common with used car sales.
1/2 Looking at all the memes comparing trump’s stupid little parade to the much larger ones in other authoritarian countries, I can’t help but notice the lack of fascist architecture and infrastructure
June 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
1/2 Looking at all the memes comparing trump’s stupid little parade to the much larger ones in other authoritarian countries, I can’t help but notice the lack of fascist architecture and infrastructure
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Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
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Being a Mavs fan right now has to be insane. Like you’re 99% happy, but 1% mad that they’re getting away with it?
May 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Being a Mavs fan right now has to be insane. Like you’re 99% happy, but 1% mad that they’re getting away with it?
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My opinion piece in @coloradosun.com is live--I ask when people will speak out against the fascist authoritarianism of this current administration:
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
Opinion: As a professor with non-native parents, I ask — When will you speak out?
We must have the moral and ethical courage to speak out and say the things we know to be true.
coloradosun.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My opinion piece in @coloradosun.com is live--I ask when people will speak out against the fascist authoritarianism of this current administration:
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
This thread from @mattseybold.bsky.social is a great rundown of how AI preys upon already existing problems in higher ed. I’d only add that these are all exacerbated by precarity and the performance metrics associated with teaching in higher ed which boil down to retention and student satisfaction.
The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared
This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently
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This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently
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May 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This thread from @mattseybold.bsky.social is a great rundown of how AI preys upon already existing problems in higher ed. I’d only add that these are all exacerbated by precarity and the performance metrics associated with teaching in higher ed which boil down to retention and student satisfaction.
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Latest episode of the pod.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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