Why not just have a form students can fill out once they complete everything then just process whatever's been submitted at the specified dates? Students would obvs include an alternate email address because I certainly am not planning to check my university email regularly now that I'm done.

Personally access to healthcare has been a consideration as I search for a job post PhD since going to a different province means loosing a family doctor at an age where things like having a kid is on the horizon.

Hasn't there been a reduction in consumer protections in the US as well? Things like tracking food safety concerns (e.g. salmonella contamination)?

And consists of two tubs and two sinks with one labeled as 'coat closet'. It was the first room I looked at and the two tubs really got me.

I think the decisions by provinces to start selling off and clearing remaining inventories of american alcohols also speaks volumes. These are goods that could last a very long time in a warehouse without loosing value.

At that point students weren't really using AI for coding so it was less preferred than in 2022 (they had to rank 5 things least to most favourite). That said, although students hated technical writing less, it's still a skill they need to do themselves to become proficient.

AI is also changing how students view course activities. I did a survey which was focused on gender biases in engineering students. I happened to put a question about preferred learning activities. Between the Fall 2022 and Fall 2024 students went from hating report writing to being meh on it.

And to link back into OP's thread, more than ever it's very clear that students aren't prepared. It could be because of when they experienced covid lockdowns, it could be financial uncertainties, social media, chatGPT etc. but the work getting handed in dropped in quality seemingly overnight.

What I have heard profs and TA's encountering in the last ~1.5 yrs or so is a spike in the percent of students just not reaching the minimum. In engineering (my field of study) [in Canada] due to accreditation there are limits on how accommodating profs can be and imo it's been really demoralizing.

I think reading less for fun would be a normal response on some level after an undergrad degree where you are school required a lot of readings.

Absolutely agree, lots of contributing factors.

I imagine kids also get a certain amount of support learning to read from parents who would take a variety of approaches.

E.g. my sister had dyslexia so there was a lot of supplemental teaching by my parents.

You definitely know more than me! I shouldn't be trying to expand on the thread I linked, all I really understand is that a shift in how reading is being taught may contribute to difficulty engaging with reading-heavy activities.

That plus AI and burnout from lockdowns may be other contributors.

I guess it's coupled with the reduction in things they actually need to read because the social media youths consume is more video based? I suppose also things like podcasts and audiobooks (although obviously talk radio is not a new thing).

Idk, I get grumpy if I need info and only videos show up.

I think it's that the focus has recently* been more on the figuring out the word from context and has been very light on trying to figure out words by sounding them out?

*I guess ~15 years ago such that those kids are undergrads now. Plus lockdowns when they were in late elementary school...

Maybe we just need better heavy metal music scenes? If only...

My hot take on AI as an engineering graduate student is that students feed everything into ChatGPT (even coding assignments) and now simply don't know how to start things.

Ironically, in a survey I did fall terms 2022 and 2024 students hated report writing a lot less after ChatGPT.

I am reminded of this thread I read recently:

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Basically how reading is being taught has shifted from phonetics based to context based and it is not setting folks up for success.