“Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age” out in just a few weeks. Feel the hype: “…a magisterial tour-de-force of historical scholarship…It has the potential to alter the debate over the place of the humanities…” Warren G. Breckman https://t.co/2kEsOiMfzC
@_John_Handel we're gonna optimize the shit out of real learning, John. evidence-based, economized, rationalized efficiences that demand out-sized tuition increases.
@SWGoldman my teaching remains steadfastly amoral and a-(non?)- virtuous. i float like a turkey vulture above the value conflicts and communities of commitment.
The University Chicago's decline began in the 1930s when it abandoned its greatest form of excellence: football. People keep talking about great UC scholars but never forget UC's Jay Berwanger, the first Heisman Trophy winner. https://t.co/fNbgtgNh4K
The joke is that education is tangential to this decision. Like all universities UC is a complex bureaucratic behemoth betting that new enterprise software can increase efficiencies faster than integration of "AI" in Workday etc. Educating: but one function of our monstrosities.
one plus is that when emailing our UC colleagues we'll have to more self-consciously wonder if the reply is human/machine writing. A good exercise generally now but the UC just forced its habituation for some of us with lingering nostalgia about what UC once was.
The joke is that education is tangential to this decision. Like all universities UC is a complex bureaucratic behemoth betting that new enterprise software can increase efficiencies faster than integration of "AI" in Workday etc. Educating: but one function of our monstrosities.
Bizcon at UChicago: pre-professional major w/in Econ w/ which it shares no reqs: “The business economics specialization adds Booth School of Biz courses…providing career-related skills in economics w/out mathematical rigor of the standard economics track” https://t.co/dlAeL0tVpV
@TrevorGriffey yeah, 2010 is kinda on the nose. i started at UVA in 2007 and the real, local effects of that year and after didn't manifest until, well, 2010.
The Evolution of Western Thought by Christopher S. Celenza
A sweeping intellectual history tracing how philosophical, religious and literary traditions evolved from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages.
📘 https://t.co/eOCgL2NXHr
#intellectualhistory#historyofideas
@lindakinstler@nikos_janos Thanks so much, Linda. And thank you for your work, most recently this piece which does so much so well. “The omnipresence of ChatGPT has forced a conversation about the value of academic work, the role of public universities and the perils of partnerships with private industry.”
“From 2020 through 2025, the most recent data available, $2.7 trillion in new wealth was created for the top 0.0001% in the U.S., a group of about 250 people…The bottom 50%—about 125 million people—saw just $1.9 trillion in new wealth since 2020.” https://t.co/KO9hQMEqoZ