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oatmeal , to academicchatter
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Behind the Campaign to Take Down Harvard’s Claudine Gay

Christopher Rufo, a right-wing activist and controversial commentator, has been
accused by some critics of being linked to the recent attacks on Harvard
President Claudine Gay. This accusation stems from Rufo's vocal opposition to
critical race theory ().

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/behind-the-campaign-to-take-down-harvards-claudine-gay-b551f4a5

Use https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome for to read article in full

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dogzilla ,
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@qrazi @academicchatter @oatmeal @israel @palestine Ok, that’s pretty damn useful

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Is free speech in trouble on college campuses?

The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.

A expert provides some needed context:
https://theconversation.com/why-university-presidents-find-it-hard-to-punish-advocating-genocide-college-free-speech-codes-are-both-more-and-less-protective-than-the-first-amendment-219566
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dogzilla ,
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@nicholas_saunders @jsdodge @TheConversationUS @academicchatter Hard to ignore the misspellings tho

dogzilla ,
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@nicholas_saunders @jsdodge @TheConversationUS @academicchatter Spanish was my first language, so “cajones” jumped out at me - just a little pet peeve.

Cajones - open-top boxes, usually made of wood

Cojones - colloquialism meaning testicles or “balls” or “stones”

dogzilla ,
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@nicholas_saunders @jsdodge @TheConversationUS @academicchatter We’re in agreement there. My (unsolicited) opinion is three very qualified professionals got railroaded by histrionic idiots in the public and in Congress engaging in performative self-aggrandizing and hypocritical bullshit.

My only disagreement is that those yapping loudmouths don’t have big cojones- they utterly lack them.

dogzilla ,
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@nicholas_saunders @jsdodge @TheConversationUS @academicchatter Tough to stop and reflect when you’re super-excited to score points

prachisrivas , to academicchatter
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Argh. Why have university websites become so opaque that you have to be a ninja just to find a list of departments, schools, and faculties? When you finally do, faculty are hidden away behind opaque tabs.

University websites now seem a shell to attract research partners, donors, and (ostensibly) students, forgetting their main function is still to produce knowledge and teach and learn.

It shouldn't take long to find basic info - who's doing what and in which fields.

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dogzilla ,
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@independentpen @academicchatter @prachisrivas Hire Arlo.Boston to enhance your signage and wayfinding with augmented reality

rspfau , to random
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Sometimes I'm called upon to teach a writing intensive capstone class where the main assignment has been a review paper. Given , I've been wondering what to do differently. Helping students improve their writing is totally different now...that's all I know.

I found this article:
The role of ChatGPT in scientific communication: writing better scientific review articles

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10164801/

dogzilla ,
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@gpollara @eilonwy @rspfau @academicchatter There’s a Stanford professor who’s simply integrating LLMs into his lesson plan - he accepts work generated by LLMs, but students must include the prompt used to generate the text and are graded on that as well.

Seems to me adapting to the reality of LLMs and teaching students to use it effectively is a more successful approach to teaching.

dogzilla ,
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@gpollara @eilonwy @rspfau @academicchatter I came across this resource and thought it might prove interesting:

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-will-transform-teaching-and-learning-lets-get-it-right

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