here’s my latest, now up at inside higher ed, on the ways in which irreality is mediating between (interfering with?) students and instructors in higher ed.

how do we scrutinize reality together (the university’s general institutional mission) when we aren’t seeing it?

i’m realizing more and more that the humanist tradition of western education needs to constantly be clarifying how statistical probability software isn’t going to magically form knowledgeable, grounded, savvy humans and in fact throws them off the scent. if neoliberal productivity for its own sake is the goal, sure; but i can’t agree with that as a desirable end for education of any sort.