new essay on the neocolonial, neoliberal sociocultural project we’re calling ‘ai’ and jesuit higher ed

another installment in my ongoing commentary and critique of the neocolonial, neoliberal sociocultural project we’re calling ‘ai’ is out from jesuit higher education. it’s a meditation and reflection on the importance of context prior to any question of functionality regarding generative software in education, more on the institutional rather than the classroom level.

the piece was in final stages of publication when magnifica humanitas dropped, so i was only able to gesture toward it in quick revision, but mh is based strongly in prior work coming out of the vatican, so i wouldn’t have changed much anyhow.

hope all is well for all of you!

new essay on academic integrity in _jesuit higher education: a journal_

as some of you may know from things i’ve said, i’m the current academic integrity director at marquette university. it’s been a very active year in the office with the release of ‘generative a.i.’ chatbots to the general public. among other things.

but this new essay, thankfully, is a broader reflection on the nature of integrity in higher education generally, based in my first year’s observations and lessons learned. it explores integrity in three “keys”: medieval monastic (because it’s me), aristotelian/thomistic (which was a new endeavor for me), and existential (to round things out).

even if you’re not in higher ed at all, there are still reflections on integrity as a virtue (in the greek sense of “excellence”) in life generally here that could be of interest.

pax inter spinas

ps. included here are some images of wild geranium from this spring that didn’t get on here.