How AI Enhances – and Diminishes — Learning [ Amanpour and Company ]

"Cautionary Tale": NYC's The New School Guts Faculty & Staff as Colleges Intensify Austerity [ Democracy Now! ]

More Than a Dozen Colleges Will Quietly Cross the $100,000 Mark This Year [ NYmag ]

 The flava:

[ money money money money . . . ]

The article:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/colleges-hundred-thousand-dollars-per-year.html

Jay Caspian Kang on A.I. in college

The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.

By Jay Caspian Kang

https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-despair-of-the-professor-in-the-age-of-ai

New College of Florida: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Vermont’s Most Bizarre Real-Estate Listing Is a Free College Campus [ WSJ ]

The flava:

A year after Green Mountain College closed for good in 2019, the school found an unlikely buyer for its stately campus in rural Vermont.  

Raj Bhakta was a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” an unsuccessful congressional candidate and an embattled whiskey entrepreneur. But he had some big ideas for the property—his plan would include 93 hotel rooms, 18 condos, a micro-distillery, restaurant and spa. He spent less than $5 million for the whole campus.

Six years later, it remains mostly empty, aside from a small elementary school founded by Bhakta’s wife, with the bigger development plans called off. He is now trying to give away the land and 16 buildings.

“If you ever want to feel like you’re going nuts,” the 50-year-old said in an interview, “buy a college campus in the middle of nowhere. . . . ”   

The article:

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/vermonts-most-bizarre-real-estate-listing-is-a-free-college-campus-a499277a

Spelman College Names an A.I. Expert as Its New President [ NYTimes ]

The flava:

Spelman College, the historically Black liberal arts school for women, on Friday named a roboticist and artificial intelligence expert as its next president.

The selection of Ayanna M. Howard, the dean of Ohio State University’s engineering college, represents a departure for a 145-year-old liberal arts school whose modern presidents have included doctors, an anthropologist and a psychologist.

But as the higher education industry grapples with the rise of A.I. and how the technology may reshape the global work force, Dr. Howard argued that liberal arts students at places like Spelman should lean into the development of A.I. . . .     

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/spelman-college-president-ayanna-howard.html

Trump’s mass deportation campaign takes a toll on college students [ PBS NewsHour ]

no confidence? [ Rachel Toor & Chuck Ambrose ]

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/small-world/2026/05/27/vote-no-confidence

Joe Harroz on AI, OU Football, NIL & The Future of Higher Education | In The Spotlight [ Oklahoma's Own Originals ]