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We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.

I know, I know: it’s illegal to discuss things like higher ed labor practices and the political economy of the university on the oped page of major newspapers like the New York Times: only a utopian vision of the classroom as a pure space of teaching and learning completely insulated from capitalism