Hollis Robbins
@anecdotal.bsky.social
AI is disrupting higher ed: how can we be ahead? Writing at https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. Former Dean of Humanities & now Special Advisor for Humanities & AI at UUtah. Former Dean @ Sonoma State University. PhD Princeton, MPP Harvard KSG
Yes, you might have said this in the piece but it's interesting that while in the 1970s computer research was the pride of universities, and to some degrees biotech and robotics are for today's university, but nobody shares excitement in AI research. Also nice footnote on the public phones.
Colleges & universities are successfully saying 'no' to AI. Whether that's a win or not is up to you. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/universiti...
Universities would prefer not to.
AI and the degree monopoly
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Part 2 -- learning outcomes as a Gordian knot and a Hippocratic miasma. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-miasma...
The Miasma Theory of Education
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 2)
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Why the questions you ask will have more and more similar answers. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
Stereotype Threat
Inference and prejudice
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This was written in response to a conversation about how hiring more conservative faculty was the most important problem higher ed should address. Ha. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
Look on my Outcomes, ye Mighty and despair
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 1)
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Part 2 -- learning outcomes as a Gordian knot and a Hippocratic miasma. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-miasma...
The Miasma Theory of Education
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 2)
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
This was written in response to a conversation about how hiring more conservative faculty was the most important problem higher ed should address. Ha. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
Look on my Outcomes, ye Mighty and despair
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 1)
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Why the questions you ask will have more and more similar answers. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
Stereotype Threat
Inference and prejudice
open.substack.com
On all the philosophers working to make AI "better." hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/why-cant-a...
Why Can't a Model Be More Like a Man?
Everybody's Alfred P. Doolittle now
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On all the philosophers working to make AI "better." hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/why-cant-a...
Why Can't a Model Be More Like a Man?
Everybody's Alfred P. Doolittle now
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I'm tired of politics and so here is cultural politics: hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-lis...
How to Listen to a Tarantino Movie
Starting with "Django Unchained"
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Thrilled to see "Notes on Spite" in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! pghrev.com/notes-on-spi...
Notes on Spite - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Many things in the world have not been named openly; and many things, even if they are admitted, have never been described. One is the unsung sensibility – a
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I'm tired of politics and so here is cultural politics: hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-lis...
How to Listen to a Tarantino Movie
Starting with "Django Unchained"
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Why to resist posting what everyone else does. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
Amor Fati Entropy
Avoid eternal return
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Thrilled to see "Notes on Spite" in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! pghrev.com/notes-on-spi...
Notes on Spite - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Many things in the world have not been named openly; and many things, even if they are admitted, have never been described. One is the unsung sensibility – a
pghrev.com
Why to resist posting what everyone else does. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
Amor Fati Entropy
Avoid eternal return
open.substack.com
Happy Father's Day review of @read.lukeburgis.com's book about how to be your own person. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-one-an...
*The One and the Ninety-Nine* [review]
Luke Burgis's moving new book
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Are there really Marxists in higher ed? If there were, there would be more attention to students outside the elite schools. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/from-the-a...
From the Athens of Veracruz to ChatGPT
Norma Sancho on the emptiness of online education
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Are there really Marxists in higher ed? If there were, there would be more attention to students outside the elite schools. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/from-the-a...
From the Athens of Veracruz to ChatGPT
Norma Sancho on the emptiness of online education
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Perhaps in a few years you too could leave the rat race and start a farm on Mars. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/trad-husba...
Trad-husband jobs on Mars
Thoughts on Banff and Brigadoon
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Perhaps in a few years you too could leave the rat race and start a farm on Mars. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/trad-husba...
Trad-husband jobs on Mars
Thoughts on Banff and Brigadoon
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“…the only defensible reason for universities to remain in operation is to offer students an opportunity to learn from faculty whose expertise surpasses current AI.” - @anecdotal.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans
Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.
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I know this site isn't for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs but if there are any here, have at it. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
How to make a mint off the coming higher ed contraction
Exploit the trust failure now
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I know this site isn't for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs but if there are any here, have at it. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
How to make a mint off the coming higher ed contraction
Exploit the trust failure now
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
Incredible how this is happening even at Chicago. You’re not supposed to care who is teaching you. This is how institutions make themselves vulnerable to AI disruption. If it doesn’t matter who is teaching you, why not AI? chicagomaroon.com/52530/news/s...
Sosc and Civ Professors’ Names Will No Longer Be Visible During Pre-Registration
The new Core writing course Inquiry, Conversation, Argument—which will be taken by approximately half of first-years in the 2026–27 school year—will also become a prerequisite for social science Core ...
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Millions of college degrees rest on coursework in fields that cannot vouch for what they teach, delivered through a billion-dollar credentialing infrastructure that certifies competencies the assignments inside it do not require. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/college-cr...
College credit for this?
What that Oklahoma Bible-citing essay controversy was really about
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is Black Studies Civic Studies? peterlevine.ws?p=35627 (replying to @anecdotal.bsky.social)
is Black Studies Civic Studies? | Peter Levine
Hollis Robbins has a great article about the relationship between Black Studies and Civic Studies or Civic Thought programs. This is a timely question, since Civic Thought initiatives are growing rapi...
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