Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
Life in the Interregnum: Researcher, org change specialist, English faculty, supernerd, follow-back girl, zero patience for organizational dysfunction and poor leadership. Personal account, obv.
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.See also: college and university presidents and the purpose of higher education.
- Yale English faculty requiring paper. yaledailynews.com/articles/eng...
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.This is a five-alarm fire not just for Texas A&M but for higher education and the country more generally. And it’s old news to say it, but this resides in a different universe of consequentiality than any of the perceived transgressions that triggered the Harper’s letter.
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs
- Absolutely. I had to go on a little tear about this matter this weekend to discuss the internal effects on the orgs as well. Trying to stay in my lane but 👀 this bigger issues are CLEAR open.substack.com/pub/christin...
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Please know that if your institution did this, it's a racist institution. Sure, many good people still work there and do good work there. But the school as a whole functions as a white supremacist institution. Proceed accordingly.
- The org that paid for half of my PhD doesn't even respect me.
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- I remember hearing higher ed leaders trying to make people go ALL IN on VR as "education of the future" and getting stopped in my tracks by this thought: "OH. You really don't know what youre doing." Evergreen.
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- I have thoughts about this having done it myself. Reposting so that I remember to come back to it.
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - People keep wanting to shove "learning about A.I." into the curriculum when what we really need is learning about power and how it works.
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- "The key is not technology; it is institutions," Méndez Galain said. "Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Makes me recall a clip I saw of Joe Rogan enthusiastically forcing an musician to listen to genAI music he'd prompted as he heaped praise on the model that had generated it. The musician responded, "What about AI podcasts? They have those, now." No prizes for guessing how Joe reacted.
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.The Center for Academic Freedom has developed some recommendations and language around academic freedom that you can make part of your semester syllabus. Check out this post by CDAF director @isaackamola.bsky.social for details and links. open.substack.com/pub/academic...
- "Who's the best organizer of workers? The boss" (p. 115). @dskamper.bsky.social
- ISU student support workers file to unionize | WGLT share.google/tQEYWrzQxvQi...
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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- A.I. is going to make the forthcoming complaints about colleges' failures to comply with the digital accessibility order incredibly easy for the lawyers who do this work. Coming to theaters near you on April 27, 2026. I should start an LLC. Colleges are misreading the "public entity" definition.
- Every time I need to endure yet another conversation about "incorporating A.I." into college classes, I am tempted to ask, "But are we doing anything about our upcoming compliance deadline or no?" I have a banger of a newsletter article coming up. onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights...
- But keep pushing it, higher ed. Keeeeeep puuuuushing it. *Brilliant* strategy and maneuvering.
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
- Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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- Really proud of the work we are doing at haccea.org We launched a micro course! We are unpacking our contract negotiations w as much clarity as possible after two strike days last week. We shall see what this week brings! #solidarity
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- Someone just liked this post from 2022 so I read it again to check relevance. Yeah. Shattering resonance here in 2025 on the matter of power and the "quiet quitting" discourse in orgs. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education. 21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- "Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks."
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- "This ongoing bending to pressures that run counter to our deeply held educational and ethical beliefs makes me wonder if we’re experiencing a collective moral injury in higher education."
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- Despite how it FELT, "The study found that "AI" actually decreased productivity (by 19%)." Just vibes
- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.
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- Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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