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HIGHER EDUCATION
Let’s Play Academic Clue
AI cheaters, student financial struggles, one college closing every week: which higher Ed faculty are responsible for the slow, crumbling death of traditional higher Ed?
Which of these unfortunate instructors do you feel most sympathetic to? Which one is the one who has dealt the tottering edifice of US higher education the final blow in our game of Higher Ed Clue?
Front and center: Chester the Molester, PhD, who married his pet student back in 1990 and has cheated on her regularly with an ever-younger set up until … he’s having trouble doing that in recent years, owing to the near-50-year age gap between him and current students.
Front left: Dr. Depression, who hasn’t prepared a new lecture in 30 years.
Front right: Professor Tower, recently returned from receiving another award for his work promoting globalization, hasn’t met personally with a student since prior to the 2020 COVID pandemic, and whose grad assistants return his calls via chatbot.
Rear Center: Wilhelmina Wordy, PhD, who bemoans the fact that none of her students read any assignments and use LLM tools to write their papers.
