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Higher ed professional. PhD student. Research interests: moral injury in mid-level higher ed leaders, trauma-informed leadership, mis/disinformation, lib sci education innovation. Pronouns: she/her Website: https://christinajsteffy.com/
Check out this article for info on where some of these functions are going at this point. www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
Trump Administration Continues Efforts to Dismantle the Education Department
Grant-making programs that support college access and student success will be outsourced to the Department of Labor under a new deal.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means." www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI
Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means." www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
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New data from the Urban Institute, now on PolicyMap, reveals how state-level protections and credit reporting reforms have helped reduce debt burdens — and why new federal guidance could reverse that progress.
See how local policies continue to shape medical debt nationwide:
See how local policies continue to shape medical debt nationwide:
Medical Debt in America: Policy, Health, and Financial Impacts
How Local Policies Are Making a Difference, and Why Federal Policy May Undo It All Millions of Americans are burdened with medical debt, often exacerbated by a lack of insurance...
www.policymap.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New data from the Urban Institute, now on PolicyMap, reveals how state-level protections and credit reporting reforms have helped reduce debt burdens — and why new federal guidance could reverse that progress.
See how local policies continue to shape medical debt nationwide:
See how local policies continue to shape medical debt nationwide:
Assessing reference services training through student staff satisfaction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Assessing reference services training through student staff satisfaction
Most research on satisfaction with academic library reference services explores patron, not staff, satisfaction. The research team speculated that understanding staff satisfaction with reference in...
www.tandfonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Assessing reference services training through student staff satisfaction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A bit of an oldie at this point, but definitely a goodie and very relevant as it pertains to institutional effectiveness. www.scup.org/resource/hel...
Help Wanted: Chief Coherency Officer
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November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A bit of an oldie at this point, but definitely a goodie and very relevant as it pertains to institutional effectiveness. www.scup.org/resource/hel...
Accreditors Start to Endorse Short-Term Credential Providers www.chea.org/accreditors-...
Accreditors Start to Endorse Short-Term Credential Providers | Council for Higher Education Accreditation
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November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Accreditors Start to Endorse Short-Term Credential Providers www.chea.org/accreditors-...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...
Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Creative Commons (CC) licenses expand, not restrict, the permissible uses of copyrighted works.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Library friends in the Southeast Pennsylvania region, check out the SEPLA Workshop and Business Meeting. I will be presenting. members.palibraries.org/event-calend...
2025 Southeast (SEPLA) Workshop & Business Meeting
You are invited to register for a regional workshop on Friday, December 5 at the Upper Dublin Public Library, 520 Virginia Dr, Fort Washington, PA 19034.
In addition to two hours of formal presentatio...
members.palibraries.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Library friends in the Southeast Pennsylvania region, check out the SEPLA Workshop and Business Meeting. I will be presenting. members.palibraries.org/event-calend...
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Guest Post — If a Tree Falls with Nobody Around to Record its Exact Location, Was it Even Compliant? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/25/g...
Guest Post — If a Tree Falls with Nobody Around to Record its Exact Location, Was it Even Compliant? - The Scholarly Kitchen
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) could make millions of books illegal in Europe, forcing publishers to pulp stock and raising costs for readers.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Guest Post — If a Tree Falls with Nobody Around to Record its Exact Location, Was it Even Compliant? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/25/g...
Education Dept. to End Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions, Affecting Hundreds of Colleges
www.chronicle.com/article/educ...
www.chronicle.com/article/educ...
Education Dept. to End Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions, Affecting Hundreds of Colleges
The Trump administration argued that such grants are discriminatory “by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas.”
www.chronicle.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Education Dept. to End Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions, Affecting Hundreds of Colleges
www.chronicle.com/article/educ...
www.chronicle.com/article/educ...
Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...
Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit
A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
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September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...
The urgency of science fiction www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
The Urgency of Science Fiction
The genre, often overlooked by the academy, doesn’t just forecast the future. It provides some of literature’s most vital insights into the here and now.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The urgency of science fiction www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...