Luke Waltzer
@lukewaltzer.bsky.social
Director, Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center, CUNY. Faculty in Digital Humanities and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
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Posts about higher ed, pedagogy, ed tech, history, sports, and funky music.
Teachers deserve to be challenged, too (and in some cases, undermined).
Student government should demand participation in academic policy process, and all governance advocacy should push institutions to hold space for refusal. The only way to realize this is collectively.
Student government should demand participation in academic policy process, and all governance advocacy should push institutions to hold space for refusal. The only way to realize this is collectively.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Teachers deserve to be challenged, too (and in some cases, undermined).
Student government should demand participation in academic policy process, and all governance advocacy should push institutions to hold space for refusal. The only way to realize this is collectively.
Student government should demand participation in academic policy process, and all governance advocacy should push institutions to hold space for refusal. The only way to realize this is collectively.
The headwinds are strong and challenges significant. But I agree with @mattseybold.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social: it's difficult to imagine a better place to pursue this work than CUNY.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The headwinds are strong and challenges significant. But I agree with @mattseybold.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social: it's difficult to imagine a better place to pursue this work than CUNY.
Out theory is that this is a solid space from which to assert faculty, staff, learner agency over the "means of knowledge production." This requires collaboration with academic governance, fac/staff unions, and legislative partners. It demands a strong and critical orientation, and elbow grease.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Out theory is that this is a solid space from which to assert faculty, staff, learner agency over the "means of knowledge production." This requires collaboration with academic governance, fac/staff unions, and legislative partners. It demands a strong and critical orientation, and elbow grease.
Discussions of "ethical use" of LLM-based tools are insufficient. Universities should be vast enough to accommodate R&D, purposeful adoption, resistance *and* refusal, and to plan and strategize from the productive tensions between those logical and defensible orientations.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Discussions of "ethical use" of LLM-based tools are insufficient. Universities should be vast enough to accommodate R&D, purposeful adoption, resistance *and* refusal, and to plan and strategize from the productive tensions between those logical and defensible orientations.
This is happening via cuny.is/cali and elsewhere, and includes fac development/communities of practice/mixed-methods multi-discipinary research.
It also includes building infrastructure/capacity to support small, focused applications built on open weight LLMs w/zero data retention & carbon logging
It also includes building infrastructure/capacity to support small, focused applications built on open weight LLMs w/zero data retention & carbon logging
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is happening via cuny.is/cali and elsewhere, and includes fac development/communities of practice/mixed-methods multi-discipinary research.
It also includes building infrastructure/capacity to support small, focused applications built on open weight LLMs w/zero data retention & carbon logging
It also includes building infrastructure/capacity to support small, focused applications built on open weight LLMs w/zero data retention & carbon logging
We are currently thinking through how the underlying principles that led to projects like the CUNY Academic Commons, Manifold, Blogs@Baruch, Vocat, OpenLab, CBox, ASHP, and the great OER work happening in CUNY's libraries should inform curricula, pedagogy, policy, and strategy related to genAI.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We are currently thinking through how the underlying principles that led to projects like the CUNY Academic Commons, Manifold, Blogs@Baruch, Vocat, OpenLab, CBox, ASHP, and the great OER work happening in CUNY's libraries should inform curricula, pedagogy, policy, and strategy related to genAI.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Yes grateful for that
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Yes grateful for that
Also so important to include legislators in this. NY, IL, CA (maybe some other states?) all have labor protections on books that faculty need to be aware of and need to be extended into university procurement
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Also so important to include legislators in this. NY, IL, CA (maybe some other states?) all have labor protections on books that faculty need to be aware of and need to be extended into university procurement
I agree, his stuff is everywhere and hers isn't. That she bodied him in the debate last night and is holding more cash for the stretch run make me more optimistic than I was a week ago...
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I agree, his stuff is everywhere and hers isn't. That she bodied him in the debate last night and is holding more cash for the stretch run make me more optimistic than I was a week ago...
Tbh a bit surprised as many as “some” see it this way.
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Tbh a bit surprised as many as “some” see it this way.
