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Shea Vance

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Reporting on higher ed @chronicle.com. Barnard alum. Email: shea.vance@chronicle.com Signal: @sheavance.99

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 9m
New: The Chronicle surveyed 460 academics about the use of generative AI, including how respondents were using these tools and what uses they considered acceptable. Here's what they told us: chroni.cl/3U2EHCX
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Most Academics Haven’t Used AI to Write, But Think it Might Be Okay, Chronicle Survey Finds
Opinions on acceptable use varied by discipline.
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 8m
We asked 460 academics about where they draw the line with AI use in publishing and what their institutions are doing about AI. The results, you may be shocked to learn, vary. Check it out here @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/most...
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Most Academics Haven’t Used AI to Write, But Think it Might Be Okay, Chronicle Survey Finds
Opinions on acceptable use varied by discipline.
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: U. Mich is pumping the brakes on its plan to pass/fail first-semester freshmen in one of its colleges. The president wrote to admins that "distorted" media coverage of the plan could hurt the reputations of the university and its students. For @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
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U. of Michigan Leaders Hit the Brakes on Pass/Fail
Citing “distorted narratives” about the university’s students in the news media, the president said more “input, analysis, and discussion” is needed before the pilot project begins.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 24/09/2026
Students at Dartmouth are required to disclose any use of AI in coursework to their professors, at the risk of facing disciplinary action. But the college's chief academic officer, the provost, said that he has used AI without disclosure in a range of published work. chroni.cl/3TNwqTi
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Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.
The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI.
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s hard to discourage students from using AI. It’s harder when the provost does it in his published work, professors said. A look inside Dartmouth’s campus firestorm over its chief academic officer’s AI use, with @garrettshanley.bsky.social for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/dart...
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Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.
The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI.
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici plans to introduce legislation next week regulating AI in higher education, focusing on work-force readiness, student-data privacy, and responsible use of AI in the classroom. Details in @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/cong...
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Congress Crawls Toward Higher-Ed AI Regulation
A bill to be introduced next week will focus on work-force readiness, student-data privacy, and responsible use of AI in the classroom.
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A book out next week from the Smithsonian claims to settle the debate about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. But at the eleventh hour, a Hemings relative who gave DNA to the study has dropped out. Her worry: the science in the book hasn't been vetted. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Sally Hemings’s Oldest Descendant Gave the Smithsonian Her DNA. She Says It Lost Her Trust.
On the eve of a new book that promises to settle the debate about Thomas Jefferson, a Sally Hemings relative is raising alarms that its science hasn’t been vetted.
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More professors are using AI as a co-author, copy editor, research assistant, or wholesale ghostwriter for their published work. It's sparked a debate over the meaning of authorship. From last week with @katiemangan.bsky.social for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Did These Academics Cheat When They Wrote With AI?
Scholars are divided over what uses are acceptable in their own work.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 15/09/2026
At Bates College, faculty approved a plan requiring students to study race both inside and outside their majors. But after years of debate, the requirement is now delayed until 2029. chroni.cl/4y23Psw
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How Bates College’s Curriculum Became a National Argument
After years of debate, a proposal to embed race in every major remains in limbo.
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I spoke with university scientists about AI-driven research in the Trump era of grantmaking. They're contemplating how humans can stay in control of the lab. For @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Trump Is Betting Big on AI-Driven Research. Can Human Beings Stay in Control?
Amid more than $3 billion in cuts, one windfall raises questions.
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Francie Diep @franciediep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yale continues to be an interesting case study in anti-Trump deal resistance. I attended a demonstration today, deliberately planned to break Yale's protest rules, where students, faculty and alumni called for no deal and looser protest rules, among other demands: www.chronicle.com/article/yale...
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Shea Vance @sheatvance.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For @chronicle.com, I profiled @emollick.bsky.social and Lilach Mollick, a pair urging colleges to embrace AI. “There’s too much waiting for the usual ed-tech companies to tell us how AI should shape education,” Ethan says. “I think that’s a tragedy.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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AI Is an Emergency. It’s Also an Opportunity.
Ethan and Lilach Mollick want colleges to stop treating LLMs as an enemy.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 03/08/2026
At a South Carolina college, at least 86 grades were raised without faculty knowledge, according to interviews, internal documents and a system report. The case raises questions about faculty authority, student records, and retention pressures. Read the full investigation. chroni.cl/4xi6g9w
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This College Changed Grades Behind Professors’ Backs. Then Things Got Weirder.
The fallout at a South Carolina technical college has laid tensions bare.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 11/08/2026
Starting next fall, the University of Michigan's largest will cover first-year students’ fall semester grades, which will appear on transcripts as pass/no credit and have no weight on grade point averages. The change has drawn ire — and cheers. chroni.cl/3TQO0FI
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U. Michigan’s Plan to Pass/Fail Freshmen Draws Ire — and Cheers
Critics are alarmed at the “bigger problem” they see.
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