I really fucking hate when leaders of Black spaces/places use that term. 
Itās bad enough that itās a common trope for white politicians, leaders, or what have you to use itā¦ itās unconscionable for Black leaders to do so. Andre Dickens (ATL mayor) used it to discuss the cop city protesters. I lost pretty much all respect for him after that.
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When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classesā waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before.
āTeachers get excited when thereās a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, āGreat, Iām going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,āā Smith said. āBut it quickly became clear that was not the case.ā
By the end of the first two weeks of the semester, Smith had whittled down the 104 students enrolled in her classes, including those on the waitlist, to just 15. The rest, sheād concluded, were fake students, often referred to as bots.
āItās a surreal experience and itās just heartbreaking,ā Smith said. āIām not teaching, Iām playing a cop now.ā
The botsā goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes, and remaining enrolled in them, long enough for aid disbursements to go out.They often accomplish this by submitting AI-generated work. And because community colleges accept all applicants, theyāve been almost exclusively impacted by the fraud.
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I have not seen that over hereā¦ I guess itās another thing to be on the look out forā¦ 
[ETA] Not exactly related, but sort of?
I wonder what his angle isā¦
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āIf any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country,ā Vance said, āand for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.ā Or, as conservative activist Christopher Rufo put it in a New York Times piece exploring the attack campaign, āWe want to set them back a generation or two.ā
Well, there you goā¦
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Exactly. Cowardly appeasement and compliance of the sort that Columbia has so famously and shamefully demonstrated will not work.
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Exactly. All it got them was more demands without restoring the grants withheld. I like to think this played a part in Harvardās decision, and the Big 10 collegesā mutual defense pact, but I guess we shall see.
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