A weekly letter for people who teach
The Friday Harvest
One email a week. What changed in AI and higher education, what lands on your desk because of it, and one thing you can actually do about it before Monday.
Written by a college faculty member who still grades every week.
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Every issue
Every past issue stays up, dated and sourced. Nothing gets quietly edited after the fact.
Issue 006 . October 2, 2026
Dartmouth wrote clear AI rules for students, then a detector flagged its provost and the president said the campus needs rules for every role. Your syllabus tells students where the line is. Does it say where yours is?
Read issue 006
Issue 005 . September 18, 2026
OpenAI shipped a legal model with a licensed index over almost every published American court opinion, then published its score. Fifty four percent. The number is not the story. Having a number is.
Read issue 005
Issue 004 . September 4, 2026
Three AI assistants failed inside one Thursday morning. On Friday nothing broke at all, and the newest model still went to business customers first. Two failures, two causes, one sentence that fixes both.
Read issue 004
Issue 003 . August 28, 2026
MIT advised against relying on AI detectors on Monday. On Thursday a randomized trial from OpenAI Economic Research and Bocconi University found the rubric sees the polish and misses the thinking. Detection and the grade, in one week.
Read issue 003
Issue 002 . August 21, 2026
Three companies shipped student AI in forty eight hours and two of them read a syllabus as data. Extraction finds every date and drops every reason. Plus an honest read on ChatGPT for Teens, and a fifteen minute two column pass on your own syllabus.
Read issue 002
Issue 001 . August 15, 2026
It did not give you anything back. Plus the faculty retirement number nobody is connecting to it, and the free tool that just became a lottery.
Read issue 001
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