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Weekly Review
November 18, 2022
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At AKA, we closely follow trends and latest developments
in higher education and
the nonprofit sector.
Here are some recent articles and reports that we found particularly informative.
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From The Atlantic:
The End of Affirmative Action Would be a Disaster
By Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
Some claim that affirmative action has already done what it initially set out to do. Using an array of data, the authors argue that this is far from true and that Black students’ educational opportunities remain separate and unequal. For example, predominantly white school districts collectively receive $23 billion more a year than predominantly nonwhite school districts. Read this article
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From The New York Times:
What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide?
By Thomas Homer-Dixon and Johan Rockström
The “perfect storm” metaphor applied to the world’s numerous simultaneous crises implies that their concurrence is a temporary coincidence and blinds us to the hidden processes by which these crises worsen each other, causing worldwide damage greater than the sum of their parts. Read this article
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From WIRED:
Dear Artists: Do Not Fear AI Image Generators
By Paul Ford
New systems, like the numerous AI image generators springing up, always seem, at first, to devalue craft, shift power, and wreck cultures and scenes. They do all of that. But the author suggests we do not have to choose between the AI-image generator’s “unthinking digital pseudo-brain” and the works produced by a single artist’s human mind. The miracle is that we can learn from both, whenever we like. Read this article
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From The Economist:
Climate adaptation: The challenge of the age
This special report
highlights different approaches to and rationales for climate adaptation, looking at the impact of different forms of governance, public vs. private funding, the role of business, and the moral case for greater support by rich countries for poor ones. Read this article
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