Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
Opinion | Alumni and graduate students see a hostile takeover of a storied department. https://chroni.cl/4j99Pcj
19.12.2025 20:16 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
As a PhD student in computer science, the kind of knowledge production that is being "innovated" away here is exactly what departments like mine could use a lot more of.
This is a real loss for CMU.
12.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
No one wants to watch their PhD program be eliminated. It’s nearly the same story when it’s “innovated” away.
Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
12.12.2025 18:44 — 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
Incredibly proud to have participated in this article
As the last PhD student accepted into the LCS program, I continue to feel the impact of these decisions
12.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
12.12.2025 18:18 — 👍 393 🔁 202 💬 16 📌 43
i touched drano earlier and i still can only slightly feel my fingertips
05.12.2024 01:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i think the gbbo judges really need to stop being so biased towards dylan like its actually upsetting how much they overlook his missing pastries and low quality nougatine structures
23.11.2024 05:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
found out my program will start taking phd students again but under a new name
really hoping we can get it to be Culture, Literature, and Institutional Theory
19.11.2024 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
i just saw this 🥺
07.06.2023 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
the vibes here are like going to a club with all the lights on
28.04.2023 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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