Will AI Break the University? - by Rory Truex - Civic Forum

Field Notes from a Tough Year

Will AI Break the University? Field Notes from a Tough Year Rory Truex May 19, 2026 282 62 89 Share As I write this, my students are taking an in-person exam on Chinese Politics. Three hours, closed book, no computers, pencil and paper. It’s Saturday morning. I am sitting outside a lecture hall, and they are emerging, slowly, with cramped hands, glad to be done with the test and the semester. I have been teaching for over ten years, and this is the first time I have ever done this sort of exam. My final has always been an open book take home test, where students have an eight-hour window to an

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