You Already Work at Two Universities

Zach and DJ Hopkins from SDSU authored a new piece for Academe Blog on faculty workload and AI. “From the beginning of AI’s disruption of higher education, the focus has been on academic integrity. Meanwhile, we’ve missed a revolution in faculty effort resulting in another rupture, in addition to the familiar divides between science and the humanities and faculty in tenure-track and contingent faculty appointments.

We’re talking about AI users versus AI refusers, or colleagues who simply work as they always have, without making a conscious choice about AI use. How is this new divide surfacing in the academic workplace? In a word, productivity, distributed across every domain of faculty effort.”

Read the whole piece here: https://academeblog.org/2026/09/21/you-already-work-at-two-universities/