Faculty-Led AI at Scale: From UC Santa Barbara to the California Community Colleges
At UC Santa Barbara, Kavitta Ghai recalls, students waited two days, on average, to get a question answered. For a student whose scholarship...
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20 of 331 episodesAI Guardrails for Universities: Why an AI Policy Needs a Tech Stack to Enforce It
Most AI risk at a university does not start with a hacker. It starts with a student, a faculty member, or a researcher copying something out...
FIRE's 2027 College Free Speech Rankings: What Actually Moves a School's Score
Texas A&M holds a green light rating for its speech policies and still fell from 47th to 192nd in this year's College Free Speech Rankings....
Washington Update: Title IV Risk, Neg Reg, and the Midterms
Student loan default and repayment rates have continued to be calculated through years of dormant collections, and some institutions could s...
How Gies Gives Every Junior a Live Client Project
Most institutions measure access at admission and affordability, then ration the experiences that actually change student outcomes to whoeve...
Workforce Readiness: Why Higher Ed Struggles to Use Employer Support
Workforce readiness is usually framed as a funding and program-design problem. In some states and at some institutions, the funding and the...
Diversifying Revenue Without Diluting Mission: Inside Rollins College's Innovation Triangle
Private colleges under enrollment pressure get told to diversify revenue. The venture that follows usually either fails to earn or drags the...
Adult Learners: Redesign, Don't Just Recruit
Institutions recruiting adult learners are inserting them into schedules, deadline policies, and course structures designed for 19-year-olds...
Reputation, Revenue, and the Cost of Silence in Higher Ed Communication
Most institutions in a crisis don't believe they're in one. The word calls up a scandal with a camera crew outside, and nothing on this week...
Why Is Enrollment Falling Short When Applications Are Up?
Applications keep climbing while the class comes up short. The gap sits in the phase most institutions treat as the finish line: what happen...
The Purpose of Liberal Arts Education in the Age of AI
The same students who say college costs too much are overwhelmingly saying it was worth it, and that contradiction is the key to the entire...
Building Fairleigh Dickinson's Lifelong Learning Ecosystem Across Five Generations
Program discontinuation is usually the fight presidents avoid. Fairleigh Dickinson University put a significant slate of program discontinua...
Pairing Liberal Arts with Tech Readiness: Five Institutional Decisions from Manhattan University
At Manhattan University, the case for the liberal arts is being made with outcomes, not nostalgia. Its graduates rank in the top 2% national...
Student Retention: Using AI to Spot Disengagement Before Dropout
Most retention systems flag struggling students through grades and attendance. By the time those indicators fire, many students are already...
Higher Ed's Trust Problem Isn't a PR Problem: AAC&U's Trust Agenda
Half of college presidents worried about public trust are answering with a public relations campaign. According to the AAC&U report at the c...
Why Research Funding Cuts Are a Strategic Risk, Not a Budget Problem
When the federal government freezes research funding, leaders tend to treat it as a budget problem: a number that was cut and might later be...
When AI Finds the Administrative Friction Higher Ed Leaders Miss
Most AI conversations in higher education focus on the academic side. The administrative side gets less attention and is producing the bigge...
Inside CSU's ChatGPT Edu Rollout Across 22 Universities
AI implementation in higher education is often framed as a technology question. California State University treated it as change management...
AI in Higher Education: Bias, Procurement, and Human Oversight
At sixteen, with straight A's in math and science, Dr. Karen Panetta's school career assessment told her to sell makeup or be a cook. A male...
AI-First Business Education: How Kogod Transformed Culture, Curriculum, and Faculty Adoption
Most business schools are still forming committees to figure out what to do about AI. Kogod School of Business at American University formed...