06/12/2026
If you walked into a cabinet meeting or faculty senate discussion this week, chances are artificial intelligence would eventually come up.
Should students use it? What should graduates know about it? How should institutions prepare faculty? What happens when technology begins influencing long-standing assumptions about teaching, learning, and academic work?
Today's brief examines how institutions are answering those questions—and why the answers increasingly differ from campus to campus.
Few conversations in higher education are as complicated right now as the ones happening around artificial intelligence. Faculty members are redesigning assignments while trying to preserve academic integrity.