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• Use GenAI to slow down and reflect more deeply - Sam Illingworth, Times Higher Education
  GenAI is often presented to academics as a tool for acceleration. Marking can be automated, lecture slides summarised in seconds and drafts polished at speed. The message is clear: do the same work, only faster. Yet, this framing risks reinforcing an already unsustainable level of efficiency. What if, instead of speeding up, GenAI could help […]
• Opinion: Higher education needs to catch up with AI, not run from it - Teresa Butzerin, Willamette Collegian
  Given that AI will only become more prevalent in our lives, universities should be taking more formal steps to make sure graduating students are literate in the practical uses of AI and leave college with a well-rounded understanding of the ethical issues surrounding it. While the threat AI poses to academic integrity has caused it […]
• Teaching with AI: From Prohibition to Partnership for Critical Thinking - Michael Kiener, Faculty Focus
  However, banning AI will not prevent students from using it, whether for nefarious or appropriate purposes. Instead, it may deny students a chance to practice and engage with AI in an educational setting where they and faculty can explore its full potential collaboratively. This kind of restrictive thinking is based on two flawed assumptions: that […]
• Transitioning to the Agentic University 2026–27 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  Most of us in higher education are now familiar with generative AI bots, where you formulate a prompt and get a reply. Yet, we are now beginning the advancement to agentic AI, the autonomous 24-7 project manager. The dramatic enhancement in the capability of AI as it moves from bots to agents will bring about […]
• Agents for growth: Turning AI promise into impact - Kelly, Lisa Harkness, and Steve Reis - McKinsey
  As CEOs and CMOs ask where AI is moving from hype to real results, frontrunners demonstrate that tighter human–AI collaboration and sharper governance is required. Value comes from end-to-end change. Broad productivity wins are table stakes. Impact comes from prioritizing the biggest growth problems and then solving them end to end in a domain. Reimagine […]
• Student Mental Health Challenges Persist - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed
  Students’ mental health and overall well-being continue to lag, finds Inside Higher Ed’s Student Voice survey, even as campuses expand support services. Just 27 percent of undergraduates describe their mental health as above average or excellent, according to new data from Inside Higher Ed’s main annual Student Voice survey of more than 5,000 undergraduates at […]
• Can creativity still exist in a world of Artificial Intelligence? - Bailee McLeod, Avondale
  Our relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ever evolving. The continual advancement of the technology means our interactions with it can change, almost daily. What started as asking Siri to ‘call mum’ evolved to asking Google to ‘turn down the air conditioning’, to now asking Chat to make an itinerary of our three-week Euro vacation, […]
• Redefining Learning: How Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Education - digitalLEARNING Network
  We are living through one of the most profound transformations in the history of education. The industrial model of learning is being replaced by a new paradigm that values experience, adaptability, and creativity. For decades, education has been structured around the transfer of information; now, we are moving toward the cultivation of intelligence itself — […]
• Explainable artificial intelligence for predictive modeling of student stress in higher education - Rasikh Tariq, et al; Nature
  Student stress in higher education remains a pervasive problem, yet many institutions lack affordable, scalable, and interpretable tools for its detection and management. The objective of this research is to develop a cost-effective, survey-based stress classification model using multiple machine learning algorithms and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to support transparent and actionable decision-making in educational […]
• Opinion: Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions — AI Today and Tomorrow - Jim A. Jorstad, GovTech
  To prepare students for a world so saturated with technology, it has arguably never been more important to speculate on the possibilities of our future, and how we can prepare for it. In business, science and education, we are now continually searching for clues about the future of artificial intelligence. In October 2006, I had […]
• Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities - Rachele Dini, LA Review of Books
  The Guardian published “A Machine-Shaped Hand” on March 12, a day after Altman first shared it on X. A callout link at the top of the page directed readers to Jeanette Winterson’s response, “OpenAI’s Metafictional Short Story About Grief Is Beautiful and Moving”—a not-so-subtly titled piece that, while making an unconvincing case for the story’s […]
• EDUCAUSE ’25: 3 Questions to Guide Higher Ed AI Strategy - GovTech
  Many colleges and universities see the need for an institutional AI strategy, but there are so many variables involved that it can be hard for IT leaders to know where to begin. Addressing an audience of such leaders at the 2025 EDUCAUSE annual conference in Nashville this week, Managing Director Alexander Brown of technology consulting […]
• President Aoun outlines roadmap for higher ed in the age of AI - Cyrus Moulton, Northeastern
  Artificial intelligence can do your research and write your term paper. It cannot, however, interpret your professor’s expression when you hand that paper in. Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun said higher education’s role is to teach how to navigate such a situation. “The value of higher education is to raise those questions about the […]
• How Strategy Champions win - McKinsey
  Only one in five companies believe they have high-quality strategy. What do such Strategy Champions have in common? They excel at designing bold strategies—and are even better at mobilizing their execution. Crafting a strategy—the process of making coherent, hard-to-reverse choices under uncertainty with the aim of building long-term value—has always been demanding. In 2010, only […]
• Here are 6 ways data analytics will change in higher ed - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Data analytics are increasingly vital for streamlining campus operations and driving strategy to improve the student experience. AI has spawned a web of technologies and practices that should lead to more advancements, according to a new report from EDUCAUSE, an education technology nonprofit. “The future of institutional effectiveness, student success and innovation will hinge on […]
• Data Points - McKinsey
  How does AI learn to see, hear, and think all at once? As multimodal gen AI models evolve rapidly, they are reshaping how organizations process and generate information—from interpreting complex visuals to answering questions across multiple formats and data types. Costs are dropping, capabilities are multiplying, and the business implications are profound. Think you’re up […]
• The role of online platforms in building a flexible future for education - Tech Funding News
  The landscape of education has changed dramatically in recent years, and the evolution is only speeding up. Traditional methods of learning, which typically require students to be present in physical classrooms at set times, are gradually giving way to digital platforms that offer unprecedented flexibility. With technology shaping the future of education, students are now […]
• Worst to first: What it takes to build or remake a world-class team - McKinsey
  Building a team is hard; building a winning team is even harder. For every organization that manages to achieve the right mix of talent, culture, and performance expectations, many more find themselves lacking in one area or another. Consider the following cautionary tales. One team of “superstars” in a large technology organization failed to gel […]
• Shorter term, bigger gain? More colleges try eight-week calendar - Amy Dipierro, EdSource
  In eight-week terms, two courses are a full course load, rather than four or five in semesters.Supporters say compressed terms attract and retain busy students juggling work and family.But there’s limited large-scale research on shorter terms and switching to a new calendar requires big campus-wide changes.https://edsource.org/2025/accelerated-learning-community-colleges/743832
• College grads who land better jobs right out of school still earn more than their peers 5 years into their careers, study finds - CNBC
  Launching your professional career after college can be difficult, especially if you’re graduating into a challenging job market. And if simply landing a job isn’t stressful enough, new research shows that first job can have a lasting impact on your earning power. Every additional $1,000 students earn in their first job out of college translates […]