During arms-control talks in the 1980s Ronald Reagan made “trust, but verify” one of the most quoted phrases of the era. Four decades later, prospective online and continuing education students appear to have quietly borrowed it back and pointed it directly at their search bar. Trust, but click. That is the story of AI Search…
Artificial intelligence has become part of higher education’s operating environment. New capabilities, applications, and predictions emerge almost daily. Staying informed is important, but awareness alone is not leadership. Leaders must determine what these developments mean for their institutions, their people, and the learners they serve. Leadership Conversations in the Age of AI begins an ongoing…
A follow-up from the 2026 SOLAR COLO Convening By Julie Uranis & Tim Lehmann FSA awards more than $120 billion a year to roughly 13 million students. Some of those enrollments are fraudulent. Fraud rings use stolen identities, synthetic identities assembled from real and fabricated information, and sometimes complicit individuals to enroll, obtain aid, and…
The UPCEA AI Study Group pilot confirmed something we heard consistently from participants: institutions are ready to move beyond simply exploring AI and toward building practical, responsible approaches for putting it to work. Across the pilot, participants discussed AI implementation, governance, institutional readiness, use cases, change management, student support, faculty development, and the practical work…
The first two articles in this series explored how the updated UPCEA Hallmarks of Excellence in Digital Learning Enterprises reflect the evolution of digital learning from a specialized initiative into an institutional opportunity and responsibility, and how institutional intentionality creates the conditions that support learner success. Those ideas begin within the institution, but the work…
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