If colleges continue to start from nearly the same aspirations, students comparing similar institutions will continue to fall back on the differences they can see most easily.
American researchers are among the least convinced about AI's potential, a sentiment that tracks with low confidence in their preparedness and their institutions' ability to govern the technology.
AI will not eliminate the need for expertise, judgment or rigorous education. But it changes what students need to learn, how they can learn it, and what universities must deliver.
As a campus leader, you probably know students are using your school's AI agents to find support at all hours. But you may be looking for more insight on the problems that today's students are turning to chatbots to solve.
Universities are often excellent at accounting for what happened. We are less consistent at understanding what is happening inside individual academic programs while there is still time to respond.
Spring negotiations reward families with counselors and competing offers, while first-generation and low-income families see the sticker and walk away.
