"For years, AI made its way into our institutions through incremental experiments-a pilot here, a classroom tool there. And then, seemingly overnight, higher education found itself confronting large questions at once: What is our core purpose now? How do we teach? What do our students need? What will our graduates face? And how do we lead when the ground continues to shift beneath us?"
"I convened three remarkable leaders-Amy Dittmar, provost of Rice University; Martha Pollack, president emerita of Cornell University; and Lynn Perry Wooten, president of Simmons University-to join me in an open conversation about how AI is reshaping higher education. I've learned from each of them at different points in my career, and it was a privilege to bring them together in Ann Arbor. My role was not to provide answers, but to help surface the insights and questions that leaders across higher education are wrestling with."
AI entered higher education through incremental pilots and classroom tools before accelerating into broad institutional disruption. Universities now face urgent questions about mission, pedagogy, student needs, graduate preparedness, and leadership amid continuous change. Engagement with AI is essential because AI already shapes learning, research, and the movement of knowledge. Institutional responses require balancing realism about meaningful risks with optimism about universities' capacity to interpret and guide technological change. Proactive strategies should align AI adoption with educational purpose, responsibility, and the public role of universities. Collective deliberation across campuses is necessary to surface insights, manage risks, and identify opportunities for student learning and research integrity.
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