Higher education’s grade inflation conundrum
Grade inflation is all the rage in higher education. Harvard has a proposal to reduce the number of A’s it awards. A Yale faculty committee proposed that 3.0 should be the…
Strengthening campus pathways to student mental health care
Among college students, 37 percent report moderate to severe depressive symptoms and 33 percent report moderate to severe anxiety. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of college students report moderate or high stress…
Intentional governance: Responsibility, judgment, and leadership in the age of intelligent systems
Artificial intelligence is changing the conditions under which institutional purpose is interpreted, pursued, and realized through the exercise of institutional judgment. As institutions increasingly adopt AI, discussions related…
Escaping the tech debt trap: Why governance matters more in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence is now emerging as a strategic priority across higher education, but many institutions are still determining how to move from experimentation to institution-wide adoption.
What “friction maxxing” teaches us about IT skill development in the age of AI
As AI adoption accelerates, a countertrend has emerged that reinforces the old saying: What goes around comes around. After spending years looking for ways to remove friction from…
Building AI that teaches: Scaling learning systems
I’ve spent nine years building learning infrastructure, and during that time I’ve gone from staff engineer to founding member of our first AI engineering team. Along the way,…
Most states struggle to bring adult learners back to college
Most states still rely on fragmented, short-term initiatives to support adult learners rather than coordinated statewide strategies, according to new research from ReUp Education.
The case for centralized admissions in graduate medical education
Centralized application services transformed how students apply to medical school. They gave applicants a single point of entry, standardized how programs receive and review data, and provided comparable…
Nobody’s a loser: What genuine education leaders realize
My father, Jake M. Schrum, would take me with him to cattle shows and sales. As an impressionable teenager, I treasured these outings mostly to have one-on-one time…
Beyond governance: Purpose, ethics, visibility, assurance, and compliance in the age of AI
Higher education continues to treat AI as just another technology to be deployed, managed, and governed. That assumption is increasingly inadequate. While AI bears some similarities to previous…