higher education

Jena Zangs’s short, practical recommendation — summarize before you upload — is the clearest, most actionable piece of AI safety advice a campus administrator can hear right now. As universities rush to fold generative AI into advising, administration, research and classroom workflows, the...

Barry University’s drive to become an “AI‑integrated university” is emblematic of a broader shift on U.S. campuses: administrators are moving beyond pilot programs to embed generative AI across marketing, enrollment, planning, and analytics — but they’re doing so while wrestling with serious...

The University of Georgia has launched a campus AI pilot program for students, marking the latest chapter in a nationwide push by colleges to move beyond blanket bans and toward guided, institution‑level adoption of generative AI tools — a shift that promises productivity and new learning...

Michigan State University’s student-run AI Club has become a surprising — and instructive — bellwether for how tomorrow’s workforce is learning to live with generative artificial intelligence: enthusiastic about the tools, pragmatic about the limits, and deliberate about teaching both techniques...

Oglethorpe University’s upcoming On Mutual Ground conversation, “Ethics and the Future of AI,” is a timely microcosm of a national reckoning: students and campus leaders are trying to translate the abstract ethics debates about generative AI into classroom practice, institutional policy, and...

Marquette’s new AI Task Force has opened the conversation on campus by sending a short, targeted survey to all faculty and staff asking how artificial intelligence is — or isn’t — being used across teaching, clinical education, research, administrative operations and student success, and the...

The UAE’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has launched a formal R&D collaboration with Microsoft to design and prototype agentic AI systems for higher education — a coordinated effort to build four specialized AI agents that target career navigation, faculty course...

The UAE’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has entered into a formal collaboration with Microsoft to design, research and prototype a set of AI-driven agents that aim to reshape the higher‑education experience — from student learning and career navigation to faculty...

Valve has told customers it can no longer lock in exact launch dates or prices for the Steam Machine family because AI-driven memory and storage shortages have materially changed component availability and costs since the devices were announced, and the company will “revisit our exact shipping...

Loyola University’s recent push to fold artificial intelligence into campus life — adding two AI minors, launching an AI lab, standing up student groups, and provisioning Microsoft Copilot for students — is more than a curricular tweak: it is a full‑spectrum effort to make AI literacy a visible...

Penn State’s IT Learning and Development team has quietly opened the doors to a practical, hands-on AI enablement program aimed at moving faculty and staff beyond curiosity and toward everyday use of generative assistants — starting with Microsoft Copilot. The AI Guides Program entered a soft...

College administrators are leaning into AI chatbots as quiet partners—using them to parse regulations, draft communications, summarize enrollment trends and even stress‑test strategy—but the rapid expansion of that “shadow” use is colliding with legacy privacy rules, brittle governance and a...

The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft that will give every student and member of staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot and accompanying training — a campus‑wide rollout covering some 65,000 people and scheduled for completion by summer 2026...

Microsoft’s pitch that unified data and AI can help colleges move from reaction to anticipation — improving student success, streamlining operations, and accelerating research — is both persuasive and practical on paper, but the reality for campus IT leaders is a complex blend of technical lift...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has established what multiple reports describe as a decisive early lead on U.S. college campuses, with syndicated coverage citing a Bloomberg report that OpenAI has sold roughly 700,000 ChatGPT licenses to about 35 public universities and campus telemetry showing millions of...

Muroran Institute of Technology’s rapid, campus‑wide adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant milestone in how a mid‑sized engineering university can translate a strategic “Digital Campus” vision into measurable operational change and new service delivery models for students...

The Carson College of Business recently staged a focused, two‑day immersion into practical AI literacy—an inaugural AI@Carson Workshop held Nov. 1–2 at WSU Pullman’s Spark Academic Innovation Hub that brought roughly 60 students together to learn prompt engineering, ethics, discipline‑specific...

University of Phoenix’s new centralized AI Center for students represents a decisive step toward mainstreaming generative AI literacy and practices across a large, working-adult population of learners, pairing tool access with policy, ethics, and practical instruction to help students use AI...

University of Phoenix has launched a centralized Center for AI Resources, a student‑facing hub intended to teach working adult learners, faculty and staff how to use generative AI (GenAI) ethically, safely and effectively—bundling plain‑language AI literacy, course‑aligned expectations, hands‑on...

University of Phoenix has launched a centralized Center for AI Resources to give working adult learners, faculty and staff a single, policy‑aligned hub for learning what generative AI is, how to use it responsibly in coursework, and how to apply AI skills for career-relevant outcomes. Background...