@Jselingo and @MichaelBHorn discuss what’s next for higher Ed and talk with the newsmakers you want to hear from most. #highered
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Jeff's three takeaways from the Sunnyvale panel:
1. Radical transparency helps trust
2. Never underestimate the creativity of faculty
3. We're in a disruptive state. Accept it, and expect a steady state eventually
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Lightning round. Five years from now the degree is still worth it because faculty do ___ that AI can't.
Pradeep Khosla: adapt to use AI.
James Frazee: create work that requires human judgment.
@sonyachristian: develop people, not products.
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"We need to invest less in tools and more in people."
James Frazee on what stopped paying off, what started, and why the AI in Action videos had to be made by faculty for faculty.
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"You don't become a great institution by hiring dummies."
Pradeep Khosla, chancellor of @UCSanDiego, on why he refuses to run AI top-down: open all the lanes, censor nothing, and let a thousand flowers bloom.
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If AI can produce work that used to take years of education, what's the degree for?
@sonyachristian: it should certify AI readiness, meaning technical skills plus learning agility. And after years of arguing skills-first, she now says skills PLUS gen ed.
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The @CalCommColleges opened 13 AI fellowships. Over 200 faculty applied.
So @sonyachristian built a "tight-loose model": tight on principles like data privacy and human-in-the-loop, loose on what faculty actually build.
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Whose problem is the AI policy patchwork? James Frazee: neither faculty nor leadership.
@SDSU pays department chairs to work through survey data comparing their own department to the college and the system. Then gets out of the way.
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"We should not extol only the virtues of the technology. We should also bring up genuine concern for people and how this technology might shape humanity."
Pradeep Khosla chairs a UC-wide committee called AI for Humans and Humanity.
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Michael went in convinced the patchwork of campus AI policies was a problem to be solved.
@sonyachristian: "Is that a problem? To me, it's not a problem. If we had too much coherence in academia, that would be a problem."
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"When you choose to do something, you choose not to do something else."
Harvard's CIO on the hardest part of AI strategy: it's not about what pilots you start—it's what you stop. The maturity step no one talks about.
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"The deliberation that is perceived as at a glacial pace is not a bug, it's a feature."
James Frazee on the thing higher ed keeps apologizing for, and shouldn't.
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"We need to invest less in tools and more in people."
James Frazee on what's actually paid off at @SDSU: paying faculty to retrofit their own curriculum, because biologists want to hear from other biologists, not administrators.
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57% of college students use AI weekly. The same spring, commencement speakers got booed for praising it.
Pradeep Khosla: both are right. Students see amplification in their own hands, and job losses in everyone else's.
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A student can be encouraged to use AI in their 9 o'clock class, and expelled for doing the exact same thing at 10.
That's the elephant in the classroom. New episode, recorded live at @GoogleforEdu in Sunnyvale with an all-California panel.
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Every campus is launching AI pilots. But Clara Jelinkova asks the tougher question: what are you choosing NOT to do anymore?
Discernment > accumulation. Latest Future U. episode explores what coherent strategy actually means.
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The comprehensive university model is dying. For 50 years, colleges copied each other—if a school down the road offered it, you had to offer it too. Those days are over. New Season 10 episode breaks down what's next.
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The next phase of AI in higher ed isn't more experiments—it's letting go.
"What do you stop doing?" Clara Jelinkova on why knowing when to kill a pilot is the real leadership move. New episode drops insights from Google's summit.
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"Just because a college ranked above you offers a program doesn't mean you should." We're calling time on the comprehensive university era. Jeff unpacks the four tests every program should pass 🎓
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Your AI strategy has a hidden cost: everything else you're NOT doing.
Clara Jelinkova (Harvard CIO) on why maturity means discernment—deciding which experiments to stop, not just which to start. We unpack it in our latest.
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