"The challenge must be viewed as a collaboration between administration, faculty, staff and, yes, students, where each constituent group has an opportunity to articulate their views under the umbrella of those root institutional values. As part of this process, there must be space for difference that preserves individual freedoms. Faculty should both have the resources necessary to experiment with AI use and the power to refuse its integration. Students must ultimately be respected as the chief agents behind their own educations."
"The discussion must go beyond merely adding another untethered competency. As I say in that previous column, we must "do more than doing school." Layering AI on top of the status quo is a missed opportunity to reimagine the work of teaching and learning in ways that will make institutions far more resilient to whatever additional technological changes are coming."
Purdue University will add an AI working competency graduation requirement for first-year students entering Fall 2026. Institutions are confronting generative AI by evolving instruction and operations. Common approaches include engaging the entire university community to energize responses and refresh institutional work. Administrations must lead from institutional values. The challenge requires collaboration among administration, faculty, staff, and students, each articulating views under shared values. The process must preserve individual freedoms. Faculty need resources to experiment and authority to decline integration. Students must be respected as chief agents of their educations. AI integration should reimagine teaching rather than simply layer on existing practices.
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