Leading in the AI Era

Generative AI is rapidly shaping how everyday Americans gather, understand, and share information — and creating efficiencies that will change how professionals do their jobs. In higher education, it is poised to remake how colleges work and how they demonstrate their public value.

That transformation will be no easy feat. Campus stakeholders are deeply ambivalent about the potential and threat of generative AI, and often divided.

Leading in the AI Era, a new in-depth report from The Chronicle, examines how institutions can responsibly and ethically meet the moment.

With exclusive survey data and reporting based on dozens of interviews, this report shows how innovative colleges are working to infuse their operations with AI, the guardrails they are building to avoid pitfalls, how they propose to evaluate their students’ learning, and how they envision paying for it all.

Readers of this report will:

• Learn from our survey of more than 900 stakeholders what hopes and fears they have about generative AI and what they think about their institutions' response to its rise.

• Find ways to balance innovation with appropriate caution.

• See how innovative institutions are improving decision making around generative AI.

• Know what factors to weigh when considering large purchases or licensing of the technology.