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How AI Is Changing Campus Cybersecurity: 4 Key Challenges

Artificial intelligence is amplifying cybersecurity risks in higher education by making threats like phishing more effective and vulnerabilities easier to exploit, while increasing pressure on institutions to strengthen security without sacrificing openness, innovation, or the academic mission. This episode examines four key challenges facing cybersecurity leaders.

Teaching and Learning with AI: Three Priorities

Generative artificial intelligence is pushing teaching and learning away from a model centered on producing answers and academic artifacts and toward one that places greater weight on process, judgment, reflection, and applied thinking. In conversations with campus leaders, three priorities emerged.

3 AI Fears in Higher Education

Across campuses, conversations about artificial intelligence are sometimes being framed by unease rather than enthusiasm. Leaders, faculty and students are questioning how fast to move, what might break and who bears the risk.

5 Lessons from the First Chief AI Officers

Colleges and universities have begun formalizing the chief AI officer role as they respond to the growing impact of generative artificial intelligence on teaching, research, and operations. Reflections from early incumbents point to five lessons about how AI leadership in higher education is taking shape.

Customizing AI for Institutional Efficiency

AI is helping campuses work faster without cutting staff. The University of Michigan and UC San Diego show how institution-specific tools save time, reduce costs, and deliver better support.

Will AI Close Accessibility Gaps—or Widen Them?

This episode explores how artificial intelligence can either bridge or widen accessibility gaps in higher education, emphasizing the need for inclusive design, representation, and collaboration with disability communities to ensure equitable innovation.

How Is AI Shaping Institutional Resilience?

As institutions face growing uncertainty—from enrollment shifts to changing job markets—many see AI not just as a tool, but as a lifeline. It’s helping colleges and universities rethink how they operate, offering new ways to adapt, respond, and build more sustainable futures.

Student Perspectives on Using AI

In this episode, we hear from three students who use AI to help them with their coursework. They also share their thoughts about how AI may serve their careers once they graduate.

Tips for Creating Inclusive Learning Spaces

Beyond implementing reactive changes, how can institutional leaders think about the ongoing effort to create inclusive learning environments? In this episode, we explore how designers can keep evolving their perspectives to help students and faculty feel comfortable to learn and engage.

Effective Faculty Development

On this episode, we discuss ways of effectively reaching faculty and how best to facilitate a sharing of ideas about teaching with technology.

A Rubric for DEI Course Design, Part Two

A community of educators created a rubric for designing courses that integrated the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility into the strategy. This episode will cover the second half of eight topics within the rubric. Read more about this topic in the article "A DEI Course Design Rubric: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Uncertain Times".

A Rubric for DEI Course Design, Part One

A working group of the University of California Instructional Design and Faculty Support (IDFS) community of practice has developed a DEI Course Redesign Rubric. This episode will introduce and cover the first four topics of the rubric. Read more about this topic in the article "A DEI Course Design Rubric: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Uncertain Times".