Here is my advice for higher education executives facing the unprecedented challenges of the coming years: invest in your people first and the technology only to the extent you can afford it. If you purchase AI products, you need staff to make sure you do it right. They can help you implement it carefully and with an eye on your nearest exit. They will make sure any vendor selling AI can explain to you how their product arrives at its outputs and how they protect institutional data.
Thanks for this, Rob. Context is King, and you’re offering a valuable perspective for all university human improvement workers. Hobb’s Leviathan has been quietly moving through the depths, preparing for this Trumpian moment. I’m not prepared to comment on your comparison between 1877 and 2025 in terms of which is more bad, but you’ve powerfully captured an angle on where we are by way of the comparison. It IS bad. The advice to university admin to draw on local experts and give them the tools and time the campus can afford to begin the integration work is sound. Readers ought to share this post widely among the admin types they know. Your experience as one of them with a voice of reason is sorely needed. Nice work!
Thanks, Terry. One of the things I took away from my conversations at the conference I attended early this week is that while there are campuses that were having discussions about this topic, the crisis emanating from Washington is taking up all the attention. It isn't clear when any attention will come back to these campus-based conversations.
Thanks for this, Rob. Context is King, and you’re offering a valuable perspective for all university human improvement workers. Hobb’s Leviathan has been quietly moving through the depths, preparing for this Trumpian moment. I’m not prepared to comment on your comparison between 1877 and 2025 in terms of which is more bad, but you’ve powerfully captured an angle on where we are by way of the comparison. It IS bad. The advice to university admin to draw on local experts and give them the tools and time the campus can afford to begin the integration work is sound. Readers ought to share this post widely among the admin types they know. Your experience as one of them with a voice of reason is sorely needed. Nice work!
Thanks, Terry. One of the things I took away from my conversations at the conference I attended early this week is that while there are campuses that were having discussions about this topic, the crisis emanating from Washington is taking up all the attention. It isn't clear when any attention will come back to these campus-based conversations.
I understand. It is horrific and barbaric.