Betting On Me https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ Live Your Purpose Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:27:50 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: From AI Access to Institutional Capability | October 18, 2026 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-from-ai-access-to-institutional-capability/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-from-ai-access-to-institutional-capability/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7303 Georgetown's ChatGPT pilot shows what faculty can lose when personal AI accounts move into enterprise workspaces, a Kazakhstan study links AI governance readiness to students' intentions to stay enrolled, and federal grants fund AI capacity at UTPB, USF, Clark Atlanta, and Jacksonville University.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-from-ai-access-to-institutional-capability/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: The Capacity Gap Behind AI Ambition https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-the-capacity-gap-behind-ai-ambition-october-4/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-the-capacity-gap-behind-ai-ambition-october-4/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7284 Oregon's NVIDIA faculty program stalls with $1.5 million unspent, new NBER research finds no AI unemployment spike for 2026 graduates, and a study links faculty AI technostress to weaker professional identity. This week's theme: access to AI is easy; building the capacity to use it well is not.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-the-capacity-gap-behind-ai-ambition-october-4/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: Betting on Accountable Access https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-betting-on-accountable-access/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-betting-on-accountable-access/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:04:56 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7273 UNESCO ministers, Universities UK, SUNY, and Utrecht University moved AI governance from guidance to formal policy this week, while new research on disclosure and assessment literacy sharpens the case for institutional accountability over access alone.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-betting-on-accountable-access/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: What Higher Education Must Build Around AI https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-higher-education-must-build-around-ai/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-higher-education-must-build-around-ai/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:46:08 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7202 Two questions run beneath this week's AI signals: whether institutions can keep assessment standards consistent, and whether their faculty, curriculum, and computing infrastructure are ready for the work AI now demands.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-higher-education-must-build-around-ai/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: When a Polished Product No Longer Proves Learning https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-when-a-polished-product-no-longer-proves/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-when-a-polished-product-no-longer-proves/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:47:16 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7245 As AI makes finished products weaker proof of learning, institutions are redesigning assessment around evidence of thinking, while AI fluency spreads well beyond computer science.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-when-a-polished-product-no-longer-proves/feed/ 0 Some Things Still Require Humans: The Judgment Behind Saying Yes https://www.lynnfaustin.com/some-things-still-require-humans-what-my-first-pd-summit-presentation-taught-me/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/some-things-still-require-humans-what-my-first-pd-summit-presentation-taught-me/#respond Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7214 Fresh off finishing my doctorate and busier than ever, I said yes to my first faculty PD summit presentation anyway. Here's what that decision, and C-Man and Sir Claude a-lot, taught me about the judgment AI still can't do for us.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/some-things-still-require-humans-what-my-first-pd-summit-presentation-taught-me/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: What Counts as Proof of Learning Now https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-detectors-assessment-redesign/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-detectors-assessment-redesign/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:00:26 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7195 As faculty prepare for a new academic year, higher education is retiring AI detectors and facing a harder question: how to prove students actually learned. This edition covers the shift from detection to evidence of learning, OpenAI's new role-specific education plugins, and the widening gap between AI adoption and governance.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-detectors-assessment-redesign/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: What a Degree Is Worth Now https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-a-degree-is-worth-now/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-a-degree-is-worth-now/#respond Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:00:59 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7165 Two tensions defined the week in higher education and AI: a sharpening question about what a degree is worth, and a widening gap between AI access and the governance, faculty preparation, and assessment design needed to use it well. This edition covers the Ithaka S+R value brief, a 156,135-student study on AI and grades, and new AI degree programs from Chicago to South Dakota.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-a-degree-is-worth-now/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: The ROI Reality: Measuring Enterprise Impact https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-amp-higher-education-global-brief-july-19-2026-the-roi-reality-measuring/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-amp-higher-education-global-brief-july-19-2026-the-roi-reality-measuring/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:10:00 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7156 The era of AI experimentation in higher education is over. The conversation now is about ROI. This week's brief looks at why institutions are shifting to enterprise-wide metrics, how AI pedagogical agents are increasing STEM retention by 14 percent, and what the new EDUCAUSE framework means for campus strategy.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-amp-higher-education-global-brief-july-19-2026-the-roi-reality-measuring/feed/ 0 Preparing to Teach with AI: Six Faculty Roles for Reimagining Creative Teaching https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-to-teach-with-ai-six-faculty-roles/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-to-teach-with-ai-six-faculty-roles/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:21:36 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6935 Lead author Dr. Lynn F. Austin and co-authors offer six adaptable faculty roles for integrating AI into the classroom with purpose, integrity, and a student-centered mindset. Published in The Teaching Professor, August 2025.

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