About Higher Ed AI Playbook
The Higher Ed AI Playbook is a weekly newsletter for provosts, deans, presidents, and the academic leaders who are running the AI strategy for their institutions, whether or not it’s officially in their job description.
It’s written by Dr. Aviva Legatt: Founder of EdGenerative, Affiliated Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Forbes Contributor covering the intersection of education, AI, and leadership. Aviva advises university boards, presidents, and systems on AI governance, adoption strategy, and microcredentials, and curates the open-access AI Use Cases in Higher Education: A Community Handbook — the resource behind this newsletter.
Each issue takes one actual institutional AI question — workforce alignment, microcredential governance, faculty AI literacy, the new accountability rules, and walks through what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do this week. The conversation focuses on both the successes and the challenges of the tools your colleagues are using and building. And in case you’re wondering, there are no sales or vendor pitches.
What you get as a free subscriber
Every new issue delivered to your inbox. Practical, research-backed analysis written for the people making decisions, not just those writing thinkpieces about them. Access to the full publication archive.
What you get as a paid subscriber
Paid subscribers support the work and unlock the practitioner toolkit:
Monthly Use Case Lab — a live working session on Substack walking through one real institutional AI deployment in depth, the way the handbook is structured: governance, data flow, decision rights, and where institutions tend to get stuck.
Governance briefings — a focused written briefing on the policy, regulatory, and accreditation moves higher-ed leaders need on their radar (Workforce Pell, AHEAD rulemaking, state AI frameworks, NIST AI RMF updates).
Policy and guideline starter documents for internal committees at institutions of higher education
Member-only Q&As with Aviva — bring your institution’s specific situation and get insights and feedback.
Join the crew
The Higher Ed AI Playbook community is where: provosts, deans, system administrators, institutional researchers, and faculty leaders trading notes on what’s actually happening on their campuses. Participate in the comments section, share what’s working at your institution, or support this work with a subscription.
