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Only 24% of Higher Ed’s AI Use Cases Can Define Success. Here Are 6 Lessons From One That Can.
UCF’s Knightbot has handled 585,000 student messages, resolves 85–88% of them without a human, and saves six full-time staff a year. What makes it work…
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Adoption Without Authority: What 50,000 Students and Faculty Just Revealed
Two of the largest higher-ed AI surveys ever fielded landed weeks apart. Read together, they show students embedded in AI, faculty retreating from it…
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UC San Diego Built Its Own AI — and Now Sells It to Berkeley
UC San Diego and the University of Delaware refused to hand their data to AI vendors — and the decision sequence that let them stay in control without…
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June 2026

I Analyzed 139 AI Use Cases in Higher Ed. Only 24% Could Define Success.
The most creative AI work in the sector and the most accountable AI work in the sector are mostly not the same projects — and that gap is the most…
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The Most Measured Student-Support AI in Higher Ed Isn’t Generative. That’s the Point.
Before the June 25 Use Case Lab with UCF’s Tyler Walsh: what a six-year-old chatbot serving 70,000 students reveals about the difference between a tool…
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9% Used AI to Cheat. The Other 91% Are Waiting on Their Faculty.
What the Science study of 95,513 students actually tells institutions to fix — and the three faculty-investment moves separating the systems getting it…
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AI Literacy Is the Floor. Fluency Is the Differentiator. Almost No Institution Is Producing It Yet.
The gap senior leaders need to close in the next eighteen months is not whether their students can use AI. It is whether their institutions can produce…
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Inside the Delaware AI Stack and the UCF One Coming June 25
Recap of the May 28 Use Case Lab with University of Delaware on PATHS Engine and the federated learning pilot, plus what's coming June 25 with UCF's…
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May 2026

Use Case Lab Live #2 with Nova Harris and Lauren Kelley (University of Delaware)
A recording from Higher Ed AI Playbook's live video
 • Higher Ed AI Playbook, Lauren Kelley, and Jevonia (Nova)
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Instructure Paid the Ransom. Higher Ed Just Discovered Its Vendor Concentration Problem.
What the Canvas Breach Reveals About the Structural Exposure Senior Leaders Have Quietly Accumulated
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Inside The Delaware Federated Learning Pilot
Live May 28: Use Case Lab with the Team Building PATHS Engine, UD Study AiDE, ACCREDIT!, and the AI Infrastructure Most Institutions Are Still Drafting…
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How to Build Microcredentials Employers Actually Recognize
Stackable, Badged, and Wired to the Workforce - Without Creating Portfolio Chaos
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