Who Decided This Was Safe? Building AI Governance That Answers by Name

Webinar
Date: December 8, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm ET

Most institutions now have an AI policy. Far fewer can say who decided a particular AI tool was safe for the data it touches. AI arrives on campus through every door at once: enterprise platforms, new features switched on inside tools you already own, and inexpensive apps adopted by individual offices. When a trustee, an accreditor, or a student asks who approved it, the answer is usually reasonable, spread across several offices, and missing a name.

In this webinar, Robert J. Clougherty, Ph.D., AI Lead at Edge, shows how institutions move from AI policy to working AI governance. He lays out four owners for four questions, a front door that catches free tools and unrequested features, vendor evaluation floors that a polished demo cannot buy back, and five measures that show whether governance is actually working. The model adapts to institutions of any size and connects to campus shared governance rather than replacing it. Participants will leave with a one-page self-assessment for scoring their own institution.

Key takeaways:

• Why the AI governance gap lives between offices rather than inside them, and how to give every AI decision exactly one owner
• The four questions every institution should be able to answer by name, and the four bodies that answer them
• Five review triggers that bring free tools and newly activated AI features through the front door
• Why evaluation floors protect your data better than weighted scorecards
• Five measures that show whether your governance is working, including the one accreditors are starting to ask about

Who should attend:
Presidents and cabinet officers, CIOs, provosts and academic leaders, enrollment and finance leaders, privacy and compliance officers, and anyone leading a campus AI task force.

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