There Is No Middle: AI Strategy Your Campus Can't Defer

Webinar
Date: April 7, 2026
Time: 1:00 pm

Your campus doesn't have an AI problem. It has an AI coordination crisis.

AI tools are already proliferating across departments, often without IT or institutional leadership's knowledge, legal review, or procurement involvement. The question now is whether your institution will lead the ongoing transformation or be led by it.

In this high-impact session, Robert Clougherty, AI Lead at Edge, delivers a clear-eyed argument for higher education leaders: there is no middle ground. Institutions that attempt to straddle legacy operations and AI-ready models aren't being cautious. Instead, they're running an unfunded, unorganized adoption mandate that exhausts staff, fragments governance, and signals to students, faculty candidates, and accreditors that your institution is an observer rather than a participant in the next era of learning. Drawing on real-world patterns from institutions across the sector, this session reframes AI not as a technology decision, but as a leadership decision that touches governance structures, institutional culture, and the untapped goldmine of data your campus is already sitting on.

Key Takeaways:

• Why coordination is the real barrier to effective AI adoption, and how to diagnose where your institution stands
• The Technology x Governance x Culture framework, and why moving only one lever is guaranteed to stall progress
• How to identify the untapped data your campus is already sitting on and put it to work
• What real governance looks like, including decision-rights mapping and approval flows that prevent the "pilot graveyard" trap
• Six concrete moves presidents and provosts can make immediately, no technical background required