Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it

Colleges and universities are taking on different approaches to how their students are using AI – but with a shared recognition that they cannot prevent it altogether.

By: Vicki Baker, Albion College and Linda M. Boland, University of Richmond, The Conversation

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Published: February 23, 2026

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Last Updated: 10 hours, 1 minute ago

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By Vicki Baker, Albion College and Linda M. Boland, University of Richmond

What happens to a college education when a chatbot can draft an essay, summarize a reading and generate computer code in seconds? The arrival of artificial intelligence in college classrooms has been swift and, for many schools, disorienting.

As professors of economics and business management and biology at liberal arts colleges, we are confronting a question that now cuts across all colleges …

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