Leaders of the California State University system, the CSU, want it to become the nation’s first artificial intelligence-powered institution of its kind. It entered into a $17 million no-bid contract with OpenAI last year to provide students, faculty and staff with a new resource: ChatGPT Edu — a version of the popular generative AI chatbot…
Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), has announced a series of Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) focused on emerging areas of finance research, generative artificial intelligence, and technology-driven human resource management. Conducted in online mode, these programmes are designed to equip faculty members, researchers, doctoral scholars, and industry professionals with future-ready academic and research capabilities. As…
Listening to faculty concerns about generative AI can help institutions respond with more clarity, precision, and trust. Credit: Natalllenka.m / Shutterstock.com © 2026 Across higher education, conversations about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) often begin with questions about how to adopt it, where to apply it, and how quickly to do so. For many faculty, however,…
NORFOLK, Va. — A major shift in how some classes are taught at Old Dominion University is sparking pushback from faculty and raising questions from students, after the university’s Faculty Senate voted no confidence in President Dr. Brian Hemphill on Tuesday. The vote comes as ODU plans to move all online courses into eight-week formats…
The A.P. State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) is organising a five-day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on ‘Discipline-Specific Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ for faculty members of degree and professional colleges in Andhra Pradesh from March 2. The event will take place at the Executive Education Cell, School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad. The…
Georgetown Interim President Robert Groves announced that the university will “introduce generative AI tools to our community” in an email sent to students Monday morning. Georgetown will begin offering Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, to students, faculty, and staff beginning in March. “Since 2022, Georgetown has been engaged in multiple efforts to understand the possibilities offered…
About a quarter of faculty don’t use any AI tools at all, and about a third don’t use them in teaching, according to the survey. Oleh Stefaniak/iStock/Getty Images Plus Faculty overwhelmingly agree that generative artificial intelligence will have an impact on teaching and learning in higher education, but whether that impact is positive or negative…
