AI in Academia: A Guide for Administrators, Deans, & Department Chairs

If you are a dean, department chair, provost, or academic leader, you are likely facing a set of questions that did not exist five years ago. How should your institution respond to generative AI? What policies should you put in place? How do you support faculty who want to adopt AI tools while maintaining academic integrity?

The Intelligent Academic™ was created to help answer those questions — not with hype, but with practical, evidence-based guidance.

While most of this publication is written for individual faculty members, I also post content specifically relevant to academic leaders making decisions about AI at the departmental or institutional level. Some of the issues I discuss are:

AI Policy & Academic Integrity

How to write an AI use policy for your department that is clear, enforceable, and fair to students.
What the research actually says about AI detection tools and why they should not be your only strategy.

Faculty Development & Support

How to design a faculty workshop on AI that people actually want to attend.
A framework for supporting faculty at different levels of AI readiness, from skeptics to early adopters.

Strategic Planning

Questions every academic leader should be asking about AI right now.
How peer institutions are approaching AI adoption, and what you can learn from their successes and mistakes.

I update this page as new relevant posts are published. If you would like to discuss consulting, workshops, or speaking engagements for your institution, please reach out to me directly!