Building an AI Center of Excellence for Higher Education

Artificial intelligence is already embedded across higher education, albeit unevenly — and often, without a lot of coordination. Faculty are experimenting in the classroom, researchers are pushing boundaries, and staff are testing tools to improve operations. But without an established framework, such activity can quickly become fragmented, inconsistent and risky. That’s why some institutions are creating AI centers of excellence — a centralized, cross-functional model designed to guide adoption, governance and scale. While AI CoEs are well established in enterprise environments, higher…