Artificial Intelligence in Student Affairs Administration
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been rapidly expanding in recent months. Tools in this area have the ability to create text, images, presentations, audio, and video using natural language prompts. The business world has been working to integrate these tools into everyday tasks. However, higher education may be slower to adopt the tools. On the academic side, there is concern that using artificial intelligence presents academic dishonesty issues. There is also concern that artificial intelligence may interfere with student learning and skill development. On the administrative side, there are many opportunities to integrate artificial intelligence, provided there are privacy and confidentiality protections. For example, entering student information into a language learning model (LLM) that is not sharing that data with the model via the Internet. Colleges can deploy closed models to prevent data breaches. Student affairs professionals can integrate AI i...