Dr. Anthony Edwards

 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...

Working in higher education, I have no shortage of success metrics.  Having  a science background, I tend to find comfort describing my performance using numbers.  As a teacher of students and leader of my department, I regularly have to provide feedback on progress toward achieving academic or organizational goals.  My wife,  Dr. Jennifer Edwards , also a faculty administrator taught me a valuable success metric while teaching our daughter about what we do every day. After coming home from work, my wife called me over from the kitchen to hear our daughter tell us something she learned that day.  When I arrived, our preschooler explained to me that "quantitative means numbers and qualitative means words."  While my daughter learned something about data, I learned something about success.

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