A Strategy for Integrating Artificial Intelligence at Historically Black Colleges & Universities

by S. Keith Hargrove Disruption in higher education is now more commonplace, as we reflect on the pandemic and governmental policies and oversight. Disruption normally recognized in industry, the pace of technology discovered through research or adopting emerging technologies are why colleges and universities exist to assess their impact in human society. It aligns with the mission of learning, scholarly inquiry and innovation, and external engagement. For many Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), disruption may have a greater impact in operations and how students learn compared to traditional methods. In an article previously prepared for Diversity in Action magazine, I share the same premise for many of our HBCUs. For us administrators in academia, we seem to succumb to the invasion of a learning and capability tool that is transforming the demonstration of knowledge and intellectual output of our students, and the opportunity to increase faculty and administrator productivity in time and effort. Thus, artificial intelligence (AI) has been beneficial and troublesome for the servers of classroom information and the use to improve workflow and automate many operations commonly exercised throughout the university. Of course, many of us are accustomed to AI in our daily lives (eg. Siri, Alexa,...