E312 - Closing Higher Education's AI Readiness Gap with Human-First Transformation

AI adoption in higher education is moving faster than institutional change models were built to handle. Students are already using AI at high rates, while many institutions are still trying to decide where AI belongs, who should lead it, and how much change is required.

In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Nikki Barua, serial entrepreneur and founder of FlipWork, about why higher education's traditional change management playbook will not work in the AI age.

Drawing on her work with Fortune 500 companies and AI implementation, Barua explains why A...