Artificial intelligence is already making a difference in academic research, and it’s poised for bigger things yet. In biology and chemistry, AI is coming up with novel proteins and drug candidates. AI will soon pitch designs for fusion reactors. And, of course, generative AI and large language models are of great interest in linguistics. Name a discipline, and there’s going to be AI involved, if it’s not involved already, both in advancing the field and in making it easier to teach and learn about that field.
Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that
Yoshitaka Iwasaki
August 3, 2026
