For nearly five decades I have watched the professoriate grow, shift, and reinvent itself. In that time, dire predictions have often failed to materialize. But what we are facing today—rapidly advancing, increasingly capable AI systems fully integrated into teaching, research, and administration—is different. And it demands decisions from academic leaders now, not later.

From “Rename and Remain” to “Reframe and Regain”: Reimagining Campus Inclusiveness
In my last article, I highlighted the crucial strategies of “person-first” and “targeted universalism” amid the wave of anti-DEI legislation in higher education. Initially, many of us embraced a “rename


