It’s astonishing that most professors, administrators and even donors don’t see the proverbial train barreling down the tracks, perhaps like how climate deniers cannot calculate storms, rainfall, floods, droughts and unbearable summers. Maybe it’s just a repeat of the Luddite phenomenon that surrounds the adoption of all new technology. Who knows, but worse, many universities have actually banned GenAI which is a naïve attempt to regulate a technology more compelling than the Internet and in so doing have actually provided encouragement to faculty and administrators to pretend that GenAI and its CustomGPT children are more of a threat than a service. Further, faculty who have not used GenAI to develop and deliver courses have already missed an extraordinary opportunity to improve the learning process for their students and increase the learning outcomes of their courses.
