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Lately, keeping up with higher education news in the U.S. has been a challenge. That said, I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day, comforted by the fact that waiting for me is the opening game of this year’s Women’s Indian Premier League (cricket). Finally! Go Delhi Capitals!

My giddy dean

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the new DEC global survey on faculty attitudes toward AI. I described how the survey revealed a “lingering ambivalence” among faculty—some viewed AI positively, but most were uncertain about its benefits and even the risks it might pose.

This ambivalence, however, does not appear to be shared by their deans—at least not in business schools. In October of last year, the business school accreditor AACSB surveyed faculty and administrators at 321 member institutions across 61 countries. The results are striking: deans and faculty held very different views on the extent to which AI use is encouraged at their institutions.

These differences are quite significant, particularly when it comes to teaching and learning. The percentages below reflect the share of deans and faculty who somewhat or strongly agree that “their business school encourages” AI use, based on the chart above.

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