UT Arlington: AI Insights and Student Success Approach

Why it matters:

Jennifer Cowley shares how UT Arlington is approaching artificial intelligence challenges and removing institutional barriers to support diverse student populations.

AI opportunities and challenges:

• Views AI as both an opportunity and challenge for higher education
• Notes that workplace changes are happening “faster than what it takes to prepare a student”
• Students express concern about being “AI’d out of a job”
• Different adoption rates: Business programs integrating AI consistently while writing programs still determining best approaches

Removing institutional barriers:

• Found over 100 different registration “holds” creating unnecessary obstacles
• Eliminated most holds by requiring departments to petition to keep them
• Focus on making student experience “as frictionless as possible”