How CFOs in higher ed are approaching AI adoption in 2025
In this new report published October 2025, 30+ finance leaders at higher ed institutions offer their perspectives on:
- Attitudes and adoption rates of AI at universities across the country
- Real strategies on how to safely implement AI
- Ideas for fostering long-term AI readiness at your university
Establishing a human baseline for transcript reading accuracy
This first-of-its-kind survey reveals the true human and financial cost of manual transcript review, and why technology adoption requires understanding the baseline we're trying to improve.
- Due to the vast variability in formats, as well as competing priorities in admissions offices, human transcript readers are prone to errors
- Where traditional OCR solutions have failed, the ability of AI to pattern match across near-infinite formats introduces new opportunity for more accurate, faster, and less laborious transcript reading.
Will AI reshape the value proposition of higher ed?
The Chronicle of Higher Ed surveyed 800+ higher ed leaders and faculty in September 2025 and published their findings with our support.
Get the full report over at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Why traditional enrollment marketing falls short
1,300 emails and mailers per year.
That’s the median amount of outreach received by high school students today – and they aren’t happy about it.
How will AI change Student Affairs?
We asked 3,200+ college students what they think.
The AI adoption gap
Is AI investment keeping up with its potential in higher education? We asked 63 university leaders about their expectations.
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Generation AI
What does a generation raised in the technology age think about AI? We asked 18,000+ students to find out: the largest survey of its kind.
The higher ed financial outlook
Business officers share their perspectives on the changing financial future of higher ed.
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