The Bottom Line
Fund the People, Not the Platforms
The question doesn't have a technology answer. It has a human answer.
✗ What Most Fund
✓ What Actually Works
$
Licenses
— bulk subscriptions to AI tools
📋
One-time workshops
— "intro to ChatGPT"
📧
Policy memos
— guidelines without support
🎥
Vendor training
— teaches the interface
👤
AI Leads
— dedicated staff who own the function
🔄
Ongoing practice
— embedded, continuous support
🏢
Resource centers
— office hours, 1:1 coaching
📊
Measurement
— are people actually getting better?
The Human Infrastructure Stack
AI Lead / Coordinator
owns the function
Resource Center
office hours, coaching
← minimum viable
Faculty Fellows
peer champions
Student Assistants
support capacity
The AI will keep changing.
The human infrastructure is what makes it useful.
Not a workshop. A permanent institutional function.
Measure
Faculty AI fluency benchmarks
Measure
Integration into course design
Measure
Administrative efficiency gains
Measure
Student preparedness metrics