AI implementation increases the invisible emotional and relational labor of associate deans, which remains unquantified in leadership evaluations¶
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q2 i? Associate deans report that AI implementation significantly increased their invisible labor, including soothing faculty fears, managing ethical dilemmas, and fostering community resilience, work the authors describe as gendered and undervalued. → Dozier 2026
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Dozier 2026¶
Dozier, V., & Molina, S. C. (2026). Leading From the Precipice: How Academic Deans Are Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education. New Directions for Student Leadership. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.70077
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Findings from the qualitative survey case study, analyzed through a critical feminist lens; the authors call this labor "institutional housekeeping" (citing Bird et al. 2004) that remains largely unquantified in formal leadership evaluations.
"The findings revealed AI implementation has significantly increased the invisible labor of Associate Deans. This affective dimension of institutional labor, the work of soothing faculty fears, managing ethical dilemmas, and fostering community resilience, is often gendered and undervalued in traditional administrative metrics."
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Related Claims¶
- Associate deans report that neither their institution nor their units have implemented official AI policies, prompting localized unit-level guidelines — related
- Academic integrity, professional development, and equity concerns about AI span all surveyed units, though interpreted differently — related
- AI adoption levels and policy implementation vary unevenly across academic units, shaped by discipline and external industry alignment — related
- Training large AI models carries substantial environmental and human labor costs — related
- Adaptive leadership is a critical enabler of successful AI adoption and institutional transformation in higher education — a broader claim this one bears on
- Faculty transformation followed four themes: fear shifting to curiosity, desire for ethical clarity, inclusive design as equity amplifier, and evolution from gatekeepers to guides — related
- GenAI use involves substantial hidden labor of prompting, verification, and correction that remains invisible in productivity evaluation — a broader claim this one bears on
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AI implementation increases the invisible emotional and relational labor of associate deans, which remains unquantified in leadership evaluations |
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AI implementation increases the invisible emotional and relational labor of associate deans, which remains unquantified in leadership evaluations |
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