Equity commitments in technology adoption face ongoing constraints from infrastructure, funding, and organizational capacity¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2031: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Equity is a genuine institutional value, but without sustained investment in infrastructure, staffing, and support it remains aspiration rather than practice. → Jacob 2026

Evidence¶

Jacob 2026¶

Jacob, S., Miceli, H., Schneider, H., & Peters Hinton, V. (2026). Institutional conditions for integrating emerging technologies in higher education. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/294

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Focus group finding: virtually every participant stressed equity, but campuses lack hardware, connectivity, and licensing capacity; pilots funded by grants struggled to scale, and faculty abandoned tools that were not centrally provided because only some students could afford subscriptions.

"The tension between intention and reality surfaced repeatedly. “Equity comes into the conversation whenever we’re talking about choosing a technology at an enterprise level,” one IT leader noted."

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