Only eight of 130 sampled universities had a business-school-specific AI policy, limiting discipline-specific alignment¶
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q2 i? Of 130 universities crawled, only eight business schools maintained a school-specific AI policy at crawl time. → Lydia Manikonda and Dominique Outlaw 2026
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Lydia Manikonda and Dominique Outlaw 2026¶
Lydia Manikonda and Dominique Outlaw. (2026). Policy Fragmentation or Institutional Alignment? Institutional Governance of AI in Universities and Business Schools. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03584 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.03584
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Policy-collection census across the 130-institution corpus. The eight schools named are Haas (UC-Berkeley), Columbia, Tuck (Dartmouth), Harvard, MIT Sloan, Kellogg (Northwestern), Ross (Michigan), and Wharton (Pennsylvania). The authors tie the gap to misalignment with discipline-specific learning objectives and accreditation purposes.
"Of the 130 universities, we found only eight business schools that have a school -specific policy at the time of crawling this dataset, and we crawl AI policies for these business schools."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- University-wide AI policies in US R1/R2 institutions are moderately positive in sentiment toward AI adoption — related
- Business-school AI policies differ from their universities' policies in focus, with school-level emphasis on pedagogy and tools versus university-level emphasis on risk management and data security — related
- University AI policies overwhelmingly use weaker, suggestive language rather than strong directive language — related
- Most university AI policies are written as neutral suggested guidelines rather than strongly subjective or objective mandates — related
- AI adoption levels and policy implementation vary unevenly across academic units, shaped by discipline and external industry alignment — related
- Universities remaining at early AI-adoption stages risk reactive policies, fragmented practice, and misalignment between assessment and real-world practice — related
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Only eight of 130 sampled universities had a business-school-specific AI policy, limiting discipline-specific alignment |
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Only eight of 130 sampled universities had a business-school-specific AI policy, limiting discipline-specific alignment |
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