University-wide AI policies in US R1/R2 institutions are moderately positive in sentiment toward AI adoption¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Most universities' AI policies express moderately positive sentiment, with only two institutions negative and both near neutral. → Lydia Manikonda and Dominique Outlaw 2026

Evidence¶

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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NLP sentiment analysis of a corpus of 130 university AI policies crawled from R1/R2 institutions across 34 states. The figure caption reports polarity "mean=0.11, min=-0.08, and max=0.25" on a -1 to 1 scale; only two institutions show a negative tone, both near neutral.

"Polarity values in Figure 1(a) highlight that most universities are positive in sentiment; however, they are closer to 0 than 1, suggesting that the majority are moderately positive."

Discussion¶

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