AI-Ready Institution Webinar Series
Ithaca College Presents Before the Conversation Starts: Laying the Foundation for AI-Enabled Institutional Transformation
A 45-minute consortium briefing on how trusted data and AI-enabled transformation can connect the student journey, eliminate repeated explanations, and enable more meaningful human support.
November 19th, 2026
1 PM EST
Why You Should Attend
A student tells student financial services about a change in her situation, then explains it again to an advisor, and again to a counselor. Each person is willing to help, but none has the whole story. In this 45-minute executive briefing, the Campus Consortium Foundation convenes for a practical, vendor-neutral look at the foundation AI-enabled institutional transformation depends on: trusted data, thoughtful architecture, and clear rules about who sees what. Built well, it gives AI a longitudinal view of the student journey, so the people in offices like student financial services and counseling already know the story and can spend the conversation on what only a human can do.
What you’ll take away:
- Why AI asks for institutional transformation, not just tool adoption
- What the foundation takes: trusted data, the architecture behind it, and who gets access to what
- How a longitudinal view of the student journey lets students tell their story once
- How AI gives advisors, counselors, and mentors more to work with, without replacing the human conversation
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