This guest post by BC Law Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Daniel Lyons first appeared in the AEIdeas Blog.

Generative AI is bringing Schumpeterian disruption to the stodgy world of higher education. As in other areas of the economy, the AI revolution is changing the university landscape. It is exposing long-standing flaws in the institution, perhaps most fundamentally its overreliance on exams, term papers, and grades as proxies for learning. This moment of creative destruction poses both challenges and opportunities for administrators like me and the students we serve.