Chad Boersema HIGHER-ED PRACTITIONER · AI STRATEGY
Writing

Writing

I write for the people who have to make AI actually work inside an institution — not the keynote crowd. Practical, honest, occasionally inconvenient.

Essays

Longer pieces, hosted here

Occasional, longer-form musings — the thinking that sits underneath my work.

Essay

A Relationship, Incorporated

The first universities owned no buildings — they were a relationship between someone who knew something and someone who wanted to learn it. A Chief Data Officer on why all the scaffolding of modern higher ed exists to serve that relationship, and the discipline of continually recalibrating to the student learning at its center.

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Featured

Where I write regularly

The places I publish on a recurring basis.

The newsletter · LinkedIn

Before the Committee Meets

My LinkedIn newsletter on AI, data, and leadership in higher education — the thinking that happens before the formal decisions get made.

Read on LinkedIn Forthcoming · eleved.ai

The Higher Ed AI Field Guide

A practical series on getting institutions ready for AI, domain by domain. Published through eleved.ai.

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Elsewhere

Where else to find my thinking

Beyond the essays above, these link out to where they live so they stay current.

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