We need to talk about the elephant in the lecture hall: universities are struggling to respond to AI, and many are getting it wrong. Walk into any faculty meeting these days and you will hear the same anxious refrains. “Students are using ChatGPT to write their essays!” “How do we detect AI-generated work?” “We need stricter policies!” It is 2026, and higher education is responding to transformative technology the same way it often has: with panic, prohibition, and a scramble