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The AI Syllabus Statement Is Not a Data Governance Policy

Instructor-level AI policies solve academic integrity optics but leave the actual FERPA exposure, student data flowing into third-party tools, largely unaddressed.

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The AI Compliance Gap Is Moving From the Classroom to the Data Pipeline

As colleges route student data through AI tools for advising and administration, FERPA and state privacy laws expose a vendor accountability gap that conduct policies don't touch.

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Florida's AI Mandate Exposes the Governance Gap Colleges Have Been Papering Over

Florida now requires every state college and school district to adopt AI policy by 2027, revealing how uneven and incomplete campus-level AI governance still is.