{"id":236840,"date":"2026-04-28T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/what-ai-cant-do-for-students-and-what-colleges-must-do\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:10:35","slug":"what-ai-cant-do-for-students-and-what-colleges-must-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/what-ai-cant-do-for-students-and-what-colleges-must-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What AI Can\u2019t Do For Students\u2014And What Colleges Must Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

What AI Can\u2019t Do For Students\u2014And What Colleges Must Do<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-04-28 12:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most students are using artificial intelligence (AI) every day. At the same time, many faculty are working to keep up, and colleges are still sorting through what counts as learning in this new environment. At the foundation of all the talk about AI is a fundamental question: If AI can do so much of the work we assign as faculty, what are we actually asking students to learn?<\/p>\n

This question led me to reach out to Alex Chan, a business analytics professor at Molloy University and an expert in AI use in classrooms and beyond. For Chan, the central role of higher education is \u201cempowerment.\u201d But he is also clear that empowerment is not something that simply happens because students complete coursework. As he explained to me, using a metaphor, if you are training a boxer, \u201cGetting them to run and hit a punching bag on a daily basis is an important component of the empowerment process. After a certain period, we can check how long it would take for them to run – say 5k – and how powerful their punches are – maybe measured in Newtons. That would be equivalent to measuring the effectiveness of the empowerment process through coursework. Of course, that would not be quite enough.\u201d He added, \u201cIf we want to make them a good boxer, building up their confidence in fighting potential real-life opponents is also a critical factor. We should organize matches for them to fight in. How do we do that in the classroom?”<\/p>\n

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Alexander Chan, professor, Molloy University<\/p>\n

Molloy University<\/p>\n

Chan\u2019s question is what many of us in faculty roles are thinking about today. AI can handle a lot of \u201ctraining work,\u201d such as drafting, summarizing, and even generating ideas. If the goal is merely to complete assignments, students will lean into AI. However, if the goal is empowerment, then our expectations have to shift in new directions.<\/p>\n

Chan is already making changes in his courses. He is teaching his students to build with AI. As he relayed to me, \u201cThe empowerment comes from the hands-on…<\/p>\n

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