Career Services Is Where Higher Education Proves Its Value
Career Services in Higher Education Connects Talent with Opportunity The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2026 Conference’s opening keynote in Denver put a phrase in my head that I keep returning to. The goal of career services is to “Connect Talent with Opportunity,” and in that framing sits the full weight of what […]
Workday DevCon 2026: Agentic Ambition Meets Adoption Reality
The Workday Developer Conference 2026 in Las Vegas was the company’s most ambitious developer conference to date — 1,200 attendees in person, 8,000 online, with participants from 26 countries. As I entered the conference, the words “agents are the agenda” were animating on a wall-to-wall screen. Every session of the conference stayed true to those […]
We Keep Rebuilding the Engine While the Driver’s Seat Is on Fire
Higher education has spent the last decade focusing heavily on technology modernization. But modernization and experience are not the same thing. Walk into any strategic planning session at a university, and you’ll hear the same conversation: ERP modernization, cloud migration, system consolidation, and digital transformation roadmaps. You’ll hear about tens of millions of dollars, multi-year […]
Alteryx Redefines Itself. Can Its Customers Keep Up?
Eighteen months into private ownership by Insight Partners and Clearlake, Alteryx came to Orlando last week with a story that is sharply different from the one the company has historically told. Instead of the identity centered in being the analytics workflow tool for analysts, Alteryx is pitching (and building for) being the business logic layer […]
OneStream Delivers on a Modern Agentic Architecture
The first wave of enterprise AI was generative models bolted onto applications. The second was narrow point-solution agents, capable but stranded from the rest of the stack. What’s arriving now is something else: context-aware, interoperable agentic systems grounded in the data, rules, and security models the underlying applications already hold. The products OneStream rolled out […]
From Digital Natives to Digital Learners: Using NotebookLM to Support Universal Design for Learning
Educators have been told that today’s students are “digital natives.” The assumption is that because students grew up with smartphones, social media, and constant connectivity, they intuitively know how to use technology effectively. In practice, many educators know this assumption is flawed. Students may be highly proficient at consuming digital media, but many struggle with […]
The AI Adoption Gap Is Becoming an Organizational Design Problem
AI adoption is getting weird inside companies. Not slow. Not fast. Uneven. In one corner of the organization, people are using AI every day: drafting briefs, summarizing calls, cleaning spreadsheets, writing code, and testing ideas. In another corner, people are still waiting for approval to use a basic assistant. That difference matters. Not because every […]
WACUBO 2026: Transformational Leadership in Higher Education
Last week was my first WACUBO Annual Conference, but I felt right at home. The annual gathering of business officers from colleges and universities across the western US exemplified one of the things I’ve come to appreciate about higher ed conferences: how much of the value sits outside the program. Our community shows up willing […]
Ellucian Live 2026 in Denver: A Conference About Consolidation, Pressure, and Position
Ellucian Live 2026 in Denver signaled a company working to reinforce its position in a market that remains unsettled. What Did Ellucian Announce at Ellucian Live 2026? The messaging focused on modernization, AI, and platform simplification. Those themes are familiar, but the context has shifted. Institutions are making decisions under tighter budgets, constrained staffing, and […]
Workday Innovation Summit 2026 and Workday 4.0
Workday’s Innovation Summit this spring brought industry analysts and customer advisors together for two days focused on a single topic: what enterprise-grade agentic AI actually looks like, and what it will take to deliver it responsibly. One analyst called it “the most innovative Workday Innovation Summit yet.” The pace of product news, the directness of […]
