Your AI strategy is a content governance problem: Why higher education cannot automate its way out of web portfolio sprawl

AI is already in use across your campus. The question is whether it can safely work on the content you have. This session argues that institutional AI readiness is a content governance problem, and lays out the four-part foundation that must exist before automation creates value rather than risk. Key takeaways:

• Assess whether your institution's current web portfolio and content model can support governed AI, using a four-part readiness framework.
• Connect web consolidation to obligations you are already funding, including ADA Title II WCAG 2.1 AA deadlines and enrollment marketing performance.
• Build an internal case for governance-before-automation that a CIO, a chief communications officer and a provost can each recognize as their own priority.