{"id":212420,"date":"2026-05-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/half-of-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:25:10","slug":"half-of-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/half-of-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Campus Tech Leaders Question AI\u2019s ROI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/12\/half-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi\">Half of Campus Tech Leaders Question AI\u2019s ROI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/12\/half-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi\">https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/12\/half-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.insidehighered.com\">www.insidehighered.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a polite and respectful summary of key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Investment ROI Concerns:<\/strong> Despite spending heavily on AI tools, only 29% of chief technology officers (CTOs) from various colleges and universities report that these investments met or exceeded their return on investment (ROI) expectations; almost half say the ROI is unclear or below expectations. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Adoption Pressure:<\/strong> 49% of the surveyed CTOs see generative AI as a high or essential priority, influenced by competitive pressure to adopt AI solutions. Higher education institutions are increasingly partnering with AI companies to incorporate AI tools into their environments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Biggest Value Shown:<\/strong> Employee productivity gains are the biggest contribution of AI on campuses according to 55% of CTOs, whereas only a small fraction highlight its impact on teaching and learning, advising, and research.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Resource and Cybersecurity Worries:<\/strong> Many CTOs are concerned about the pace of technology-driven change, with significant fears about staffing resources, cybersecurity threats, and the costs associated with AI adoption.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Need for Strategic Adoption:<\/strong> Experts and survey respondents emphasize the need for colleges to define and understand the specific problems AI can solve for them to make strategic, rather than impulsive, investments in AI technologies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details, you&#8217;re recommended to review the full survey results published by Inside Higher Ed\/Hanover Research.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of Campus Tech Leaders Question AI\u2019s ROI https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/12\/half-campus-tech-leaders-question-ais-roi Publish Date: 2026-05-12 03:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/2026-05\/GettyImages-1502441951.jpg?itok=lumZMKL-","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-212420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212422,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212420\/revisions\/212422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}