When AI Flags a Student in Trouble, Who Is Responsible for What Comes Next?

Every fall, provosts and boards receive the same grim arithmetic. Roughly one in three undergraduates who start a bachelor’s degree will not finish it within six years, and each one who leaves takes tuition revenue and a graduation-rate percentage point with them. For institutions already squeezed by enrollment declines and shrinking state appropriations, retention is no longer a student affairs talking point. It is a budget line.