AI Is Disrupting Higher Education: Are Universities Ready? with Boris Walbaum

What if everything we think we know about academic excellence is wrong? In this episode, Scott Miller sits down with Boris Walbaum, Founder and President of Forward College, to explore why traditional universities may be ill-equipped for an uncertain, AI-driven world. Boris makes the case for "deep skills", the cognitive, social, emotional, and practical foundations that no machine can replace, and explains how Forward College is putting that philosophy into practice through flipped classrooms, AI tutoring, and community-centred learning. He also shares his honest concerns about AI risks in education, from the collapse of assessment credibility to students delegating too much of their thinking to algorithms. A thought-provoking conversation for anyone who believes higher education needs more than a technology upgrade: it needs a change of mindset.