Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
The answer to AI is not a blue book. It is a standard that follows the learner. And it has to work in a salt marsh.
The campus was never a place. It was a promise.
For centuries, the walls did a job nobody wrote into the catalog. They authenticated. The lecture hall, the proctor, the professor who knew your face and your handwriting. Together they told the world that what happened inside was real. A degree meant someone watched you earn it.
Then we moved online and took the walls down. It was the right decision. It opened higher education to the working adult, the parent, the veteran, the learner who would never live in a dormitory. But we never replaced what the walls were doing. We replaced the room. We never replaced the witness.
Now AI has turned everything outside the walls into rumor. An essay can be generated in seconds. A voice can be cloned from a voicemail. A face can sit for a video interview the real person never gave. A field photograph can be conjured whole, with the light and the water and the species all convincingly wrong. We are entering a world where nothing is believed by default.
Some in the sector have chosen its response. “Blue books.”
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