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President’s Inclusive Leadership Institute 2025-2026: Nominations Open Now!

President’s Inclusive Leadership Institute 2025-2026
“Artificial Intelligence: Embedded Biases & Inequities and Its
Impact on Leading in Higher Education”

“Artificial Intelligence has the potential to exacerbate societal bias and set back decades of advances in equal rights and civil liberty. Data used to train machine learning algorithms may capture social injustices, inequality or discriminatory attitudes that may be learned and perpetuated in society.”

The above excerpt is from the introduction to a research paper entitled “Data, Power and Bias in Artificial Intelligence”  by S. Leavy, B. O’Sullivan, and E. Siapera.  AI is here and society has yet to witness the magnitude of its reach. Universities are adopting  AI to more efficiently conduct academic and administrative functions, but what about academic integrity? fairness? equity? inherent AI biases that may skew data,  student progress, employee performance and more?

Societal concerns center around how AI hinders  and/or exacerbates access to programs for vulnerable populations and counteracts the goal of efficiency – adding another layer of inaccessibility to equitable healthcare, education, employment, and housing.

The President’s Inclusive Leadership Institute for 2025-2026 will focus on “Artificial Intelligence: Embedded Biases & Inequities and Its Impact on Leaders in Higher Education” and explore challenges  and possible solutions in education, healthcare, social programs, career attainment and more.

Foundational Books:

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by  Virginia Eubanks

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines, by Joy Buolamwini

Nominations for the institute will begin July 21, 2025.

Submit nominations at https://forms.office.com/r/cHysm6BWya.

For more information, please contact lchapman@towson.edu.

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This post was written by Rinnier, Amy M.