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Higher education's AI divide puts Cornerstone University advisory board in focus

Cornerstone University, the Christian institution based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has assembled a President's Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board drawing experts from philosophy, engineering, enterprise AI, theology, and higher education. The board's mandate spans AI curriculum, ethics, and long-term strategy. What to watch: how its recommendations reshape faculty training and course offerings across the Grand Rapids campus.

By Priya NairNewsroomJuly 27, 20262 min read
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Cornerstone University, the Christian institution based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has assembled a President's Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board drawing experts from philosophy, engineering, enterprise AI, theology, and higher education. The board's mandate spans AI curriculum, ethics, and long-term strategy. What to watch: how its recommendations reshape faculty training and course offerings across the Grand Rapids campus.

The policy gap and Cornerstone's answer

Across American higher education, AI governance has largely defaulted to the classroom level. Harvard University holds no university-wide AI policy, requiring instructors to set and disclose their own rules. Vanderbilt University takes a similar line, leaving faculty to define generative AI policies course by course, provided those policies align with the Honor Code.

President Gerson Moreno-Riaño sees that fragmentation as the condition Cornerstone is organized to avoid. He told Fox News Digital that many college presidents he has spoken with lack a coherent AI strategy, and that the absence of guidance causes students, faculty, and staff to suffer equally.

The "irreplaceable graduate" thesis

Moreno-Riaño's framework does not center on coding skills or career paths that AI cannot automate. His argument is that the qualities making a graduate irreplaceable are human ones: wisdom and judgment built through working problems, making mistakes, and reaching conclusions without shortcuts.

He offered a precise illustration. A high school math teacher who insisted students show every step of their work understood something AI now complicates. The struggle is the education. Moreno-Riaño told Fox News Digital that AI delivers the right answer but removes the friction that builds capability.

That argument also runs through the university's Christian identity. Moreno-Riaño contends that Christianity provides a coherent account of human dignity and personhood that can anchor AI ethics in ways a purely technical framework cannot.

What to watch next

The advisory board carries a secondary charge: advising Cornerstone on how AI can lower the cost of delivering education, per Moreno-Riaño's comments to Fox News Digital. He named no cost targets or implementation timeline.

The definitive signal will be the board's first formal curriculum and faculty-development recommendations, which will show whether Cornerstone's centralized-strategy model produces policy distinctions that hold up against the faculty-discretion approaches at Harvard and Vanderbilt.

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Filed by the newsroom of MarketPR on July 27, 2026. Source: foxnews.com. Indicative figures are not investment advice.

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Frequently asked

What is Cornerstone University's President's Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board?

It is a board of experts from philosophy, engineering, enterprise AI, theology, and higher education tasked with guiding AI curriculum, ethics, and long-term strategy at the Grand Rapids, Michigan institution.

How does Cornerstone's approach differ from Harvard and Vanderbilt?

Harvard and Vanderbilt have no university-wide AI policy and leave rules to individual instructors, while Cornerstone is pursuing a centralized, university-level AI strategy.

What is Moreno-Riaño's argument about AI and education?

He argues that the struggle of working through problems is what builds wisdom and judgment, and that AI removes the productive friction that develops those irreplaceable human capabilities.

How does Cornerstone's Christian identity factor into its AI stance?

Moreno-Riaño contends that Christianity offers a coherent account of human dignity and personhood that can anchor AI ethics in ways a purely technical framework cannot.

Does the advisory board have goals beyond curriculum and ethics?

Yes, it also carries a secondary charge of advising Cornerstone on how AI can lower the cost of delivering education, though no cost targets or timeline were named.