Fox News Features Cornerstone University's Vision for Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Cornerstone University is grateful for the opportunity to share its approach to artificial intelligence in higher education through a recent feature in Fox News. The story highlighted the university’s strategy for integrating artificial intelligence across teaching, learning and career preparation.
According to President Gerson Moreno-Riaño, while some universities have completely restricted AI and others leave decisions to individual faculty members, Cornerstone has taken a focused, university-wide approach to lead when other universities remain unfocused in their strategy. A key step was to establish the President’s Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board to help guide its long-term AI strategy.
“We want to lead. We want to be ahead of other institutions, but we need the insight of experts in the marketplace right now that can give us guidance, direction and insight to do this and to do it well,” President Moreno-Riaño told Fox News.
Beyond the AI advisory board, Cornerstone is preparing faculty to thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence into teaching and learning while expanding opportunities for students and professionals through the university’s new Applied Artificial Intelligence Certificate.
President Moreno-Riaño said the goal is not simply to teach students how to use AI, but to equip faculty to help students develop the wisdom and judgment that technology cannot provide.
“We want to ensure that we prepare and develop our faculty well, our staff well too … to engage this in a way that continues to form our students, not just inform them. And prepare them with wisdom, not just information. … The dilemma with AI is it gives you the right answer but robs you from the struggle.”
The president believes that wisdom is forged through the struggle of learning — asking questions, solving problems, making mistakes and developing sound judgment — not by simply receiving instant answers. Additionally, rather than preparing students for a single “AI-proof” career, the university is focused on developing graduates whose character, creativity and wisdom make them indispensable in any profession.
“I don’t think there’s a safe career or a safe diploma, a safe major. I think every field will be significantly transformed by this. The question we should be asking is that we should think about producing graduates that can’t be replaced.”
At the heart of Cornerstone’s approach is its conviction that technology should never diminish the value of the people who use it.
“I think Christianity has so much to offer here to say, ‘We understand what the person is. We’re image bearers of God. This means something,’” President Moreno-Riaño told Fox News.
He added that America’s founders understood this principle, which he said remains “at the core of Christianity and of Christian higher ed.”
As artificial intelligence continues to transform higher education and the workplace, Cornerstone remains committed to preparing graduates who combine professional excellence with the wisdom, discernment and Christ-centered perspective needed to lead faithfully in a rapidly changing AI influenced world.
For more information on the new Presidents Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board or Cornerstone’s new Applied Artificial Intelligence Certificate, contact admissions@cornerstone.edu.
