On February 2, 2026, College Board President Jeremy invited Professor Alexa Alice Joubin to address more than 400 CEOs and higher education leaders on the value of education in the age of AI. Professor Joubin’s plenary took place during the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) 2026 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Professor Joubin argued that intellectual agility is the most important durable skill, namely sustained curiosity and the meta-cognitive ability to keep learning. This agility also encompasses ethical reasoning and empathy—the ability to imagine otherwise. She compared authentic learning experience to going to the gym, and contrasted AI-assisted fluency with using Photoshop to enhance one’s body image.
Few are better placed to speak on this issue than Professor Joubin. As part of her research on trust and literacy, Professor Alexa Alice Joubin has piloted an open-access platform called Teach Anything, www.teachanything.ai which enables faculty to use open-source LLMs to create custom AI applications for experimentation or classroom use. Faculty-created AIs are easily shareable via permanently free links that do not require student account log-ins. Chat history is anonymous not sent off to train LLMs and privacy protected. Faculty have full control over the training data which is transparent. Two dozen GW professors are participating as beta-testers. This project was recently featured by New York Times.