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Sophia Rahming, Ph.D.

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Sophia Rahming, Ph.D., is an educational futurist, speaker, and consultant who helps colleges and universities design, scale, and evaluate STEM education initiatives while reimagining teaching, learning, and work in the age of artificial intelligence. She is the editor of Black Sisterhoods: Paradigms and Praxis and the author of The Girl Who Loved Math: The Story of Euphemia Lofton Haynes and The Unfinished Days: A 90-Day Practice for Burnout, Healing, and Beginning Again Rooted in Wabi-Sabi. She writes as a private citizen, and the views expressed are her own.

Opinion
An Offer Universities Can't Refuse: The Hidden Cost of Technological Dependence
On Tuesday, Google announced new controls for K–12 student accounts. Google Search and several AI products will be off by default until administrators enable them.
November 4, 2026
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Opinion
Who, Me? Couldn’t Be. Then Who? AI and the Architecture of Plausible Deniability
Artificial intelligence creates a system of distributed design that allows institutions to pass blame along a complex workflow, effectively diluting accountability even when humans remain in the loop.
October 22, 2026
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Views
The Warning Is Coming from Inside AI: What Higher Education Must Decide Before Certainty Arrives
AI is already inside institutional meetings, records, and decisions, often before anyone decided it should be.
September 17, 2026
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A Kill Switch Is Not Governance: Higher Education Is Accelerating as Lawmakers Reach for the Brakes
As colleges wrestle with how to use AI responsibly, the frontier debate is shifting to a sharper question: who gets to decide how far AI should be allowed to go?
September 14, 2026
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What AI Policies Reveal About How Institutions Allocate Human Capacity
The real question raised by emerging AI policies is not whether institutions are embracing or resisting technology, but what kinds of human learning and labor they are choosing to protect.
August 21, 2026
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AI
AI May Not Replace Students of Color in STEM. But It Could Narrow Their Pathways In
The debate over AI in higher education has focused on efficiency and productivity, but a quieter consequence may be the erosion of the research pathways that have long opened doors for first-generation and underrepresented students.
July 16, 2026
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