Faculty—not central administrators—are leading campus conversations about appropriate classroom uses of generative AI, according to recent surveys, while academic leaders prepare for the next wave of agentic AI tools that act autonomously on users’ behalf. Professors across disciplines are drafting use policies, clarifying permissible assessment practices and asking students to disclose prompts; institutions are now shifting toward guidance that privileges faculty-driven norms over one-size-fits-all bans. The move reflects faculty ownership of academic integrity and pedagogy. At the same time, higher-education thinkers are urging leaders to ready campuses for “agentic” AI—autonomous systems that can manage tasks end-to-end—by rethinking governance, technical infrastructure, and workforce skilling. One-sentence clarification: agentic AI refers to AI agents that operate with some autonomy, scheduling, executing and iterating tasks without continuous human prompting. Trustees and provosts must update academic policy, invest in faculty development and build technical safeguards to manage transparency, bias and attribution.