Two new briefs addressed higher education’s rapid adoption of AI from complementary angles: implementation strategy and legal exposure. A practical guide urged campus leaders to pilot human‑centered AI across the learner journey, using small pilots to personalize recruitment, onboarding, adaptive learning and retention supports while protecting trust and human connection. It emphasized pilots that preserve faculty control and student privacy. A separate legal primer identified three pressing legal issues administrators must tackle now: data privacy and third‑party vendor risk, anti‑discrimination and equity implications when algorithms influence decisions, and the need for clear institutional policies to manage liability. Both pieces call for cross‑institutional governance, vendor oversight, and faculty‑led curricular decisions as institutions scale AI applications.