Academic leaders are confronting a two‑front challenge: AI tools are changing the scope of faculty work while also creating new academic‑integrity problems in face‑to‑face settings. Thought leaders argue the professoriate must be restructured to reflect automation of routine tasks and new expectations for research, teaching, and service. A policy piece tracing structural pressures urges institutions to reassess workloads, promotion criteria, and staffing models as AI takes on grading, tutoring and synthesis tasks. Simultaneously, instructors report students are using advanced tools to game participation and some in‑person assessments — forcing rapid changes to exam design and proctoring. Deans and provosts will need to realign promotion and merit systems to reward AI‑augmented scholarship and rework assessment practices to preserve learning outcomes.