Colleges are defining governance structures to manage AI’s rapid campus spread. Recent guidance pieces and commentary outline core roles — chief AI officers, data stewards, and cross‑unit governance boards — to centralize risk management, policy and procurement. The rapid creation of campus 'AI czars' reflects urgency but also friction: some universities have already rolled back or rethought standalone chief AI roles as they wrestle with scope, speed, and faculty buy‑in. Observers say the role's success depends on mandate clarity, cross‑campus authority, and technical support for decentralized academic units. Procurement and privacy teams must now work with faculty governance to translate guardrails into syllabi, grading rules, and service‑level agreements for cloud providers and agentic tools. Trustees and audit committees are being asked to add AI risk to enterprise risk registers.