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5 Challenges Higher Ed Leaders Are Struggling With in 2025 and How AI Is Changing the Game

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By Team CreatrixSep 12, 2025

5 Challenges Higher Ed Leaders Are Struggling With in 2025 and How AI Is Changing the Game

Leading in 2025 Starts with Seeing Clearly Presidents, Provosts, and CIOs aren’t just navigating institutions anymore—they’re steering through complexity. In 2025, leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about having the right systems to ask smarter questions, faster. From fragmented student records to reactive reporting cycles and compliance pressures, higher education leadership challenges today are deeply systemic. And they’re holding back transformation.