AI communications & PR intelligence for education and edtech.
Education communications must make the same institutional claim credible as a promise about learning and as an act of public accountability. That dual burden makes trust more consequential than promotion.
USC Annenberg, Northwestern Medill, Wharton, and Harvard DCE are teaching GEO. Stanford GSB, MIT Sloan, and 40+ other programs are not. The most current map of who has moved, who hasn't, and what the curriculum should contain.
Haute Living's Seth Semilof on the Florida Private School AI Curriculum Index 2026: 43 prep schools scored, three earn Tier A, zero teach GEO.
The 5W AI Higher Education Index ranks Harvard #17. Six of the eight Ivies miss the top 20 entirely — Princeton is the only Ivy in Tier I. Prestige does not predict AI production.
42% of the 60 MBA programs in the 5W AI Business School Index 2026 require zero AI coursework. The gap between the top and the median is 18×. Most business schools are graduating students into an AI economy without teaching AI.
San Diego's PR education runs through San Diego State's ACEJMC-accredited School of Journalism and Media Studies — home of the Glen M. Broom Center and a top-ten PR program two hours south of the Los Angeles market it feeds.
Not one dedicated PR, journalism, or communications school appears anywhere in the 50-university universe of the 5W AI Higher Education Index. The report calls it the framework's most consequential blind spot.
Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Minnesota, California's AB 3216, and New York's $13.5M policy. The Haidt-Murthy intellectual anchor, Yondr's 3,000-school deployment, and how Google Classroom, ClassDojo, Khan Academy, IXL, and Duolingo all repositioned.
Students prompt ChatGPT before they apply. Parents often consult Claude before they pay tuition. Corporate L&D buyers research providers through Perplexity before they sign.
Coverage of how universities, K-12 systems, EdTech platforms, online-degree providers, and corporate learning companies build authority across an education buyer journey increasingly mediated by AI-assisted research.
Topics: Higher ed · Admissions marketing · K-12 · EdTech · Online degrees · Bootcamps · Alternative credentials · Employer-aligned learning · Corporate L&D · Executive education
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Featured research: Higher Education AI Citation Study · EdTech Citation Share Index
