When AI teaches everything, residential college is higher ed's future, argues Berkeley principal
begusgasper · x · 2026-09-23
Gasper Begus, principal of UC Berkeley's Bowles Hall, argues in a Substack essay that when knowledge, teaching, and advising are available from machines, college's core value lies in residential education—students learning boldness, originality, and uniquely human skills while living, eating, and socializing together. Drawing on the Platonic tradition and his 8+ years leading residential colleges, he contends academia survives by out-imagining technology's limits: learning is about human connection, not just knowledge transfer.
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