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September 2025

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with GenAI

Generative artificial intelligence is having a profound impact on higher education. EDUCAUSE assembled a global panel of experts to envision their preferred future of GenAI in higher education and create an action plan to get to that future. Panelists focused on a 10-year time horizon, imagining how current trends, technologies, and practices might converge to result in a better future. From that vision, they identified actions to be taken by individuals, units and departments, cross-department collaborators, and cross-institution collaborators. Actions include:

How US Ignite Fueled the Foundation for DigitalC’s Cleveland Model and its Expansion to Detroit, Michigan

A US Ignite Community recently reached two momentous milestones. Cleveland (OH) became the first major US city to deploy a full next-gen fixed wireless network through a local nonprofit, DigitalC. In just 18 months, DigitalC created and deployed the Cleveland Model—a customized network explicitly designed for Cleveland. Although tailored for Cleveland’s unique landscape, the engineers designed the model so that it could be a blueprint for other cities working to expand Internet connectivity.

BEAD Cost Caps

Most States have now sent final Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment proposals to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with a list of the proposed internet service providers to win BEAD funding for every eligible location. The next step is for NTIA to review grant applications, which is now underway. NTIA has already been contacting States and establishing a cost cap for each State based on the CostQuest cost models.

The State of Home Connectivity 2025

This report is based on the TechSee Home Connectivity Survey, conducted in August 2025 with a nationwide sample of U.S. consumers. The survey was designed to capture real-world experiences and expectations around home Wi-Fi performance, troubleshooting, and provider interactions. Key takeaways include:

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