How Anthology Leveraged AI to Personalize Higher Ed at Scale

In this episode of Edtech Conversations with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how Anthology, the higher-education software powerhouse born from the Blackboard-Campus Labs merger, is using artificial intelligence to personalize the college experience for millions of students without breaking faculty trust. They dive into Anthology's AI-powered advising tool that analyzes student engagement data to predict dropout risk and suggest interventions — a system currently used by over 400 institutions. Lucas argues that Anthology's advantage isn't the algorithm itself, but the decades of institutional data it has to train on. Luna pushes back on privacy concerns and the risk of over-reliance on automated nudges. Together, they examine whether AI in higher ed can actually improve graduation rates without turning students into data points. The conversation stays grounded in one concrete example: how the University of Texas at Austin used Anthology's platform to reduce first-year attrition by 12 percent in two academic years. #Anthology #Blackboard #CampusLabs #HigherEducation #AIinEducation #PersonalizedLearning #StudentSuccess #UniversityOfTexas #Edtech #EdtechPodcast #AI #DropoutPrediction #LearningAnalytics #BusinessAndTechnology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #EducationSoftware #DataPrivacy Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo