Anonymous responses from — higher education identity and security leaders. Updates as new responses arrive.
The visibility-and-governance gap is not a future concern. The data below describes the present state of AI agent identity in higher education.
Institution type, size, identity platform, and IAM staff capacity.
What's running on campus today, who has visibility, how agents authenticate, and whether anyone has been bitten yet.
Formal policy, IDP-level agent identity, separate audit logging, and agent registration processes.
Where CIOs are losing sleep, how they hear about vendor AI features, and what's standing in the way of formal governance.
Personal-device AI usage that touches institutional data, and the policy posture around it.
What higher education identity leaders said when asked: what is the most important thing peers need to understand about managing AI agent identities that is not being discussed enough?
15 minutes. 18 questions. Anonymous by default. Findings feed the 2026 Field Guide.
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