Associate Professor · Northern Arizona University
Blue Brazelton
I work where higher education meets the systems that are quietly remaking it: technology/AI, organizational theory, and the day-to-day of how institutions evolve and offer learning environments and try to change.
Almost every day, someone does something that we used to call "impossible" and we're not willing to call it magic?
Currently
In progress
AI Governance Study — analysis & writing phase
A multi-institution dataset on how universities are formalizing (or not) the policies, committees, and review processes that surround generative AI adoption. Currently moving from collection into analysis.
Read the project notes- Oct 2026 AAC&U Innovation Session — proposal under review. Washington, DC.
- 2026 — Book in progress on AI integration in academic knowledge work.
- Ongoing Aegis / MAPS — the working system behind much of the recent research.