Lehigh Valley Health Network is a healthcare network based in the Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. The healthcare network serves eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania. Its flagship hospital is Lehigh Valley Hospital, located on Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown.
This article explores institutional policies on artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. As AI tools become increasingly utilized in academia—from research and teaching to assessment and student support—institutions face growing pressure to establish clear, ethical, and practical guidelines to help guide faculty. We examine existing institutional responses to AI adoption, identify common policies, and highlight the growing pressure that exists between innovation, academic integrity, and equitable access. Drawing on three institutional examples and current policy models, an approach to developing faculty‐focused AI policies that promotes transparency, safeguards academic standards, and fosters responsible AI use is proposed. Recommendations are made for policy development that align with institutional missions, faculty autonomy, and the evolving landscape of higher education.
Patient participation affected management decision-making trends over the past two decades. This study aimed to survey trends in vestibular schwannoma (VS) management using a large national database. This analysis collated demographic and clinical data for 23,488 VS cases from 2004 to 2021 using the national surveillance, epidemiology, and end result database. Relationships between tumor size and age were analyzed with Chi-square and logistic regression and trends over time were assessed. Across the study period, a statistically significant portion of older patients was managed with observation compared to younger patients. The relationship of age to initial management persisted across tumor sizes. From 2004 to 2021, observation was increasingly popular. The strongest relationship between time and treatment modality was observed in young patients (<65), for which there was a 16.6% point increase in observation and a 10.9% point decrease in surgery between the extremes of the study period. This trend is contrasted with the trend in radiation therapy over this time in the elderly population, in whom the rate of radiation nearly halved (39.9–22.7%) from 2004 to 2018. This large database study demonstrates the impact that the dawn of the century had on trends in the management of VS. Over the past 20 years, treatment options have not changed greatly, but the way the options are utilized evolved with time.
