Joe Sabado

Founder of CampusAIExchange.com, writing on responsible AI adoption, governance, and workforce transformation in higher education.

The Nine Domains framework grew out of AI governance work begun in 2023 — as a practitioner inside an institution, as a consultant engaging other campuses and systems, and as a scholar researching the evolving governance landscape.

That work has spanned a university system, a national higher-education technology community, and direct engagement with community colleges, research universities, private universities, a health-sciences institution, an accreditation agency, and industry associations.

In every one of those contexts, the same pattern appeared: institutions working hard on AI governance, but working on pieces of it. The architecture is an original contribution — tested against scholarly research, regulatory analysis, and institutional practice — not a synthesis of existing frameworks.