Dr. Mark David Milliron is President and CEO of National University, a private nonprofit founded in 1971 by a former Navy captain and built around military students, working adults, and learners returning to school later in life. He became NU's sixth president in October 2022, arriving after a career that ran through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was Deputy Director for Postsecondary Success, Western Governors University, where he led the largest college of education in the country, and Civitas Learning, the student success analytics company he co-founded. He also serves as Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin College of Education and chairs the Trellis Foundation board.

He is blunt about what AI means for institutions like his: universities that fail to prepare students to use it productively, he argues, come close to committing educational malpractice. His framework asks students to learn about AI, learn with AI, and learn beyond AI, that last piece being the judgment, creativity, and ethical reasoning no machine supplies. It sits inside the approach he calls Whole Human Education, which pairs credential-rich pathways with the holistic support nontraditional students actually need to finish.