Ready for whatever comes next

Produced to introduce the paddle raise at AHN’s 2026 Gala, this video repositions the 141-year-old all-girls school as uniquely suited to preparing students for a AI-amplified world.

For years, AHN has struggled to articulate what it is about a values-based all-girls education that makes the private school worth the investment. Now, the world is writing the school’s proof points.

It’s 2026, and the world is suddenly simultaneously enthralled by and in abject fear of AI, artificial intelligence – what it means for education, at both the secondary and collegiate level, and more terrifyingly, future work. College programs that once promised secure high-paying jobs, like computer science, data science, and a marketing research and analytics, are being threatened with obsolescence. CNBC recently reported that the unemployment rate for computer science majors in 2025 was roughly double that of art history majors!

However, this upset, this literal inversion of what just a few years ago was a solid truth, is viewed by Academy of the Holy Names as a remarkable opportunity, because what will be in demand in our future world (and what is already being sought by colleges and universities) are individuals that are highly capable in what were just recently derisively labeled “soft skills” – empathy, ethics, collaboration, critical thinking, broad based education, leadership, and above all else, flexibility.

Amazingly, our new AI-enhanced world is creating a compelling argument for exactly the kind of education AHN has always offered. And because AHN is a small private institution, it can promise a level of responsiveness to a rapidly changing world public schools, bound by bureaucracy, cannot.