AI Steering Committee

AI Task Forces

• Teaching and Learning Task Force

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to change the workplace, eliminating some traditional roles, creating new roles, and transforming how our students will work. AI is emerging as a powerful tool in the areas of teaching and instructional design.

  Current compelling uses include:

  • improving individualized student instruction and feedback,
  • broadening access and inclusivity when paired with universal design principles,
  • clearer course organization,
  • strengthened assignment and learning outcomes alignment,
  • increased classroom and subject matter engagement,
  • and preparing students to complete tasks and solve problems in an AI-infused workforce.

   

  The Teaching and Learning task force of the AI steering committee will be responsible for the following:

  1. Conducting surveys and focus groups within the university community and with employers to identify AI-related knowledge and skills that will be core to the future of work.
  2. Use information from the surveys and focus groups to generate a list of proposed AI learning outcomes for all students.
  3. Identifying existing courses or programs that incorporate those learning outcomes or propose new courses, attributes, or content that could be added to key courses.
  4. Engaging teaching and instructional design expertise from across the university to review promising practices (internal and external) and learnings to help develop guidance for effective adoption and implementation to enhance the DU student and faculty teaching and learning experience.
• Research Task Force

  The AI Research task force will be responsible for the following:

  1. Identifying how best to infuse AI for competitive advantage in our research impact by supporting our faculty and students whose research work relates to AI and whose research work can be benefited by AI tools.
  2. Articulating a process for developing guidelines and standards for AI use in research and to protect our data from AI threats.
  3. Recommending structures and guidelines for ongoing support of AI tools for research.
• Business Operations Task Force

  Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in various functions within higher education business operations, including but not limited to budgeting and forecasting, facilities management, student advising and success, data analysis and decision making, AR/AP management, and risk planning. To ensure the effective implementation of AI in business operations, the business operation task force will be responsible for the following:

  1. Conducting surveys and focus groups with the university community to identify AI use cases.
  2. Recommending the acquisition of AI tools or the addition of features to existing software that will meet the needs gleaned from the survey responses and focus groups.
  3. Providing recommendations to the AI steering committee on policies and guidelines for the acquisition and ethical use of AI tools.
  4. Developing metrics that will help calculate ROI on implementing AI for business operations.
  5. Collaborating with other AI task forces for research, teaching, and learning when use cases extend into one or more of those areas.
  6. Recommending structures and guidelines for ongoing support of AI tools for business operations.