AI on Campus

AI is already happening across CU Boulder - in labs, classrooms, and everyday campus operations - supported by a growing set of initiatives, events, and communities of practice. Together, these campus efforts help people learn from one another, develop shared practices, and expand responsible use in ways that fit CU Boulder’s needs and values. Whether you’re just getting started or already deep in the work, there’s a place for you to participate and contribute.

AI Strategic Steering Committee

This a campus-wide AI strategic steering committee has representation from research, teaching and learning, administrative and operational disciplines. Members assist with the creation of resources and guidance to campus users. Learn more about our members and activities so far. 

Colorado AI Lab

The Colorado AI Lab is a hub for AI research and teaching at CU Boulder. Meet the faculty advancing the state of the art of the field, explore academic programs and courses, and learn how multidisciplinary AI research is shaping campus and beyond.

Visit the Colorado AI Lab

AI Literacy Foundations Course

The AI Literacy Foundations course, developed through a cross-campus collaboration between OIT, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and other campus stakeholders, is available now to all CU Boulder faculty and staff.

The AI Literacy Foundations course is a self-paced course designed specifically for CU Boulder faculty and staff with little prior experience with artificial intelligence. The goal is to raise the baseline of AI literacy across campus, empowering educators and administrators to safely, and more confidently, engage with AI tools and concepts in their work.

This one-hour course is accessible to all CU faculty and staff through CU Boulder’s instance of Canvas. You will be asked to authenticate into the Canvas LMS using your IdentiKey credentials. Once enrolled, learners can locate the course by clicking “Courses” in the left navigation panel of Canvas, then clicking into the “AI Literacy Foundations” course. For questions or issues, please contact the IT Service Center.

Campus Events and Initiatives 

There are countless in-person and virtual events promoting the responsible adoption of AI on campus. Here is a short list of opportunities to get involved so check back here often for events such as AI showcases, workshops and recordings of those events. If you have an upcoming campus AI event, complete our AI contact form to have your event added below! 

There is a great need to think about how generative artificial intelligence (AI) integrates with and impacts teaching and learning in higher education.

The CTL's AI Literacy Ambassador program brings together educators from colleges across campus that represent diverse disciplines and who are moderately experienced to advanced thinkers around teaching, learning and AI. Cohort mentors and participants will:

  • Explore how departments, instructors, and students interact with, respond to, and accept, ignore, or reject uses of generative AI.
  • Create information sharing support structures (e.g. live cohort sessions, listservs, repositories) for participants to gain key skills and support each other's gen AI investigations and innovations.
  • Support one another in developing a discipline specific innovation associated with gen AI, which can focus on pedagogy and/or instigating related unit level dialogue about gen AI.
     

Interested in joining this year's cohort? Contact Blair Young, the CTL's innovation catalyst, at byoung@colorado.edu.

Join Blair Young for an engaging session in the Teaching & Learning with AI Community of Practice (CoP). These events are designed for educators interested in exploring the evolving role of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Together, we’ll delve into practical applications, ethical considerations, and strategies for integrating AI tools effectively in the classroom.

Click on the links below to learn more:

In just three years, generative AI has shifted from a futuristic technology to becoming a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. And, as tech giants race to define the next frontier, we face a critical question: Are we merely passengers on this journey, or the architects of our narratives? How might we move beyond short-sighted reaction and start critically [re]shaping the narrative of our and/or our learners’ futures?

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to the 3rd annual AI Summer Design Studio on May 7 & 8, 2026. At this year's event, we’ll explore the theme: [Re]Shaping Your AI Narrative. We’ll dive into substantive discussions about the future and consider practical strategies to shape your personal and professional narratives around AI, no matter your feelings on this technology.

The [re}shaping begins now. We want your input on the design and content of the AI Summer Design Studio. What excites you about generative AI? What worries you? What is your vision for the future of higher education?

Register and help us shape the event by filling out this linked questionnaire by February 27, 2026.  

The Division of Continuing Education’s Learning Design Group hosts a virtual Course Design Series on timely topics related to teaching and learning.

Spring 2026 Session Topics:

For full details, past session recordings, and resources, visit the Course Design Series page.

Explore the intersection of compliance and artificial intelligence in this session. This talk featuring Conor Waladay, OIT's AI Program Manager, will highlight emerging risks, responsibilities, and opportunities in the context of AI in higher education.

How CU Boulder innovators are using AI to win major grants

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) invites faculty, staff and students to a special virtual event showcasing how CU Boulder researchers are successfully using artificial intelligence to enhance proposal development and secure major grants.

This session will highlight practical, real-world strategies for integrating AI into idea generation, narrative framing and proposal refinement—offering attendees actionable insights they can use immediately. 

This working group is open to faculty from across disciplines to address salient gen AI topics that impact faculty, students, and teaching and learning. In Fall 2024, the working group developed new AI Use Syllabus Guidance which was released in January 2025. In Spring 2025, the working group will address honor code considerations including best practices for grading and gen AI (plagiarism detectors, student privacy, intellectual property) and communicating with students about classroom gen AI policies and practices as they relate to the honor code. The group meets online every other Friday from 12-1pm. Please email Shelly Miller, at shelly.miller@colorado.edu, to participate.

The CU Generative Futures Lab on campus is an informal and experimental space for faculty, staff and students to interact with generative text, voice, image, and knowledge-management and research tools. Hosted by CU faculty, the lab is open to the campus to learn more about the possibilities and considerations surrounding AI use.

If you have questions about the lab, email Diane at Diane.Sieber@colorado.edu.

When: 12-3 p.m., Monday - Friday
Where: Discovery Learning Center, Room 1B10

Please join the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Community of Practice for the AI @ CU Boulder Spring Showcase. The showcase will discuss the state of AI on campus today and highlight three unique ways that AI is being utilized within teaching, research and administration on campus.

Recording link; passcode: Ca9ZG$B+
(you must first log in to Zoom with your username@colorado.edu address and IdentiKey password)

This showcase highlighted three ways that AI is being utilized in teaching, research and administration on the CU Boulder campus. Here are the presenters and the topics they discussed:

Michael Klymkowsky, MCDB faculty 
AI in the classroom: Socratic tutor

Esther Rolf, Computer Science faculty 
AI in research: Using AI to analyze large data sets

Tim Crean, OIT staff  
AI in operations: Microsoft 365 Copilot & GenAI capabilities

Recording link; passcode: +.sVJwW4 
(you must first log in to Zoom with your username@colorado.edu address and IdentiKey password)

This session covered Microsoft Copilot foundations, prompt-crafting tips and tricks, and what Copilot offers compared to other Gen AI tools.

Recording link 
(you must log in with your CU Boulder username and IdentiKey password)

Join the AI Community of Practice

All CU Boulder faculty and staff can join the AI Community of Practice. This community uses Microsoft Teams as the hub for community and collaboration. To join, click the + AICoP Microsoft Team button below. A moderator will have to approve your request to ensure that you are a current CU Boulder faculty or staff member.

  Join AICoP Microsoft Team 

AI Use Case Repository

We are evaluating campus requests for AI functionality in order to best inform our future roadmap and possible tool pilots. Understanding how CU Boulder faculty, staff and researchers wish to incorporate AI tools and functions into their work can help determine campus focus and priorities. Share your request via the AI Use Case Repository request form.

  Fill Out AI Use Case Request 

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