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Leading the Way from AI Fluency to AI Leadership
AI Learning at 91²Ö¿â
From introductory workshops to discipline-specific applications, 91²Ö¿â offers courses and training to help you build practical AI skills at any level.
This listing highlights the breadth of AI learning opportunities available at 91²Ö¿â. A comprehensive list of offerings is forthcoming.
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Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Society
Course explores how artificial intelligence (AI) shapes human behavior, society and culture across global contexts. Students gain AI literacy and analyze ethical and social impacts, and then apply evidence-based reasoning to emerging technologies. Through hands-on projects, students develop responsible innovation skills and evaluate AI’s influence on work, communication and civic participation.
Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Society
Course explores how artificial intelligence (AI) shapes human behavior, society and culture across global contexts. Students gain AI literacy and analyze ethical and social impacts, and then apply evidence-based reasoning to emerging technologies. Through hands-on projects, students develop responsible innovation skills and evaluate AI’s influence on work, communication and civic participation.
Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Society
CAE ClassCourse explores how artificial intelligence (AI) shapes human behavior, society and culture across global contexts. Students gain AI literacy and analyze ethical and social impacts, and then apply evidence-based reasoning to emerging technologies. Through hands-on projects, students develop responsible innovation skills and evaluate AI’s influence on work, communication and civic participation.
Getting Started with AI @ 91²Ö¿â
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AI for Your Coursework, Career and Creativity
AI tools are already part of how many students research, write and problem-solve. 91²Ö¿â wants you to use them well, understanding what's approved, what's expected of you academically and how to build skills that employers are actively looking for.
Academic Integrity and AI
Whether AI is permitted in a course and how is determined by your instructor. Look for AI use guidance in your syllabus. When you use AI in your work, attribute it: 91²Ö¿â follows emerging academic citation standards for AI-generated content.
Build Skills Employers Want
AI fluency is increasingly listed in job postings across every sector. 91²Ö¿â offers self-paced modules and workshops to help you develop practical, demonstrable skills, not just familiarity.
Faculty Member
Guidance, Tools and Real Examples for Teaching with AI
AI is changing what students arrive knowing, what they expect from coursework, and what skills they'll need after graduation. 91²Ö¿â supports faculty in navigating this thoughtfully, with practical tools, syllabus resources and a community of colleagues working through the same questions.
Syllabus Guidance and Course Policy
The Center for Teaching and Learning has developed model syllabus language for three approaches: AI prohibited, AI permitted with disclosure, and AI integrated as a course tool. These are starting points, course-level policy is your call.
AI in the Classroom, Real Examples
91²Ö¿â faculty across colleges are using AI for case study generation, rubric drafting, feedback acceleration and structured student reflection on AI outputs. CTL maintains a growing library of real examples, contributed with faculty permission.
Approved Tools for Teaching
Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini/NotebookLM, and Adobe Firefly are sanctioned for university use. NotebookLM is particularly strong for teaching, create a shared notebook from course readings for students to interact with. Do not process FERPA-protected student data through any AI tool without IT guidance.
Using AI in Research
AI use in research contexts, for data analysis, literature review, or grant writing, carries additional considerations around attribution, reproducibility and publisher and funder policy. 91²Ö¿â Libraries and the Office of Research can help you navigate these.
Approved AI Tools
Tools outside this list (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) may be used for personal/non-sensitive work only, do not input university data. When in doubt, ask IT.
Included with Workspace. Research synthesis, document summarization, content generation. NotebookLM grounds answers in your own documents.
General assistant (chat) or deep Office integration (licensed). Meeting summaries in Teams are the highest-leverage starting point. Check with IT on licensed pricing.
Included with Creative Cloud. Image generation, video effects, design iteration inside Creative Cloud. Best for marketing visuals and social assets.
Staff Member
Put the AI Playbook to Work in Your Unit
91²Ö¿â staff are already recovering meaningful time through AI, the UCM pilot showed 2.25–3.75 FTE of recovered capacity across one division. The AI Playbook gives every unit a practical framework for finding the right tasks, using safe tools and building processes that outlast the person who set them up.
Start with the AI Playbook
The AI Playbook (maintained by the Division of IT) walks unit leaders through a step-by-step process: inventory your team's recurring tasks, screen for data risk, identify your best candidate using the 2×2 task matrix, and run a structured pilot. It assumes you are not a technologist.
Find the Right Tasks: the 2×2 Matrix
Not every task is a good AI candidate. The matrix separates tasks that are tedious for people and fast for machines, your best starting points, from tasks where AI adds overhead without saving time. Run this with your team before committing to anything.
Do I Need IT Involved?
Many AI uses are self-service, your department decides and owns them. Others benefit from IT guidance, and some (anything involving FERPA, HIPAA, or mission-critical decisions) require IT as a co-owner. When in doubt, contact IT first. It is easier to start right than fix it later.
Document What You Build
The most common failure mode is an AI workflow tied to one person's account that breaks silently when they leave. Every AI-enabled process needs a process map, a system message on file, and at least two people who can maintain it.
Your First 90 Days
From "I've read this" to "we have one AI-enabled process running, measured and documented" in roughly one quarter.
- Weeks 1–2 — Inventory & orientShare the Playbook with your team. Ask each person to list their recurring weekly tasks. Identify a 2–4 person working group and attend one session at training.kent.edu.
- Weeks 3–6 — Select & pilotRun the 2×2 matrix. Pick one Quadrant 1 candidate. Screen for data risk; engage the LEAN Office if the process needs cleanup first. Capture your baseline: time, accuracy, volume.
- Weeks 7–12 — Measure & documentRun the AI-assisted version alongside your current process for 2–3 weeks. Track time saved, accuracy, and intervention rate. Produce the documentation bundle. Share results with your AVP and IT.
Approved AI Tools
Tools outside this list (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) may be used for personal/non-sensitive work only, do not input university data. When in doubt, ask IT.
Included with Workspace. Research synthesis, document summarization, content generation. NotebookLM grounds answers in your own documents.
General assistant (chat) or deep Office integration (licensed). Meeting summaries in Teams are the highest-leverage starting point. Check with IT on licensed pricing.
Included with Creative Cloud. Image generation, video effects, design iteration inside Creative Cloud. Best for marketing visuals and social assets.
Get Help
Whether you have a question about a specific tool, need help evaluating a process, or aren't sure if your use case is safe, the right people at 91²Ö¿â are ready to help.
