tag: Generative AI
Blog Post
June 11, 2026
AI Literacy: Join the Latest Cohort
Beginning this July, Ithaka S+R will convene a cohort of 15-20 colleges and universities to explore how existing information literacy frameworks can be adapted and revised to reflect the changing realities of an AI-driven information ecosystem. The project will bring together librarians, teaching and learning professionals, and other campus leaders committed to advancing AI literacy as a core learning outcome.
Blog Post
June 10, 2026
Three Perspectives on the AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success
In April, we had the opportunity to attend the 2026 AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success, or CLASS, in Tucson, Arizona. This year’s conference centered around the theme of courageous care, with sessions exploring topics from campus culture and community building to the current state of AI literacy initiatives for students and staff. During the conference, we facilitated a roundtable discussion on integrating undergraduate teaching with generative AI, sharing insights from Ithaka S+R projects exploring AI in…
Blog Post
June 9, 2026
Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Introducing a New LibGuide
Today, we are publishing a LibGuide focused on the Environmental Impacts of AI, as a part of our Incorporating Environmental Perspectives into AI Literacy project, funded by the Mellon Foundation. The LibGuide’s objective is to help users attain a baseline understanding of the varied environmental consequences behind AI technology. The LibGuide’s articles, reports, podcasts, videos, data trackers, and other types of resources address environmental impacts throughout the AI lifecycle.
Blog Post
June 8, 2026
Why I Joined Ithaka S+R
I was in the room at the Frankfurt STM meeting in 2015 when my friend and now colleague Roger Schonfeld delivered a talk that changed how I understood the problem I thought I had been working on for most of my career. Roger mapped the researcher scholarly journal access experience in plain terms. Journals were online. DOIs worked. Link resolvers existed. The digitization problem had been substantially solved. But the access problem had not. Researchers with legitimate institutional access were…
Blog Post
May 22, 2026
The Research Enterprise in Transition
Insights on AI, Policy, and Open Source Software
The research enterprise is undergoing a period of rapid change, shaped by several converging forces. In our work with researchers, administrators, and senior leaders across the country, we see firsthand how advances in artificial intelligence are changing how research is conducted and supported, even as shifts in federal funding policies introduce new uncertainties. At the same time, increased scrutiny of research with national security implications—and a shifting policy environment influencing what research gets funded and pursued—are raising the stakes for…
Blog Post
May 19, 2026
Welcoming Todd Toler to Ithaka S+R
Advancing Responsible AI in Scholarly Communication
We are pleased to welcome Todd Toler to Ithaka S+R as the inaugural practice lead for a new area of focused work on artificial intelligence in scholarly communication. The new practice area is grounded in a simple but powerful idea: that AI in research and publishing must be “scholar-ready," aligned with expectations for integrity, provenance, rights awareness, and transparency.
Blog Post
May 6, 2026
Defining AI Literacy
Announcing the Fourth Cohort for Summer 2026
Across the past year, Ithaka S+R has worked with 58 institutions through our cohort projects to define and implement AI literacy. Following these successful engagements, we are launching an additional AI literacy cohort this summer, which will run on an accelerated timeline. Participants will collectively address two fundamental questions: What exactly is AI literacy? How can libraries, centers for teaching and learning, and other university units better support AI literacy for students and faculty?…
Blog Post
April 17, 2026
Uncovering How Instructors Define and Teach AI Skills
Announcing a New National Survey
Higher education institutions and employers alike tout the priority they place on AI skills, but rarely do they describe what ‘AI skills’ actually mean. While there are many models of AI literacy in both educational and employment settings, there are remarkably few frameworks that identify the specific skills that make that literacy applicable in either setting. To help bridge that gap, Ithaka S+R is undertaking a new, national study to better understand what specific AI skills instructors think are important…
Blog Post
March 30, 2026
AI in Research Administration at Emerging Research Institutions
An Issue Brief from NSF GRANTED Workshops
Research administration has grown increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the introduction of AI has only exacerbated this. Expanding regulatory requirements, shifting funding landscapes, rising numbers of proposals, and constrained staffing resources have made research administration more demanding. For emerging research institutions, these pressures compound existing structural challenges in building research operations capable of securing and sustaining funding. As generative AI tools have rapidly entered the market, accompanied by promises of increased efficiency, research offices at emerging research…
Issue Brief
March 30, 2026
AI Adoption in Research Administration at Emerging Research Institutions
Research administration, an essential component of a university’s research enterprise, is growing more complex, costly, and cumbersome each year. As generative AI transitions into an everyday technology, university research offices are exploring its potential to reduce administrative burden and increase operational efficiency. With funding from the National Science Foundation’s GRANTED program, Ithaka S+R, Chapman University, and Montclair State University organized two workshops to help research administrators consider how to leverage AI to build research capacity at emerging research institutions.
Past Event
April 10, 2026
AI Adoption in Higher Ed
Teaching, Learning, and Research
At a virtual event for Kean University on April 10, 2026, Claire Baytas will share an overview of what Ithaka S+R has been learning across the past three years about generative AI adoption in postsecondary teaching, learning, and research. The presentation will draw from Ithaka S+R’s research studies, such as our Making AI Generative for Higher Education and AI Literacy cohort projects, as well as our regular interactions with stakeholders across higher education and ongoing landscape analysis. The presentation will…
Blog Post
March 3, 2026
Incorporating Environmental Perspectives into AI Literacy
Announcing a New Mellon-Funded Project
The energy and material demands behind artificial intelligence (AI) technology raise serious questions about the environmental impacts of widespread AI adoption. Understanding these environmental-related consequences is an important component of what it means to be AI literate. Within the sphere of higher education, colleges and universities are launching initiatives to help students, faculty, and staff attain higher levels of AI literacy. Many AI literacy frameworks already call for competency in the societal and environmental impacts of AI technologies. However, tracking…
Past Event
March 21, 2026
Blueprint to Breakthrough
Operationalizing AI Across the Research Enterprise
As interest in AI adoption expands in research administration, many institutions struggle to move from experimentation and ideas to operational solutions. Successfully deploying AI in this context requires more than a subscription or a prototype. It depends on understanding how AI functions, how it interacts with institutional data, and how that capability aligns with research administration workflows. This session at the NCURA 4th AI Symposium focuses on the practical realities of deploying AI in research administration, walking through key…
Blog Post
January 15, 2026
Human Values and AI Adoption in the Research Enterprise
Insights from the Second NSF GRANTED Workshop at Chapman University
Research administrators play an essential role in the research enterprise. Their work managing expenditures and monitoring compliance with rules related to the ethical conduct of research ensure that public money is spent and that research data is collected in ways that protect privacy, minimize risks to participants, and meet the complex legal and contractual obligations required by funders. At large research universities, these and other tasks associated with research administration are undertaken by trained specialists: at emerging research institutions (ERIs)…
Past Event
April 15, 2026
Supporting Faculty in Integrating AI Into Their Teaching
At the AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success, Ithaka S+R’s Michael Fried, Nathan Kelber, and Zhuo Chen will facilitate a roundtable discussion on supporting faculty in integrating AI into their teaching. The conference is scheduled to take place on April 15-18, 2026.
Blog Post
December 1, 2025
Updating the Generative AI Product Tracker
An Evolving Product Landscape
In March 2024, Ithaka S+R released a tracker of generative AI products for higher education, along with an issue brief detailing our observations on the generative AI product landscape for postsecondary research, teaching, and learning activities. Since then, the list of products on the tracker has more than doubled in length and become more cumbersome for its many users. Today, we are launching a new version of our tracker that we believe will ensure its future value.
Past Event
November 20, 2025
Emerging Trends in AI and Higher Education
On November 20 at 1:00pm ET, Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger participated in a virtual panel on emerging trends in AI and higher education, hosted by the University of Tennessee Library through their AI Series.
Blog Post
November 5, 2025
AI Literacy in Higher Education
Building from the Bottom Up
When we launched the third cohort for the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula project in September, we wanted to learn about the fast evolving AI literacy landscape in higher education. In our first workshop in October, we began to see a clear pattern: across institutions types and sizes, AI literacy development in higher education is happening almost always from the ground up.
Blog Post
October 23, 2025
The Value of Skepticism in the Age of AI
Although generative AI literacy frameworks can be quite varied, all suggest that users bring a critical eye to what LLMs produce. Instructors must internalize this critical lens on AI outputs in order to convey that same inherent skepticism to their students. With this healthy skepticism in mind, it is key to understand when and how generative AI can enrich teaching and learning.
Blog Post
October 17, 2025
A New Cohort Project Focused on Centers of Teaching and Learning
While the rapid evolution of generative AI is transforming teaching and learning in higher education, many instructors face this shift without clear frameworks or shared strategies, placing pressure on centers for teaching and learning to develop new programming. This challenge is at the heart of a new Ithaka S+R cohort project in collaboration with the California State University (CSU) system, “Teaching and Learning with AI.” The project kicked off in September, connecting CSU centers for teaching and learning interested in…