UVM AI Team

The UVM AI Taskforce is organized into working committees, each focused on a key aspect of the university's AI strategy. Together, these committees help advance responsible AI adoption, support innovation, strengthen governance and infrastructure, and prepare our students, faculty, and staff for an AI-enabled future.

Below you will find information about each of our committees and priority topics for the upcoming academic year:

AI Taskforce Updates — Fall 2026

Strategy Committee

The Strategy Committee helps set the university's direction for AI adoption and innovation. The committee identifies high-impact opportunities that support student success, teaching, research, and university operations while ensuring AI initiatives align with UVM's mission and values. It also helps guide the expansion of AI solutions, evaluates opportunities to scale successful innovations, and supports university-wide communication and engagement around AI priorities. 

Governance Committee

The Governance Committee develops the policies, frameworks, and oversight mechanisms that guide responsible AI use at UVM. Its work focuses on establishing clear expectations for AI and agentic AI, managing risk, defining accountability, and creating governance structures that promote transparency, compliance, and human oversight. The committee also evaluates the effectiveness of AI governance through metrics, monitoring, and continuous assessment. 

Technology Committee

The Technology Committee leads the development of the institutional foundations needed to support AI at scale. This includes AI infrastructure, data governance, security, identity management, approved toolsets, and technical architecture. The committee also helps evaluate emerging AI technologies, supports teaching and research needs, and works to ensure AI solutions are secure, sustainable, and integrated into institutional operations. 

Research & Innovation Committee

The Research & Innovation Committee brings a research and assessment perspective to AI planning and implementation. The committee ensures researcher voices are represented, examines the broader impacts of AI adoption, and helps assess awareness, utilization, effectiveness, and institutional outcomes. It also contributes expertise related to privacy, security, accessibility, bias, environmental considerations, and innovation opportunities across the university. 

Workforce Development Committee

The Workforce Development Committee focuses on preparing the UVM workforce to effectively and responsibly use AI. The committee explores workforce impacts, emerging roles, new competencies, and organizational readiness while advancing AI literacy and professional development opportunities. It also works to help units identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and service transformation while sharing successful practices across the university.

Academics: AI Faculty Development and Curricular Efforts

This committee facilitates faculty engagement in shaping UVM's approach to AI across teaching and learning. Working closely with the Faculty Senate, the Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing in the Disciplines, and Enterprise Technology Services, it advances professional development opportunities for faculty, AI literacy, and informed discussion about AI's impact on curriculum, assessment, and academic practice. Its work helps  promote responsible AI use while ensuring that academic integrity, faculty judgment, and disciplinary expertise remain central as AI adoption evolves.