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Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Cleveland State

This website helps faculty, staff, and students with centralized information on AI-related training, events, research, and resources. We are connecting the campus community to workshops, events, tools, and best practices for integrating AI into teaching and research. To add your content to this site please contact Chris Rennison in the Office of Instructional Excellence.

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Develop practical prompting strategies that produce more accurate, useful results. You'll explore techniques like role assignment, chain-of-thought prompting, and iterative refinement — applied to real tasks from your own work — and leave with a repeatable framework you can use immediately.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 11:30am to 12:20pm

Explore how to use Microsoft Learn for self-paced skill building and the Microsoft Engage Center for enterprise-level training and resources already ��Ӱֱ�� through CSU’s Microsoft agreement.

Tuesday, July 21st, 11:30am to 12:20pm

Microsoft Copilot Agents are AI-powered assistants you can customize to work the way you do with no coding required. In this intro session, you'll build your very first agent using Copilot's simple Design and Describe panels.

Thursday, August 20th, 11:30am to 12:20pm

AI Symposium

Thank you to everyone who attended ��Ӱֱ��'s 3rd Annual AI Symposium! The AI Symposium is a one-day event bringing together educators, researchers, industry leaders and students to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence in higher education.

Faculty AI Literacy Certificate

The Office of Instructional Excellence and have partnered to develop a certificate course for faculty to help understand Generative AI and its use. This course is completely asynchronous and can be completed at the faculty member's own pace.

Workshops and Programs

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AI Workshops for Faculty and Staff

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Generative AI Workshops - Continuing Education

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AI News and Development at CSU

��Ӱֱ�� College of Law is working with AltaClaro to offer students a Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering for Lawyers certificate program. The program covers topics including verification and professional judgment for AI-assisted legal workflows as well as AI’s limitations in the legal practice.

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Dr. Joanne Goodell, director of Levin College's School of Education, recently co-wrote an opinion piece for Crain's Cleveland Business about how artificial intelligence (A.I.) is prompting higher education to evolve.

Meet Ava, CSU's first fully autonomous virtual engagement officer

Powered by artificial intelligence, she is the University’s first fully autonomous virtual engagement officer who will connect with alumni, donors and supporters in new, highly personalized ways. CSU is one of the first universities nationwide to pioneer this shift in operations in partnership with , a Boston-based digital fundraising and engagement company.

Criminology Assistant Professor Rachel Lovell's research was recently published in the Journal of Criminal Justice. Her work focused on teaching a computer to detect innuendo (or signaling) about a victim's credibility in incident reports of rape. The study explored if the words expressed or not expressed, intentionally or not, influenced case progression and outcomes.

��Ӱֱ�� was awarded a grant for $600,000 to aid in Mobilizing the Emerging Diverse AI Talent (MEDAL) through Design and Automated Control of Automated Scientific Laboratories.

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Dr. Ye Zhu, a professor in the Department of , has received $139,534 to develop trainings and programs to build the cybersecurity workforce in the US. The project, titled “Revitalize Auto Industry: Elevating Automotive Workforce Excellence through Cybersecurity and AI Innovation,” is led by Dr. Huirong Fu of Oakland University and funded via the National Security Agency’s (NCAE-C) program.

Professor Brian Ray led an interdisciplinary team of AI experts at the first annual hosted by St. Gallen University in July 2022. Ray's team -- AI in the Public Interest or AIPI -- included Erman Ayday (CWRU Engineering), Erika George (Utah Law), Anisa Halimi (IBM Ireland), Charles Helleputte (Squire Sanders France/Belgium) and Hadrien Pouget (Carnegie Endowment).