Ohio University leadership received a detailed March 19, 2026 briefing on campus-wide artificial intelligence integration covering curriculum, faculty training, institutional risks, and a proposed initiative with associated investments. The memo outlines existing AI courses and credentials, Konneker and 1804 grant-funded pilots, CTLA’s AI Faculty Fellows and GenAI certification programs, and notes that AI adoption has grown via a decentralized model that now needs more coordinated support. The proposal calls for expanding the AI Fellows program, launching an “AI Friction Hub,” strengthening key industry partnerships, and creating a formal governance structure with a provost-led steering committee, advisory group, and two co-directors.No vendor is yet identified; the focus is on building capacity, infrastructure, and partnerships for AI in teaching, research, and administrative work starting in the next academic year. This creates near-term opportunities for AI/EdTech platforms, training and consulting providers, and integration partners to help design tools, curricula, governance, and staff development aligned with the Dynamic Strategy and human-first AI framework.

University is explicitly seeking to deepen AI literacy, build an AI fellows network, support staff use of AI, and form strategic external partnerships (e.g., Ohio Supercomputer).