Marquette University is advancing a series of recommendations developed by its university-wide AI Task Force, marking the next phase of the institution’s mission-centered approach to artificial intelligence. Convened during the 2025-26 academic year, the AI Task Force brought together more than 60 faculty and staff members from across the university to examine how artificial intelligence is affecting teaching and learning, clinical education, research, administrative operations, and wellness and student success. The group’s work included reviewing emerging trends, studying practices at peer institutions, gathering campus feedback, and developing recommendations rooted in Marquette’s Catholic, Jesuit mission. A campuswide survey that generated approximately 650 responses also informed the process. The task force’s recommendations were presented to the Executive Leadership Team and are helping shape the university’s ongoing work to support responsible, mission-aligned use of AI.
Key priorities for the coming year The AI Task Force has structured its recommendations into three crucial categories: Governance and guidance, Institutional tools and investment, and Training and AI fluency. The immediate actions stemming from these recommendations involve establishing a robust AI governance framework, updating existing institutional policies to reflect AI considerations, disseminating clear and shared guiding principles for AI use, expanding opportunities for comprehensive training, and identifying strategic priority projects that will inform future investments and decision-making. Additionally, key priorities for the upcoming year include the careful selection and sustained support of institutionally approved AI tools, enhancing access to essential guidance and training resources for all stakeholders, and ensuring that the university’s technological infrastructure is adequately prepared to support the evolving demands of artificial intelligence. These recommendations collectively aim to foster an environment of innovation while rigorously upholding safeguards concerning privacy, data security, academic integrity, ethical considerations in AI development and deployment, and the overall well-being of students. Explore Marquette’s AI resource website Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to visit Marquette’s centralized AI resource website, which serves as the university’s primary hub for guidance, approved tools, training opportunities, policies, resources and best practices related to AI. Developed through a cross-campus collaboration, the site includes dedicated resources for faculty, staff and students. The website also features a “What’s New” section highlighting the latest AI-related news, resources, events and opportunities from across the university. Community invited to yearlong AI discernment series Among the featured initiatives rooted in the AI Task Force’s findings is “What Are We Building? A Year-long Communal Discernment Exercise about AI,” a university-wide series taking place throughout the 2026-27 academic year. Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, the initiative recognizes Catholic universities as important places for the moral and spiritual discernment needed in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. The series will bring together events hosted by units across the university and invite the Marquette community to engage with five key questions inspired by the encyclical. Together, those questions provide a shared framework for considering not only what society is building through AI, but also why, how and for whom those technologies are being developed. More information about the university’s artificial intelligence resources, training opportunities and upcoming events is available on the AI at Marquette website.
Key priorities for the coming year
The AI Task Force has structured its recommendations into three crucial categories: Governance and guidance, Institutional tools and investment, and Training and AI fluency. The immediate actions stemming from these recommendations involve establishing a robust AI governance framework, updating existing institutional policies to reflect AI considerations, disseminating clear and shared guiding principles for AI use, expanding opportunities for comprehensive training, and identifying strategic priority projects that will inform future investments and decision-making. Additionally, key priorities for the upcoming year include the careful selection and sustained support of institutionally approved AI tools, enhancing access to essential guidance and training resources for all stakeholders, and ensuring that the university’s technological infrastructure is adequately prepared to support the evolving demands of artificial intelligence. These recommendations collectively aim to foster an environment of innovation while rigorously upholding safeguards concerning privacy, data security, academic integrity, ethical considerations in AI development and deployment, and the overall well-being of students.
Explore Marquette’s AI resource website
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to visit Marquette’s centralized AI resource website, which serves as the university’s primary hub for guidance, approved tools, training opportunities, policies, resources and best practices related to AI. Developed through a cross-campus collaboration, the site includes dedicated resources for faculty, staff and students. The website also features a “What’s New” section highlighting the latest AI-related news, resources, events and opportunities from across the university.
Community invited to yearlong AI discernment series
Among the featured initiatives rooted in the AI Task Force’s findings is “What Are We Building? A Year-long Communal Discernment Exercise about AI,” a university-wide series taking place throughout the 2026-27 academic year. Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, the initiative recognizes Catholic universities as important places for the moral and spiritual discernment needed in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. The series will bring together events hosted by units across the university and invite the Marquette community to engage with five key questions inspired by the encyclical. Together, those questions provide a shared framework for considering not only what society is building through AI, but also why, how and for whom those technologies are being developed. More information about the university’s artificial intelligence resources, training opportunities and upcoming events is available on the AI at Marquette website.
