UBalt’s AI Landscape: Your Voice, Your Impact
Over the past two years, UBalt has emerged as a national contributor to the growing conversation around AI in higher education. Our first AI landscape survey and follow-up interviews with faculty and staff provided insights featured in Ithaka S+R’s Making AI Generative for Higher Ed, a national report highlighting institutional strengths and challenges across the country. Thanks to UBalt’s participation, researchers were able to illustrate how real educators are navigating AI’s evolving role in teaching, learning, and scholarship. More importantly, faculty contributions helped shape our own institutional approach to generative AI, a thoughtful, values-driven set of guidelines that prioritize academic integrity, digital equity, and practical classroom use.
That progress is only possible when faculty voices are centered, and that matters even more in a community like ours. UBalt serves adult learners, transfer students, first-generation college students, and working professionals alike. Our students are curious; some want to understand the basics so they can use these tools effectively, while others have deeper concerns about how AI will impact their degrees, their careers, and their futures. They’re looking to you for clarity, perspective, and reassurance. As we enter our third year of AI-related initiatives, we’re once again asking you to share your experiences so that our evolving policies and support structures can continue to reflect the needs of our faculty and students.
Your feedback directly shapes how we support AI literacy across disciplines, design professional development opportunities, and build ethical frameworks for student and faculty use. We’ve already heard that many instructors are experimenting with AI tools but are unsure how best to align them with learning goals. Others have raised concerns about equitable access, academic integrity, and the need for clearer course design guidance. These themes appear not only in national reports but also in our own policies and planning.
Click here to take the 10-minute AI Landscape Faculty Survey
(This is a confidential survey and part of a national research effort led by Ithaka S+R.)
UBalt’s future with AI will only be as strong as the people who help shape it. That starts with you.
