In Spring 2025, the CSU Chancellor’s Office launched an AI Strategy to centralize resources and support campus AI plans through an AI Commons. This includes enterprise access to AI tools, professional development, and workforce training. An advisory board with industry partners and campus stakeholders will guide innovation and ethics.
Our Action Plan focuses on (1) integrating AI into academic curriculum for job readiness, (2) training the campus community to use AI creatively for research and innovation, and (3) exploring AI’s potential for predictive analytics in student success.
ChatGPT Edu will be available to all faculty, and staff on by beginning of April, 2025 and to active students in July 2025. Alumni are not eligible at this time.
- ChatGPT for Education (CSU Announcement)
- AI in Action @Cal State Channel Islands
- Artificial Intelligence Guidelines
Al@CI: Speaker Series
THE ECONOMIC PROMISE OF Al
Speaker: Dr. Sandeep Krishnamurthy
When: September 23, 2025, 10:00AM - 11:30AM
- The CSU system has made a bold commitment to Al. How do we leverage this investment to boldly connect first-generation students to prosperous economic futures? Learn more (PDF, 3MB)
AI Across the CSU: Innovations and Insights
Join us for an exploration of good work with Generative Artificial Intelligence going on within the CSU system. This four-part “lunch and learn” series will take place every other Wednesday, at noon, March 26 to May 7. It explores best practices for course design, campus engagement, and exploration from your peers. Each 45-minute webinar is a stand-alone session, but there will be common threads throughout. All material will be recorded and shared so that good ideas can be implemented on different campuses. We look forward to sharing the great work being done within the CSU.
For Faculty:
| Date | Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| March 26, 2025 | 12:00 -12:45pm | AI Retrofit: A Proven Approach to Course Redesign for AI from Chico State |
| April 9, 2025 | 12:00 -12:45pm | Where is your campus at? The SDSU AI Usage Survey for Faculty and Students |
| April 23, 2025 | 12:00 -12:45pm | AI in Different Modalities. Panel Presentation on Approaches for in Person Learning, Online Synchronous and Online Asynchronous Learning |
| May 7, 2025 | 12:00 -12:45pm | Fostering AI Literacy |
Register for AI Across the CSU: Innovations and Insights
Learn more: AI Webinar Series | CSU AI Commons
For Staff:
| Date | Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2025 | 2:00pm PDT | José Antonio Bowen |
Working with GenAI Webinar. Learn the Skills to Harness New Tools at Work for Higher Ed Professionals/Staff |
From the AAC&U
You may also be interested in the American Association of Colleges & Universities’ (AAC&U) AI Week webinars and/or their recordings.
"AI Week" Is Underway!
AAC&U's "AI Week" kicked off yesterday with "The State of AI in Higher Education and What Is to Come." This series of free webinars is designed to help faculty, staff, and administrators explore how AI is transforming higher education. Discover the latest trends, hear from senior leaders on AI’s future impact, and learn how.
- CSU AI Common Resources
- CSU’s Got Talent - AI Tools, Ethics & Challenges (SSO required)
- Self-paced ChatGPT learning resources are also available below:
- OpenAI, LLMs & ChatGPT (05:34)
- Multimodality Explained (10:24)
- Introduction to Prompt Engineering (05:52)
- Introduction to GPTs (06:40)
- ChatGPT Search (05:43)
- Advanced Prompt Engineering (08:50)
- ChatGPT for Data Analysis (04:48)
- DO: understand campus and CSU policies around information classification standard
- DO: be aware that Generative AI tools are still at their infancy and may not yield the most accurate results
- DO: understand that certain AI-generated materials (such as meeting summary) sent via email may be discoverable
- DO NOT: share, store, or process Level 1 data in any Generative AI tools
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- ITS team is actively working with OpenAI and the CSU to configure Cal State University’s ChatGPT Edu environment.
- We anticipate faculty, and staff having access to ChatGPT Edu in the March/Beginning of April 2025 timeframe.
ChatGPT Edu is a specialized version of OpenAI's ChatGPT tailored for educational institutions. It offers universities and colleges a secure and scalable platform to integrate advanced AI tools into their academic environments
Key Features:
- Enhanced Language Capabilities: Utilizes OpenAI's GPT4o model, supporting over 50 languages with improved quality and speed.
- Enterprise-Level Security: Provides robust data privacy and security measures, including Single Sign-On (SSO), domain verification, customizable data retention policies, and compliance with SOC 2 Type 2 standards.
- Custom AI Development: Allows institutions to create custom AI models tailored to specific courses or administrative functions, enhancing both learning and operational efficiency.
- Free Access to GPT-4o: While ChatGPT Plus, which uses GPT-4o, costs $20/month, we are providing this GPT-4o Edu tool at no cost to users.
- Increased Privacy and Security: User data stays within Cal State Channel Islands Edu workspace and is not used to train ChatGPT’s public-facing large language model (LLM), reducing risks and protecting personal and university data.
- Optimized for Higher Ed: ChatGPT Edu is specifically designed to support learning, teaching, research and administrative work.
- Cal State Channel Islands ChatGPT Edu environment, and its encompassing data, will remain private to Cal State Channel Islands.
- Cal State Channel Islands conversations or data will not be shared with OpenAI or other universities, for training purposes or AI models. ChatGPT Edu has robust data privacy, security and administrative controls such as group permissions, etc.