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AI Council

AI Council

The AI Council is a university-wide body of faculty and staff charged with advising Tufts leadership on AI educational strategy. The AI Council advances institutional engagement with AI education through three primary functions.

First, it supports faculty and staff professional development by overseeing the AI Faculty Fellows program, collaborating with TTS/ETS and CELT to enhance faculty literacy and training initiatives, sponsoring cross-school AI-related events, and securing funding to promote AI literacy.

Second, it provides institution-wide AI guidance, working with OIR to administer and review annual surveys on AI-related activities across students, faculty, and staff, and conducting yearly reviews and updates of institutional AI guidelines, including the Tufts Generative AI Usage Guidelines for Faculty, Staff, and Students adopted by the Tufts AI Council in spring 2026.

Finally, the Council fosters cross-school collaboration by partnering with OUSP, employers, and market data to identify educational programming opportunities, collaborate with TIAI to integrate education and research, identify opportunities for core competencies across the curriculum, and review and advise on new AI-related programs during the approval process.

The AI Council works in coordination with the Tufts Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Council Members

AI Council members and leaders are appointed by the provost’s office in consultation with the school deans and current AI Council. Membership consists of no less than one representative from each of the Tufts schools, with multiple members drawn from schools with more active AI-related education portfolios. In addition to school representation, the Council includes members from a range of AI of perspectives, including critical voices. The Council also includes representation from key administrative units across campus, such as TTS, CELT, library, community standards, career center, CMHS, StAAR, etc.