AI Initiatives

ACORN Toolkit

The ACORN Toolkit empowers faculty to strategically integrate AI across entire programs, fostering cohesive curricula, critical thinking, and workforce-ready graduates through scalable, faculty-led design.

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AI in Action

The AI in Action initiative showcases how faculty and staff are applying AI tools and practices creatively and responsibly across campus through case videos and examples.

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AI Survey

The SDSU AI Survey collects campus-wide data on students’, faculty’s and staff’s experiences, perceptions and training needs for AI to inform teaching and learning.

AI-Ready California

AI-Ready California is a first-in-the-nation statewide program designed to meet the growing demand for AI skills in California workplaces through free, fully online, self-paced coursework on AI fundamentals, responsible use, and practical workplace applications.

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Leading AI-Ready Programs

Leading AI-Ready Programs is a faculty-led summer pilot that gives departments time and structure to step back, make sense of what’s happening, and prepare for the fall.

AAAI Micro-Credential

The Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro‑Credential is a self-paced program that prepares students, faculty and staff to use generative AI effectively, ethically and in discipline-specific ways.

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Equitable AI Alliance

The Equitable AI Alliance is a regional consortium that partners institutions to democratize access to AI tools, training and research, reducing equity gaps in the AI-driven future.

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AI-Ready Course Design

The AI-Ready Course Design workshop supports faculty in embedding AI-infused, ethically grounded assignments into required courses across majors.