Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Cleveland State
This website helps faculty, staff, and students with centralized information on AI-related training, events, research, and resources. We are connecting the campus community to workshops, events, tools, and best practices for integrating AI into teaching and research. To add your content to this site please contact Chris Rennison in the Office of Instructional Excellence.
Events
Getting Started with Copilot Agents
Microsoft Copilot Agents are AI-powered assistants you can customize to work the way you do with no coding required. In this intro session, you'll build your very first agent using Copilot's easy to use panels.
Thursday, August 20th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
Zoom
Prompt Smarter: Better Prompts, Better Results
Develop practical prompting strategies that produce more accurate, useful results. You'll explore techniques like role assignment, chain-of-thought prompting, and iterative refinement — applied to real tasks from your own work — and leave with a repeatable framework you can use immediately.
Thursday, September 17th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
Rhodes West 280
AI Use and Professional Credibility
AI Workshop for Students
Join Emilie Zickel, Data Security Analyst at Sherwin Williams, as she discusses
AI Use and Professional Credibility
Thursday, September 24th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
LCLC (first floor of the library)
How (Not) to Use AI in Your Math Class
AI Workshop for Students
Join Dr. Sara Froehlich, Assistant Professor of Practice and Director, Operation STEM as she discusses How (Not) to Use AI in Your Math Class.
Thursdays, October 1st and 8th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
LCLC (first floor of the library)
AI and Authentic Assessments
This workshop explores how to design authentic assessments that align with the presence of use of generative AI. Rather than use AI to create assessments, the session focuses on crafting meaningful learning experiences that remain relevant and effective in an AI-enabled classroom.
Thursday, October 15th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
Rhodes West 280
AI Ethics in Action: What Would You Do?
AI Workshop for Students
Join Michael Schwartz Librarians Mandi Goodsett, Kathy Fisher, and Theresa M. Nawalaniec as they discuss AI Ethics in Action.
Thursday, November 5th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
LCLC (first floor of the Library)
Getting Started with Copilot Agents
Microsoft Copilot Agents are AI-powered assistants you can customize to work the way you do with no coding required. In this intro session, you'll build your very first agent using Copilot's simple Design and Describe panels.
Thursday, November 19th, 11:30am to 12:20pm
Rhodes West 280
AI News and Development at CSU
Cleveland State University College of Law is working with AltaClaro to offer students a Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering for Lawyers certificate program. The program covers topics including verification and professional judgment for AI-assisted legal workflows as well as AI’s limitations in the legal practice.
Learn MoreDr. Joanne Goodell, director of Levin College's School of Education, recently co-wrote an opinion piece for Crain's Cleveland Business about how artificial intelligence (A.I.) is prompting higher education to evolve.
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Powered by artificial intelligence, she is the University’s first fully autonomous virtual engagement officer who will connect with alumni, donors and supporters in new, highly personalized ways. CSU is one of the first universities nationwide to pioneer this shift in operations in partnership with Givzey, a Boston-based digital fundraising and engagement company.
Read MoreCriminology Assistant Professor Rachel Lovell's research was recently published in the Journal of Criminal Justice. Her work focused on teaching a computer to detect innuendo (or signaling) about a victim's credibility in incident reports of rape. The study explored if the words expressed or not expressed, intentionally or not, influenced case progression and outcomes.
Learn MoreCleveland State University was awarded a grant for $600,000 to aid in Mobilizing the Emerging Diverse AI Talent (MEDAL) through Design and Automated Control of Automated Scientific Laboratories.
Learn MoreDr. Ye Zhu, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received $139,534 to develop trainings and programs to build the cybersecurity workforce in the US. The project, titled “Revitalize Auto Industry: Elevating Automotive Workforce Excellence through Cybersecurity and AI Innovation,” is led by Dr. Huirong Fu of Oakland University and funded via the National Security Agency’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) program.
Learn MoreProfessor Brian Ray led an interdisciplinary team of AI experts at the first annual EU AI Act Grand Challenge hosted by St. Gallen University in July 2022. Ray's team -- AI in the Public Interest or AIPI -- included Erman Ayday (CWRU Engineering), Erika George (Utah Law), Anisa Halimi (IBM Ireland), Charles Helleputte (Squire Sanders France/Belgium) and Hadrien Pouget (Carnegie Endowment).
Learn MoreAI Resources for Faculty and Staff
Contact Information
To add your content to this site
please contact:
Chris Rennison
c.rennison@csuohio.edu
Office of Instructional Excellence
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214