“With all new powerful breakthroughs in technology, there is an opportunity for doing both great harm and great good. Eastern is making a deliberate choice to teach our students to understand AI and look for ways to use its potential well. Much of what we have seen so far - automating mundane tasks or accelerating access to good research - is trivial compared to what AI has the potential to offer. I look forward to what the creative minds of our students will achieve in the future as they put such powerful tools to good use.”

“Eastern University is adopting a transformative approach to artificial intelligence, embracing its pedagogical and operational power as a tool for innovation. We’ve provided university-wide access to secure tools like Google Gemini, established a Faculty AI Working Group, and emphasized dedicated faculty development initiatives. Looking ahead, we are embedding AI into general education, developing standalone coursework, and exploring student-AI collaboration models grounded in clear ethical protocols, all to prepare our community to lead with wisdom in a rapidly evolving digital world.”

“Machine learning, the basis of artificial intelligence, is found throughout our computer and data science courses. By integrating AI tools into courses and emphasizing fundamentals in math, coding, and problem solving, we help students use AI ethically and practically. We also recently launched a new MS in Applied Artificial Intelligence that prepares students to design, implement, and lead practical AI-driven solutions and navigate the real-world challenges and implications of a rapidly developing AI landscape.”

“AI is shaping every aspect of business, and future leaders must be prepared to apply it strategically in order to improve business processes, build AI-optimized marketing campaigns, and harness predictive algorithms that spark future innovations, all within a challenging ethical framework. For the past two years, the College of Business and Leadership has introduced students to AI through hands-on exercises. Now, through our AI Business Strategy concentration, immersive simulations, and insights from industry leaders, our students are on a path to becoming among the most ethical and effective transformational change agents in their organizations.”

“Artificial intelligence is a topic of growing importance for the Church. Our churches have a vital opportunity to explore how the intentional and ethical integration of AI can strengthen ministry, deepen community, foster spiritual formation, and enhance our witness in a digital world. Our annual Science and Religion Symposium was created for cultural moments like this – to invite thoughtful engagement with a relevant scientific issue, like AI’s impact on faith and community, and to equip our students and faith communities to lead with vision, wisdom, and a faithful curiosity.”

“Utilizing AI gives us the opportunity to reimagine how we work, serve, and make university operations more streamlined. The result is a smarter, more reliable workflow environment that supports and empowers staff in their everyday tasks. Thoughtful adoption helps us manage our work more efficiently while keeping creativity, connection, and human flourishing at the center of how we steward innovation with wisdom and care.”

“100 years ago, long before the internet existed and the specter of AI, Eastern launched its mission of ‘the whole gospel, to the whole world, through whole persons.’ Today, we're living in a new era, where the advent of novel technologies in artificial intelligence will transform the whole world. Whatever the future holds, Eastern is ready, as an institution and as individual persons who care about the whole world, to apply the insights of our faith, and our faithful intellects, to the challenges that lie ahead.”