Pillar 1: Faculty Education and Community Culture
Built to grow shared understanding and normalize responsible AI through faculty-to-faculty learning.
Grounding foundational AI knowledge in peer conversation, this pillar builds a supportive culture that protects academic integrity while empowering instructors to align AI practices with their specific courses and values.
What you can find here: Faculty testimonials; transparency and syllabus guidance; peer how to’s; curated reading for faculty.
Pillar 3: Teaching and Learning: Instructional Design and Academic Integrity
Built to integrate AI meaningfully into courses while keeping learning authentic and assessment sound.
This pillar focuses on pedagogy first and offers concrete models for course and assessment design at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. It supports ethical use, transparent citation, and integrity‑forward evaluation.
What you can find here: Assignment Bank; sample rubrics; course and assessment design guides; beginner, intermediate, and expert demonstrations; classroom use cases including IAIPC cohort examples.
Pillar 5: Butler Institutional Identity, Values, Data
Built to ground AI in Butler values, leadership vision, and evidence from our campus community.
This pillar frames AI as a human force multiplier that enhances rather than replaces human thought. It connects work across the hub to Boldly Butler and academic integrity and surfaces institutional insights through survey visualizations and leadership perspectives to guide responsible progress.
What you can find here: Butler AI Principles visualization; leadership videos; campus AI survey data and visualizations; force multiplier explainer; value aligned language and resources.
Pillar 2: Practical Tools and Decision Support
Built to support you in making informed decisions about when to use AI, when to not, and which tools to use.
This pillar equips you to make responsible AI choices by aligning tool selection, critical verification, and human oversight with Butler’s academic standards.
What you can find here: AI Compass flowchart; approved and avoided tools from IT; verification checklists; syllabus statement tool; discipline based pathways; tool evaluations such as the PISA Editor.
Pillar 4: Student AI Literacy and Storytelling
Built to help students use AI ethically, verify well, and share authentic Butler voices.
This pillar prepares students to evaluate, cite, and responsibly integrate AI into their academic and professional work through practical literacy tools and ethical guidance. It features authentic student perspectives, shared via blogs, podcasts, and reflections, to help navigate accuracy, bias, and effective task alignment.
What you can find here: Micro learning modules; ethics and verification skills; policies and guidance; student reflections, podcasts, and blogs; curated reading for students.