Artificial Intelligence Task Force
2025-26 AI Task Force Members
- Mitchell McKinney (Convener) – Provost, Office of the Provost
- Gerald (Jerry) Natal (Co-Chair) – Provost Faculty Fellow - University Libraries
- Arjun Sabharwal (Co-Chair) – Provost Faculty Fellow - University Libraries
- Bill McCreary – Division of Technology and Advanced Solutions
- Scott Molitor – Office of the Provost
- Angela Paprocki – Office of the Provost
- Janelle Schaller – Office of Legal Affairs
2025-26 Sub-Committee
Curriculum and Instruction
This committee will work to examine best practices and resources to ensure our students can competently and comfortably utilize AI-based tools, to understand acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI-based tools in their respective disciplines, and to disseminate information, resources, and best practices with our faculty.
Members
- Liang (Leon) Cheng (Chair) – College of Engineering
- An Chung Cheng – Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education
- Anthony Edgington – Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education
- Bill Kalies – College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Tyler Hancock – John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation
- Jeremy Laukka – Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education
- Collen Quinlan – College of Health and Human Services
- Elaine M. Reeves – University Libraries
Health Care
This committee will work to examine AI-based tools and resources to enhance the ability of our clinical faculty and staff to enhance the quality of healthcare we provide our patients, to understand acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI-based tools in their clinical specialties, and to disseminate information, resources, and best practices with our clinical faculty, medical students, residents and clinical staff.
- Members to be determined.
Instruction and Professional Development
This committee will examine training needs for the use of AI-based tools in all aspects of University operations, including teaching, research, clinical practice, and administrative operations. This committee will identify resources that can be utilized or adapted to provide this training or will provide guidance for developing training materials for areas with training needs for which no existing resources can be identified.
Members
- Kimberly Fahey (Chair) – Human Resources Department
- Jeanne Kusina (Co-Chair) – Judith Herb College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
- Payton Beechler -Training and Organizational Development Specialist
- Jason Cox – Judith Herb College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
- Teri Green – College of Graduate Studies
- Begum Gocmen - Staff Development Specialist
- Jolene Miller – University Libraries
Policy
This committee will examine legal and ethical issues associated with the use of AI-based tools in all aspects of University operations, including teaching, research, clinical practice, and administrative operations. This committee will identify areas that require the creation of new policies, the content of these new policies, and required modifications of existing policies.
Members
- Mark Halsey (Chair) - Human Resources Department
- Lisa Miller (Co-Chair) - Director of Faculty and Staff Labor Relations, HR
- Lori DeShetler – College Medicine and Life Sciences
- Kathy Hite – Human Resources Department
- Heidi Shank – School of Nursing, COllege of Helth and Human Serices
- Dale T. Snauwaert – Judith Herb College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Research
This committee will work to examine AI-based tools and resources to enhance the ability of our faculty, students and research staff to conduct research and scholarship, to understand acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI-based tools in their respective disciplines, and to disseminate information, resources, and best practices with our faculty, students and research staff.
Members
- Rick Francis (Chair) - Director, Research Advancement and Information Systems
- Fred Ahrens - John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation
- Eddie Chou - Director of Transportation Systems Research Lab, College of Engineering
- Ben Meyers – Judith Herb College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
- Arjun Sabharwal – University Libraries
- Srinivas Saladi - Cancer and Cell Biology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Michael D. Toland - Judith Herb College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Technology
This committee will identify AI-based tools that can be used to support and enhance all aspects of University operations, including teaching, research, clinical practice, and administrative operations. This committee will also identify University operations that could benefit from the use of AI-based tools that do not yet exist and will explore the feasibility of developing and deploying these AI-based tools.
Members
- Bill McCreary (Chair) – Division of Technology and Advanced Solutions
- John Cavins - Enterprise Business Systems
- Leon Cheng – College of Engineering
- John Napp - University Libraries
- Kyle Parsons - Student Technology Director
- Jonathan Rethorn – DTAS (College of Engineering and Security)
- Sylvia Suh – UToledo Online
- Bobbie Vaughan
- Yue Zhang -John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation
Committee Archive
2024-25 AI Steering Committee Members
- Scott Molitor – Office of the Provost
- Angela Paprocki – Office of the Provost
- Bhuiyan Alam – College of Arts and Letters
- Bill McCreary – Division of Technology and Advanced Solutions
- Janelle Schaller – Office of Legal Affairs
- Gerald (Jerry) Natal - University Libraries
Sub-Committees
Curriculum Members
- Leon Cheng (Chair) – College of Engineering
- An Chung Cheng – College of Arts and Letters
- Anthony Edgington – College of Arts and Letters
- Bill Kalies - College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Colleen Quinlan – College of Nursing
- Daniel J. McInnis - College of Arts and Letters
- Elaine M. Reeves - University Libraries
- Jeremy Laukka – College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Tyler Hancock – College of Business
Healthcare Members
- Bryan T. Hinch - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Douglas Federman - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Hoda Shabpiray - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- James Willey - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- John M. Laux – College of Health and Human Services
- Julie A. Murphy – College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Scott M. Pappada - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Zubia Alam - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Professional Development Members
- Kimberly Fahey (Chair) – Human Resources Department
- Heba Abdel-Rahim – Neff College of Business and Innovation
- Jason Cox – College of Arts and Letters
- Jolene Miller – University Libraries
- Malaika Bell – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Ragheb Assaly – College Medicine and Life Sciences
- Teri Green – College of Graduate Studies
- Jeanne Kusina – College of Arts and Letters
Policy Members
- Mark Halsey (Chair) - Human Resources Department
- Craig A. Turner – Neff College of Business and Innovation
- Heidi Shank - College of Nursing
- Suzanne Smith - College of Arts and Letters
- Dale T. Snauwaert – Judith Herb College of Education
- Kathy Hite – Human Resources Department
- Lori DeShetler – College Medicine and Life Sciences
- Pierrette Renée Dagg - Quello Center for Media and Information Policy (Michigan State University)
Research Members
- Arjun Sabharwal (Chair) – University Libraries
- Ayubur Khan – Institutional Research Office
- Eddie Chou – College of Engineering
- Ben Myers - College of Arts and Letters
- Iryna Pentina – Neff College of Business and Innovation
- Michael D. Toland - Judith Herb College of Education
- Sadik Khuder – College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Qin Shao - College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Shipra Singh - College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Technology Members
- Bill McCreary (Chair) – Division of Technology and Advanced Solutions
- Jared Oluoch – College of Engineering
- Weiqing Sun – College of Engineering
- Tara Hanna – College of Graduate Studies
- Emily Salvage – Enrollment Management
- Sylvia Suh – UToledo Online
- John Napp - University Libraries
- Leon Cheng – College of Engineering