Special Committee for Artificial Intelligence

Committee Membership

  • Chair - Maeve Dion - CPS
  • Kathrine Aydelott - Library
  • David Benedetto - CEPS
  • Ivo Nedyalkov - CEPS
  • David Plachetzki - COLSA
  • Cinthia Satornino - Paul
  • Amy Thompson - CPS
  • Karen Van Gundy - COLA

Charges:

Established by UNH Faculty Senate motion # XXIX-M5, this committee’s substantive charges were to: 

  • Prepare a comprehensive list and compilation of related policies and initiatives at UNH related to large language models and artificial intelligence programs (LLMs/AI), in order to avoid duplication of effort and understand different perspectives; 
  • Make suggestions for how different UNH units, faculty, and administrators can learn from each other’s policies and initiatives around LLMs/AI; 
  • Suggest any campus-wide policies that the Senate might consider; 
  • Develop a plan for continuing Faculty Senate involvement and oversight in LLM/AI policy after this academic year. This could be a new shared governance Working Group, standing charges for an existing Faculty Senate, or other modes of engagement; and 
  • Develop a written report on these charges, to be submitted on May 2 and presented to Faculty Senate on May 5. Please include the vote by which your committee approved the report, including votes in favor, votes against, and abstentions.

The goal is NOT to write new policy. Instead, the goal is to review policies created by other units within UNH and associated with either faculty work or the academic mission of UNH (in other words, those within the purview of the faculty senate). If there is a need for a policy, the committee can suggest that a policy be written.

AI Committee Report - Spring 2025