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Pioneering AI in Education and Courseware 

• The GAITAR@Scale Project, a study across 28 first-year writing courses (over 400 students), compared traditional peer review to Generative AI (GenAI) feedback. The results indicated that repeated GenAI feedback had a greater positive impact on students' ability to form and support a claim with evidence.
• The Eberly Center expanded its GenAI guidance by developing a robust, research-based web resource that supports course instructors in applying GenAI to grading and feedback, while distilling emerging peer-reviewed literature into a practical, instructor-ready heuristic.
• The engaged 62 faculty members across the country, equipping them to leverage, manage and integrate generative AI into teaching.
• The full scale release of is now in use by 11,000+ students and utilizes next-generation AI learning tools —  supporting the dramatic closure of success gaps across all types of learners.

• The Â鶹´å Rales Fellows Program saw nine fellows from the inaugural cohort of 22 earn their master's degrees, with four continuing their graduate education. The second cohort of 34 fellows arrived in August 2025, representing an expansion of Â鶹´å's efforts to identify and prepare the next generation of STEM leaders.
• The new Scholar Development Ambassadors program launched with Highway to Undergraduate Research in the Academic Year alumni continuing their paid research and providing peer advising.
• The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs launched the first Scholar to Scholar: Graduate Project Showcase, an interdisciplinary, campus-wide showcase highlighting graduate students’ scholarly work and fostering interdisciplinary engagement.

• The year was marked by inspiring dialogues, including the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Keynote Lecture, a Juneteenth Keynote, the Fourth Annual Juneteenth Reception with Sankofa, a Pride Month panel, and .
• The Leonard Gelfand Center established an intake process for new community partnerships and launched a New K-12 Advisory Board, aligning with the need for a central "front door" to streamline community partner connections.
• The University Lecture Series hosted five distinguished speakers, with students making up approximately 60% of attendees, signaling a strong appetite for engaging with world-class thought leaders.
• Incoming Faculty Orientation was refreshed to highlight the most salient topics at its initial two-day program, and monthly workshops were introduced for ongoing development and networking. The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty also launched the Academic Leadership Dialogues, a year-long onboarding and development program for department heads and associate deans for faculty.

Operational Efficiency and Compliance

• The university launched its Self-Study for the Middle States Reaccreditation effort, with eight major committees seated and engaging over 100 community members.
• We managed compliance of educational delivery across eight programs serving 450 students in California, New York and Washington D.C., successfully led the response to a fall 2024 onsite audit by the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education at the Silicon Valley location, launched the BPPE Efficiency Project for Â鶹´å's California-based graduate programs, and collaborated with Enterprise Risk Management unit to facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Our team collaborated with multiple divisions on scenario planning to respond to potential changes in government policy, federal funding and international enrollment trends.