Marquette AI Task Force Recommendations Set Next Steps on AI 

Marquette AI Task Force

Marquette University announced on October 19, 2026, that it is moving ahead with the Marquette AI Task Force recommendations. The task force, convened during the 2025-26 academic year, included more than 60 faculty and staff members from across campus. It presented its findings to the university’s Executive Leadership Team. Those findings now shape how Marquette plans to use AI in ways that fit its Catholic, Jesuit mission. 

 How the work was done. The group reviewed AI trends, studied peer institutions, and gathered campus feedback. A campuswide survey drew about 650 responses. Work groups covered teaching and learning, clinical education, research, operations, and student success and wellness. 

 Three categories. The recommendations fall under governance and guidance, institutional tools and investment, and training and AI fluency. 

 

  • Specific actions. They include building an AI governance structure, updating policies, communicating shared principles, expanding training, and identifying priority projects to guide future spending. The university would also choose and support approved tools and make sure its infrastructure can handle new demands. 

 

  • Safeguards. The plan aims to encourage innovation while protecting privacy, security, academic integrity, ethical decision-making, and student well-being. 

 

  • A central hub. Faculty, staff, and students can use Marquette’s AI resource website for guidance, approved tools, training, and policies. It has separate sections for each group and a “What’s New” page. An updated version of the site launched in May 2026. 

 A year of discernment. The 2026-27 series “What Are We Building?” will ask the community five questions drawn from Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. The encyclical addresses safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. 

 The Marquette AI Task Force recommendations set priorities rather than final policy. Marquette has so far described its approach as “intentionally enabling rather than restrictive.” The discernment series also shows the university wants a moral and spiritual conversation about AI, not only technical rules. The task force has said it will engage students at a later date.