Middlebury College
VT · AI Readiness #149 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 6.1 /10
A $15M gift funds AI work across Middlebury, and DLINQ runs weekly workshops, mini-grants, and an Assignment Redesign Institute to keep faculty building AI into their courses.
The Parker Harris gift splits between pedagogical innovation and midd.data, funding both teaching redesign and new data infrastructure. A Presidential Special Advisor and a cross-campus Task Force give it visible leadership. DLINQ runs weekly workshops, a mini-grant program, and an Assignment Redesign Institute, keeping faculty engaged year-round. Faculty across Economics, Sociology, and other departments are publishing AI research, which should help increase the school's AI visibility.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: C
- Curriculum: B-
- Partnerships: A
- Research: D
A(I)ttitude™: neutral
Selected Highlights
- AJ Vasiliou appointed Special Advisor on AI and Academic Computing in June 2026 — a Presidential-level appointment with explicit AI policy and curriculum scope.
- AI Task Force is President-appointed, cross-campus (faculty, students, administrators, trustees), with documented output including principles page and strategic plan AI pillar.
- Parker Harris $15M gift (May 2025) includes $5M endowed for AI pedagogical innovation and $8M for midd.data — named, dollar-figure philanthropic AI commitment.
- Institutional credential-gated access to Google Gemini, NotebookLM, Microsoft Copilot Chat, and Adobe Firefly confirmed for all students via official IT and AI pages.
- DLINQ GenAI Hub, CTLR/DLINQ faculty workshop series, AI mini-grant program, and Assignment (Re)Design Institute (July 2026) constitute multiple distinctly named components available broadly.