University of North Dakota
ND · AI Readiness #139 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 6.4 /10
UND undergrads can earn an AI and Digital Storytelling certificate open to journalism, business, and political science students, while accessing Medora, a new NVIDIA Grace Hopper GPU cluster available at no cost to the entire campus community.
UND's Co.AI Collective, co-chaired by faculty from engineering and medicine and drawing representatives from every college, coordinates AI strategy under the President's office, with President Armacost publicly declaring UND's goal to become the AI university for North Dakota. The AI and Human Innovation Initiative, co-led by the Theatre Arts department, brings arts and humanities students into the conversation alongside the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, which has active federal funding and more than 275 peer-reviewed publications from its director alone.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: C
- Curriculum: B
- Partnerships: D
- Research: B+
A(I)ttitude™: neutral
Selected Highlights
- Co.AI Collective is formally chartered under the President's office with named co-chairs (Anna Kinney and Richard Van Eck), all-college cross-campus membership, and a public web presence with documented outputs including guidance documents and a moonshot strategy page.
- Presidential moonshot directive (August 2025 State of the University address) plus Provost AI guidelines page plus Co.AI charter together satisfy 4 of 4 qualifying criteria: stated goals, governance commitments, ethical guidelines, and named programs.
- AIR Center (College of Engineering & Mines, directed by Dr. Naima Kaabouch) and AI and Human Innovation Initiative (Provost's Office, co-chaired by Theatre Arts) together constitute two cross-disciplinary AI structures with active programming within the past 2 years.
- Scite.ai confirmed as a university-purchased AI research tool accessible to UND researchers and students via the Chester Fritz Library subscription. A second qualifying tool (non-Microsoft) was not confirmed for all-student enterprise deployment.
- Multiple named AI training components confirmed: TTaDA AI Across the Curriculum faculty workshops, T&L 2900 AI and Education course, CRC Medora introductory workshop (June 2026), CRC Talon AI/ML Jupyter workshop, and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute access via David Apostal's University Ambassador certification.