Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer Steve Fleagle reflects on OneIT’s role in key University of Iowa artificial intelligence initiatives and highlights new technology solutions that are enabling students, instructors, and researchers to succeed.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
STUDENT SUCCESS
RESEARCH
SUPPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
"AI is growing rapidly every day, and there’s a need to evaluate these applications to understand how they fit into our environment."
"We talked with students and campus offices about where we could create value. We didn’t want to recreate existing tools but instead pull them together and help students get to the right place at the right time."
"We expose participants to different tools but try to focus on enterprise-supported services like Microsoft Copilot that everyone can access. We emphasize data security and privacy, as well as ethical considerations for different contexts."
“The tool can identify students who may need support as early as week four. Giving advisors this data-driven tool can help tailor conversations and give students more time to impact their learning outcomes.”
From new communities to chatbots: team explores role of AI
Real-time insights for academic advising
Developing a homegrown course feedback system
Leading the way in financial aid change implementation
Right place, right time
Charting language proficiency: a new self-assessment tool at UI
No experience required
Uniting bright minds and innovative technologies
Enhancing IT infrastructure, classroom technology, and data access
400
Microsoft Copilot Test Flight Participants
15,000
Financial Aid packages delivered four weeks after receiving 2024-25 results
75 %
of first-year students downloaded the new UI mobile app during OnIowa!
82 %
of Iowa's 32,000+ students receive nearly $500M in financial assistance using a newly built system for award processing
74,433
evaluations submitted through the new Student Perceptions of Teaching tool
13,700 +
downloads of UI's new mobile app for students
60
undergraduate advisors are piloting ICON Indicator for spring 2025
1,200
Participants enrolled in HawkAI, the new artificial intelligence training program with foundational and research-focused courses
2.5
weeks spent in Edge of Academy research program, an immersive STEM experience for students
7
compute nodes added to the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS), including graphics processing units purchased for AI model building and tuning
64
UI classrooms received technology improvements
5,172
Fiber strands terminated across campus as fiber optic cables were upgraded or replaced to enhance performance
$ 70,000 +
investment to improve cooling system for high-performance computing workloads
2.2 million
page views on the ITS website
400
Linux servers migrated from CentOS7 to Ubuntu or Rocky Linux
117 +
staff trained to edit the ITS website