Dear CC Community,

I’m pleased to share the launch of Colorado College’s new Generative AI website, a central space for resources that support how we engage with this rapidly evolving technology across our work and our classrooms.

This moment builds on a significant, community-wide effort over the past two academic years. I want to thank the many individuals who contributed their time and perspectives—particularly the 30-plus student, faculty, and staff members of the various Enterprise GenAI Strategy Groups and their chairs.  

Thank you, too, to those who organized and participated in discussions and programming around GenAI through the Crown Center for Teaching over the last two years, with additional opportunities to come this spring and summer.

I appreciate your willingness to lean into this work together. 

GenAI Steering Committee (chairs of the Enterprise GenAI Strategy Groups) 

Through their focused research, discussion, exploration, and pop-up style community engagements, this group helped determine the approach and level of GenAI guidance that would benefit our campus most. They worked together to establish frameworks that would shape several key deliverables: a Generative AI Philosophy, Generative AI Guidelines, recommended tools, and a divisional policy template.

These resources have been thoughtfully co-created and refined to support responsible adoption across the institution. They are intended to provide a shared foundation as our community continues to explore what GenAI means for our learning, our work, and our people. Rather than prescribing a single approach, Colorado College supports open conversation, thoughtful experimentation, and a range of approaches to using—or choosing not to use—GenAI.

At the center of this work are two complementary documents: 

Together, these documents offer a shared foundation that will inform more concrete divisional GenAI policies, to be developed during the 2026-27 academic year.

The new Generative AI hub brings these elements together in one place. In addition to the Philosophy and Guidelines, you’ll find information about the human and environmental impacts of GenAI; recommended and non-recommended tools for use at CC; guidance on safety, security, and risk mitigation; training and support resources; and a range of perspectives from our campus and alumni communities on how GenAI is being used in practice.

This work does not belong to any one division of the College. While a forthcoming GenAI Governance Group will help steward these resources, support implementation, and facilitate engagement in the coming year, responsibility for how we move forward is shared across the institution. The strength of this effort depends on our collective engagement—so please explore the website, consider how these resources connect to your work, and continue participating in the conversations ahead.  

We look forward to collaborating further as divisional policies begin to take shape in the next academic year.  

Sincerely,

Khaleel Gathers

Vice President & Chief Information Officer

14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903