Lehigh University: Comprehensive AI Governance & Activity Inventory
A 188-page public-source inventory of artificial intelligence governance, teaching, research, and operations at Lehigh University.
A 188-page public-source inventory of artificial intelligence governance, teaching, research, and operations at Lehigh University. Evidence snapshot date: June 10, 2026. The document records what the university has said and done publicly about AI as of that date. It is not an audit, maturity assessment, or scorecard.
Part I covers ten institutional domains: governance architecture, policy infrastructure, teaching and learning posture, tool ecosystem and procurement, academic integrity, research governance and ethics, library and information literacy, infrastructure and strategic investment, public statements, and an evidence archive. Part II contains nine unit dossiers, one for each of the five colleges plus I-DISC (the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation), the Office of the Provost, the Library and Technology Services cluster, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, using a uniform six-part structure: Governance & Policy, People, Teaching & Curriculum, Tools & Technology, Research & Scholarship, and Events & Programming. Each dossier opens with a Key Signals assessment and closes with Gaps and Observations, Cross-References to related units, and an annotated source list.
The inventory documents an institution whose AI governance is centralized in the Provost's office to a degree uncommon among research universities of its size. A single Generative AI Advisory Group, established January 20, 2025 and reporting jointly to the Provost and the Vice President for Finance and Administration, produced a public report within four months and seeded a permanent steering apparatus spanning the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, the Office of Educational Innovation and Assessment, and the campus-wide AI Readiness initiative announced in October 2025. The record captures the LibreChat-based LLM Gateway giving faculty and graduate students free access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Google models; the explicit decision to opt out of Turnitin's AI-detection add-on on false-positive grounds; the April 2026 reorganization that split the merged Library and Technology Services into an Arts and Libraries division and a standalone Information Technology Services unit; the Center for Career and Professional Development's employer AI-fluency study; the Forlenza Endowed Chair's explicit AI mandate in the College of Health; and governance principles that remain a moving target, with a revised draft scheduled to replace the current version in spring 2026.
Approximately 65,000 words; 237 unique source URLs. Sources are entirely public: institutional web pages, news releases, faculty profiles, grant databases, policy documents, and public filings. The inventory uses no FOIA-obtained material and includes no interview data. Every major claim carries a URL. The phrase “Not publicly documented in available sources” denotes absence of evidence, not evidence of absence. Where sources conflict, both versions are reported flat, with dates, rather than resolved editorially.
This inventory is one of several companion reference documents produced from a broader study of 53 American universities, alongside inventories for the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, William & Mary, and Marymount University, a peer benchmark of 23 BOV-adopted national peer institutions, and a Virginia public-source reference guide covering 30 four-year institutions. It stands as an independent reference document and is not derivative of the related working paper Governance Without Readiness: How 53 American Universities Responded to Generative AI. Intended for institutional researchers, governance staff, faculty senates, journalists, and policy researchers seeking a citable baseline of Lehigh University's public AI footprint.