Appalachian AI Consortium

A consortium gives institutions, especially small and mid-sized campuses, the scale to share staff, legal review, security, faculty development and model evaluation in order to procure power while retaining local control over academic policy and records

Consortium Governance

• Shared infrastructure operates under common privacy and security
• Data sovereignty rules specify ownership and allowed uses
• Cultural-stewardship board includes librarians, archivists, faculty and students
• AI policy commons – Shared model policies and syllabus language
• Shared library AI Citation-based regional research assistant
• Regional digital collections Rights-cleared archival and local-history corpus – Preserves and expands Appalachian knowledge
• Student AI-literacy credential Cross-campus micro credential and ethical competence
• AI assessment studio for assignment redesign repository
• Community innovation lab partners with schools, libraries, nonprofits, and small businesses with benefits rooted in the region