Summer 2025 Semester in Review
Though much of ASU’s community departs or vacations for the summer, Enterprise Technology remains diligent, investing tireless efforts to ensure that students, faculty and staff returning in the fall are welcomed with new digital solutions for learning, collaboration and innovation. By developing creative, often AI-powered tools for everything from tutoring to upskilling to learning design, Enterprise Technology advances its mission to serve the community with evolving, robust and timely frameworks that support academic success and spark meaningful connections.
By the Numbers
The summer 2025 “By the Numbers” report shows progress in scaling, serving, learning, protecting and thriving at ASU. It tells us how well our teams did and provides qualitative figures for their accomplishments.
Summer 2025 semester recap: Key stories
Throughout the past semester, our newsroom has covered exciting developments centered around technological advancements. Each narrative dives into the ambitious efforts of our students, learners, faculty, and staff, highlighting their dedication to staying current with technological advancements and leveraging them to enhance learning outcomes.
These stories underscore ASU's commitment to responsible innovation, both on campus and across the wider Arizona community.
Read on to explore additional highlights from the past semester that showcase Enterprise Technology's commitment to improving learning and working experiences at ASU and beyond.
1.Artificial Intelligence
ASU faculty and technologists collaborate on six new design principles for AI
A unique collaboration between ASU faculty and technologists from the university’s AI Acceleration team emerged to explore the gap between disruptive technology and ethical considerations. Together, they set out to create a set of guiding principles to support principled decision-making. The faculty-led group – known as the ASU Faculty Ethics Committee for AI Technology – has met several times over the past 18 months to ask questions, follow technical advances in AI, and collaborate on the unique opportunities and challenges ahead.
AI learning strategist spearheads AI solutions
Educator and AI Learning Strategist Jennifer Werner combines her expertise in elementary education, educational technology, and artificial intelligence to help bridge the digital divide. Although she has transitioned out of a traditional classroom role, Jennifer now leads the development of AI-driven solutions aimed at enhancing the student experience across the enterprise, advancing ASU's mission to empower learners with cutting-edge technology.
2. Digital transformation
Teaming up to support digital transformation
Behind the learning innovations and groundbreaking research for which ASU is recognized lies a set of foundational technology services that help drive forward operations requiring scale, security, and agility. In collaboration with ASU's Business and Finance, teams from ASU Enterprise Technology supported the university's transition to Workday — the all-in-one finance, human resources and payroll system.
5 insights on the future of digital credentials
This year, ASU’s Trusted Learner Network (TLN) traded the desert landscapes for the mountain views of Boulder, Colorado, to host its sixth annual TLN Unconference at CU Boulder’s Badge Summit. Over 150 educators, technologists, workforce development experts, badging engineers and more came together on Monday, July 21, to kick off the Badge Summit. In addition to sharing some of the latest TLN accomplishments, the group gathered to surface the most urgent questions influencing the future of digital credentialing.
3. Campus-to-community
ASU students lead in AI development for local police department
Coming soon, the police department in Chandler will have an all-new traffic reporting web portal, thanks to a collaboration with ASU’s Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Center, powered by AWS. Known as the AI-CIC, the partnership between ASU and AWS expands innovation from campus to community by collaborating with local organizations, such as the Chandler Police Department, to advance the use of AI in the public sector.
Upskilling program helps to bridge education to employment pathways for students
Todd Simmons, the director of network platforms at ASU Enterprise Technology, is working with 10 ASU students across undergraduate and graduate levels to instruct a new certification program offered at ASU. The year-long Artista Upskilling Program – now in its second cohort – is unique to ASU and demonstrates the university’s commitment to working with industry leaders to provide opportunities that bridge education and employment.
4. Partnerships to fuel innovation
ASU student graphics light up the jumbotron
For ASU senior Tiffany McClellan, the graphic designs used on ASU’s jumbotron feel like a major accomplishment and culmination of her education journey at ASU so far.
McClellan is studying graphic information technology at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering on the university’s Polytechnic campus. ASU’s jumbotron graphics – which included the dance cam, selfie cam and prize celebrations – were designed over the summer through McClellan’s internship with Adobe, a global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. McClellan has been able to access Adobe’s suite of creative tools for free since starting her college experience, thanks to the university’s collaboration with Adobe.
ASU students create data science AI tutors
“Why are students less interested in learning?” This problem statement was presented by team M^6 at the AI Accelerated Spark Challenge, sponsored by NVIDIA, TiE Phoenix and AZNext. This all-women team, composed of graduate students Darlene La Mere, Neha Tiwari, Pooja Pal, Rachel Garcia, and Sai Sudha Piratla, presented an AI tutoring solution that earned them first place. While they tackled their problem statement on learning, they found that they learned a lot themselves, and that the experience better prepared them for their various career projections.