Strategies for Acquiring Access to Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services and Systems, a report based on CNI Executive Roundtables held in October 2024 and March 2025 is now available at: https://doi.org/10.56561/JQFD9900
The exploratory roundtable discussions brought together senior leaders from more than 20 member organizations to examine how institutions are selecting, acquiring, financing, and governing access to generative AI. Rather than attempting to generalize about higher education as a whole, the report documents a snapshot of institutional thinking at a moment of rapid change.
The roundtables revealed significant variation in institutional approaches, from enterprise agreements with commercial providers, to locally hosted models, to shared platforms that enable managed experimentation with multiple large language models.
Thank you to the representatives who participated in the discussions and were beyond generous with their experiences and perspectives. We apologize for the delay in publication, which was complicated by CNI’s leadership transition.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with thoughts or questions; there remains much to explore here as a community.
Sincerely,
Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director
