Dartmouth College has rolled out a campuswide artificial intelligence (AI) initiative through a new partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving students, faculty, and staff access to Anthropic’s Claude for Education model and AWS’s Amazon Bedrock platform.
According to the announcement, the agreement will enable “access to an AI model that is … tailored specifically for academic environments.” In exchange, Dartmouth will help its partners understand how AI should be used in “teaching and research across the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and creative disciplines, as well as in co-curricular activities like career design.”
“This is more than a collaboration.” President Sian Leah Beilock said. “It’s the next chapter in a story that began at Dartmouth 70 years ago, as we ensure that the institution where the term AI was first introduced to the world will also show the world how to use it wisely in pursuit of knowledge.”
Dartmouth is the first Ivy League institution to adopt AI at an institutional scale.
The initiative includes tools for coursework, research, and student advising. Dartmouth’s Center for Career Design will use Claude to assist students with career exploration, job offer evaluation, and application materials, and AWS to help connect students with applied learning opportunities through its Skills to Jobs program. The partnership also supports student-led programs aimed at fostering responsible and ethical AI use.
The agreement also extends beyond classrooms.
Dartmouth plans to use Amazon Bedrock to develop AI applications for campus operations, with AWS teams providing support. Officials said the technology could streamline administrative processes and expand analytical capabilities, allowing staff to focus on work that requires human judgment.
Research applications across the college span climate modeling, polarization studies, cybersecurity, behavioral health, and precision medicine. Faculty working in these areas are expected to benefit from expanded access to advanced AI tools.
The collaboration includes security and privacy protections and is nonexclusive, adding Claude to Dartmouth’s current AI offerings, which include ChatGPT and Copilot.
Provost Santiago Schnell said the timing is critical as colleges reconsider the role of AI. “This partnership will prepare the next generation of leaders and deepen our understanding of both the potential and the limit of artificial intelligence in higher education,” he said. “AI should strengthen, not short-circuit, human judgment and genuine learning.”
