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UC Systemwide Faculty AI Survey

From April 29 to May 23, 2025, UCOP partnered with Tritonlytics to conduct the inaugural UC Systemwide Faculty AI Survey, a first-of-its-kind effort to understand how artificial intelligence is shaping teaching, research, and campus life across the UC system.

Background

The confidential survey was organized into three main sections: Academic and Research Usage, Teaching Usage, and Administrative/Institutional Perspectives, with an additional demographic block to enable subgroup analysis. This design provides a comprehensive understanding of how faculty currently engage with AI tools, their concerns, and their perspectives on future adoption.

Goals:

  1. Assess the current level of AI adoption and awareness among faculty.

  2. Determine the types of AI training and support that would be most beneficial to faculty across various disciplines.

  3. Gather faculty perspectives on the future applications of AI in their respective fields.

  4. Understand faculty expectations regarding AI literacy for students.

  5. Explore faculty perspectives on critical issues such as originality, intellectual property, and responsible AI use.

  6. Analyze how responses differ across disciplines to identify specific needs and opportunities.

 Highlights

  • Inclusive by design: A census-based approach invited all UC faculty to participate – ensuring every voice had the opportunity to be represented, rather than limiting input through selective sampling.
    • Ladder-rank and equivalent/Senate Faculty
    • Lecturers, Instructors, Adjunct Faculty
    • Post Doctoral Research Fellows
    • Clinical Faculty
    • PhD Students (Graduate Teaching or Graduate Research Assistants)
    • National Labs (Lawrence Lab only)
    • Visiting Scholars, Professors, Fellows, etc.
  • Statistically robust: 6,364 responded to the survey, yielding a ±3% margin of error, well within accepted reliability standards.
  • Exploratory (not predictive): Designed to establish a baseline understanding of faculty perspectives on AI across the UC system – to inform future strategy and next-phase research.

UC San Diego Results

UCSD achieved a total of 796 survey responses.  View the results infographic (PDF).

For questions about the survey or this report, please contact Tritonlytics at tritonlytics@ucsd.edu. 

UCSD Faculty AI Survey Infographic