Google Gemini Pro is available for faculty and staff beginning week of June 15

Purdue University will begin the next phase of its partnership with Google, providing Google Gemini Pro licenses to interested faculty and staff.

The university is working on an onboarding system to release licenses as they become available, with the first licenses set to be provisioned as early as next week, beginning June 15. Faculty and staff who have already requested access will receive email communication in the coming weeks with further instructions when their licenses have been activated.

To request a license, please complete the Request Enterprise AI Access form.

Google Gemini Pro is Google’s advanced AI platform for analyzing information, generating content and supporting complex workflows. Its multimodal capabilities allow it to work across text, code, images, audio and video, making it applicable to teaching, research and administrative use cases.

When using Gemini Pro through Purdue, prompts and data are private. The university does not monitor or log activity for compliance or surveillance purposes. Purdue only collects basic, anonymized system data to help troubleshoot technical issues and keep the service running smoothly.

Per Purdue policy, sensitive and restricted data should not be used with Gemini Pro. For additional information, please review Purdue’s AI Use Policy.

Google AI Professional Certificate

In May, Purdue announced that faculty and staff at the West Lafayette and Indianapolis locations have free access to the Google AI Professional Certificate program. The seven-course, voluntary program focuses on the fundamentals of AI and how to apply AI to six domains: brainstorming and planning; research and insights; writing and communicating; content creation; data analysis; and app building.

Modules can be completed at an individual pace in as little as one to three hours per course. Participants will earn a certificate of completion following each course. Upon completion of all seven courses, they will earn the Google AI Professional Certificate. These credentials can be added to an individual’s SuccessFactors profile, LinkedIn, résumé or CV.

Visit the registration page and follow the prompts. Additional resources are available here.