Syracuse University adopts Claude for Education
Syracuse University, the private research institution in New York, this week announced that it’s formed a partnership with Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, to provide students, faculty and staff with a version of the software designed for use in higher education.
“Expanding access to Claude for all members of our community is another step in making Syracuse University the most digitally connected campus in America,” Jeff Rubin, senior vice president and chief digital officer, said in a press release. “By equipping every student, faculty member and staff member with Claude, we’re not only fueling innovation, but also preparing our community to navigate, critique and co-create with AI in real-world contexts.”
The campuswide launch of Claude for Education is designed to provide users with improved usage limits, sharable projects for peer review, advanced capabilities such as the ability to process 500-page documents and access to academic tools such as the app’s “learning mode,” which is designed to guide students to learn new things.
Syracuse joins a number of other institutions to recently make similar offerings, from Anthropic or OpenAI. Indiana University administrators announced last month that, through a new partnership, they would provide the university’s 120,000 students with free access to ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s higher-education chatbot.
