Northeastern University has partnered with AI company Anthropic to provide Claude – a secure, enterprise-level generative AI platform – to all active students, faculty, and staff.
The Boston-based university has access to Claude for Education, a specialized version of Claude tailored for higher education institutions. In a press release, Northeastern said access to the platform “will accelerate the university’s plans to integrate AI into learning, teaching, research, and administrative operations across the global university system.”
Northeastern is Anthropic’s first university design partner. According to a separate press release from Anthropic, the partnership provides 50,000 students, faculty, and staff across 13 global campuses with access to Claude.
“We’re working with Northeastern University to build best practices for AI integration in higher education, new AI-powered education tools, and frameworks for responsible AI adoption in educational settings,” the company said.
Claude can assist students with various tasks, such as drafting literature reviews with proper citations or walking them through a calculus problem. The university encouraged students to use the tool to help them ace their finals by creating realistic study schedules based on exam dates or designing personalized chatbots to quiz them on course material.
It can also help faculty create class rubrics aligned to specific learning outcomes or help staff automate email responses to common inquiries.
Northeastern also acknowledged that generative AI “has limitations and using Claude comes with risks that require awareness and mitigation.” Therefore, the university provides requirements and guidelines for students, faculty, and staff to use Claude responsibly.
The university also noted that the Northeastern Office of Information Security comprehensively reviewed Anthropic’s security controls and determined they met university security standards to keep data safe.
