The future of work at UCSB! After an application process, we have selected 300 innovative employees for an exclusive one-year pilot of Google AI Pro for Education. They will explore the power of AI and help shape its role on our campus.
Google AI Pro includes advanced AI capabilities designed to enhance productivity, creativity, and collaboration within an educational context. This version provides significant advantages over the version of Gemini that we currently offer to all non-student employees.
Why Google AI Pro?
Advanced AI Capabilities
Access to Google's most capable AI models, providing more sophisticated responses, deeper insights, and greater accuracy in various tasks.
Enhanced Productivity
Streamlined workflows and automation of routine tasks, freeing up time for more complex and strategic work in teaching, research, and administration.
Improved Content Generation
Creation of high-quality drafts for emails, documents, presentations, and other content, tailored to specific needs and tones.
Data Analysis and Summarization
Efficient processing and summarization of large datasets and documents, facilitating quicker understanding and decision-making.
Secure and Reliable Environment
Designed with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls, ensuring institutional data is protected and used responsibly.
Integration with Google Workspace
Seamless integration with familiar tools like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail, making it easy to incorporate AI into existing workflows.
- Expanded Model Access (Premium models like Gemini 2.5)
- Advanced Contextual Understanding (Limited)
- Multimodal Input and Output (Text, Images, Code, etc.)
- Seamless and Comprehensive Workspace Integration
- Meeting Enhancements (like note taking in Google Meet)
- Gemini App with 2.5 Pro
- NotebookLM: 5x more audio overviews, queries, notebooks, and sources.
- Gemini in Workspace apps: "Help me write" (Docs, Gmail), Enhanced Smart Fill (Sheets), "Help me visualize" (Slides).
- Gems: Create and use custom AI experts.
- Deep Research: Expanded limits for in-depth reports.
- Video Generation: Limited access to Veo 3 Fast
- Market leading Image generation (Nano Banana)
- Audio and Video Overviews
- Data is not used to train AI models, human-reviewed, or shared with other organizations.
- Enterprise-grade data protection is provided under Google Workspace for Education terms.
- Data loss prevention for Gmail, Drive, and Chat.
- Privacy hub (FAQ)
- Google Workspace: Deep integration across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Forms, and Meet.
- NotebookLM: Direct integration for analyzing uploaded documents.
- Access on web and mobile
- Gemini LTI with Canvas
Frequently Asked Questions
All faculty, staff and researchers are eligible for this program. Students and graduate students are not eligible.
Selected participants must agree to complete a brief onboarding module and participate in 2-3 short feedback surveys to help evaluate the success of this pilot.
- Deep Research: Generate comprehensive reports and summaries from hundreds of websites.
- Learning & Exploration: Use NotebookLM with expanded limits to analyze and create materials from uploaded documents.
- Creative Assistance: Generate images and video clips with limited access to Veo 3 Fast.
- Proactive Security: AI-enhanced data loss prevention.
- Coding Support: Access to the Jules coding agent with higher limits.
- Task Management: Automate web workflows with Project Mariner.