Live September 2026
The Generative AI Teaching Lab
Xavier’s technology office has installation underway, and the building’s electrical capacity is being raised to carry it. Twenty seats, live in September.
’26 → ’27
2026 builds it. 2027 opens it.
Everything else on this site describes what The Loop is. This page is what it is going through. The Robinette Center for Innovation is being materially improved from the inside, and the building stays closed to outside groups until that work is done.
Underway
What is happening inside.
A lab going in, a mural taking shape, AI literacy already being taught. None of it public yet.
Painting targeted for September 2026
The mural
Cincinnati artist Matthew Grote is designing a full-scale mural for the Center’s corner along Dana Avenue. Concept studies are underway; painting is targeted for September. Meet the artist.
Running now
AI literacy for Xavier
Free certificate programs in responsible and effective AI, taught to Xavier faculty and staff first. We test on our own people before opening this to anyone else. See the certificate.
Then
What 2027 opens.
When the interior work is finished, the things this building was rebuilt for start.
2027
Public programs
Free and low-cost AI training for the wider community, including regional educators, prospective students, and families.
2027
Space for groups
Workshops, working sessions, and gatherings, in a building finally good enough to invite people into.
2027
The certificate, network-wide
Free access to Responsible and Effective AI opens across the Xavier network, past the faculty and staff testing it now.