Project Infuse is a collaborative initiative that seeks to democratize access to digital credentials in higher education. Designed to address equity gaps and institutional barriers, Infuse is advancing a secure, open, and interoperable infrastructure for Learning and Employment Records (LERs) that serves the public good. At its core, Infuse is about connection—linking students to opportunity, institutions to scalable solutions, and digital credentials to real-world value.
Vision
A trusted, open, interoperable infrastructure that democratizes access to digital credentials—supporting every learner's lifelong journey while reinforcing the role of higher education in driving equity and learning mobility.
Key Objectives
Facilitate learning mobility
Reduce financial & technical barriers
Expand access and agency
Enhance credential value
Align credentials with workforce needs
Foster innovation
Key Challenges
Despite major advancements in digital credentialing, millions of learners—especially those from under-resourced institutions or with "some college, no degree"—remain excluded from the systems designed to help them. Institutions, too, face challenges in issuing digital credentials at scale: cost, technological readiness, policy hurdles, and pedagogical constraints. Infuse addresses these challenges head-on by:
Promoting low-/no-cost public infrastructure for digital credentialing
Enriching credentials with inferred skills and career-aligned data
Deploying domain-specific AI to align learning with workforce needs
Providing a foundation for future-facing, learner-centered ecosystems
Tackling interoperability issues
Key Strategies
Infuse organizes its work around three core functions that support credential lifecycle integration and value:
Ingest: Integrating with existing Student Information Systems (SIS), PDFs, and CSVs to convert academic credentials into structured, digital formats. Infuse will also employ a universal data standard translator to enable interoperability between LER systems using open standards.
Infer: Using artificial intelligence to extract and infer skill-level information from academic data, allowing learners to generate skill narratives that better align with workforce needs. The initiative plans to deploy a domain-specific AI to further enrich credentials quality and relevance over time.
Issue: Empowering learners with access and control over their digital credentials through interoperable LER repositories and wallets. Infuse will enable low-cost, public-good wallet and repository solutions for institutions.