Faculty Development Day, Spring 2025

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent in academic settings, writing instructors face both challenges and opportunities in fostering authentic critical thinking skills. This interactive workshop explores how AI tools can be strategically integrated into composition courses to enhance rather than inhibit critical thinking development. Participants will examine strategies for using AI as a “thought partner” in prewriting, revision, and metacognitive reflection. Attendees will also practice designing AI-supported assignments that prompt deeper analytical engagement with texts, strengthen argumentation skills, and cultivate intellectual curiosity. AAC&U’s VALUE Rubric for assessing critical thinking skills will also be explored as a tool to help with these goals.

What do we need to consider as we infuse AI into the curriculum? This session examines the intersection of AI with different disciplines. Faculty will explore how appropriate use of AI can make our students career-ready.

AI is commonly avoided in academia and associated with cheating when tackling class assignments. Attendees will be challenged to explore opportunities to use AI in the classroom to support student’s future careers. This session will cover how AI is an assistant that should be taken advantage of, and if used correctly, further pushes students to succeed with learning outcomes.

This interactive workshop will introduce the medical school’s sandbox of AI projects. Participants will explore ways AI is being used to enhance learning environments, clinical practice, and research methodologies.

Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. While higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. These responses and realities create a challenging tension that high education must work to resolve. Drawing from the presenter’s new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), this presentation and discussion will detail the challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education. The core focus of this keynote will be on concrete approaches and strategies higher education can adopt, both within the classroom and across larger curricular structures, to best prepare students for the life that awaits them after graduation.

This interactive workshop will introduce the medical school’s sandbox of AI projects. Participants will explore ways AI is being used to enhance learning environments, clinical practice, and research methodologies.

Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. While higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. These responses and realities create a challenging tension that high education must work to resolve. Drawing from the presenter’s new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), this presentation and discussion will detail the challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education. The core focus of this keynote will be on concrete approaches and strategies higher education can adopt, both within the classroom and across larger curricular structures, to best prepare students for the life that awaits them after graduation.

Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. While higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. These responses and realities create a challenging tension that high education must work to resolve. Drawing from the presenter’s new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), this presentation and discussion will detail the challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education. The core focus of this keynote will be on concrete approaches and strategies higher education can adopt, both within the classroom and across larger curricular structures, to best prepare students for the life that awaits them after graduation.