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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g.,

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

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The hiring process should reflect this need to have the teaching philosophies of new staff align closely with its vision. It is no longer enough to look at only the traditional aspects of teaching — subject knowledge, interaction with students, organization, etc. How can sculpting occur? A blank radar graph.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g.,

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students.

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

Scholarly Teacher

Generative AI and Your Discipline After a sense of initial impressions, our guiding framework asks you to think broadly about your discipline and the skills students acquire in your program. As you think about your discipline relative to generative AI, consider: What fundamental skills do students need in your courses or disciplines?

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Making Memories on the First Day of Class

Faculty Focus

This latter component, the instructor’s engagement, may then “trickle down” to enhance their studentsengagement and ultimate learning (Saucier, Miller, Martens, & Jones, 2022). important and/or intriguing content and skills) and engaging activities and assignments. Renken, M.S. Saucier, D. Miller, S.

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