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Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium

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7:30am EDT

Breakfast at Harris Harris Dining Hall

9:00am EDT

Opening Session Crozier-Williams 1962 Room

9:30am EDT

Opening Plenary — The Year of an Awakening in the Liberal Arts Crozier-Williams 1962 RoomGeorge Cusack • Eric Chown • Jaya Kannan • Susan Purrington • Lori Robbins

10:45am EDT

Harold F. Wiley Keynote Presentation Crozier-Williams 1962 RoomDr. Jon Ippolito

12:00pm EDT

Lunch at Harris Harris Dining Hall

1:00pm EDT

AI Is Not Transforming Education—We Are Using It to Preserve It Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Chris Bernard The Design Problem of AI Literacy: Teaching Thinking When Answers Are Instant Blaustein 210Benjamin Breyer The Great AIqualizer: How Small Liberal Arts Colleges Can Use AI to Rethink Administrative Work, Faculty Support, and Student Success Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Manuel Lopez AI Play Lab Shain Library Visualization Wall (Lower level) Lightning Talks - AI Literacy and What Students Learn Shain Library Chu Room (First floor) Managing AI Burnout: Self Care for Faculty and Librarians Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Erin Hasley • Irene McGarrity

1:10pm EDT

Critical from the Start: A Coordinated AI Literacy Model for the First-Year Liberal Arts Seminar Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Amy Collier • Sarah Lohnes Watulak

1:30pm EDT

What Should Students Learn? Navigating the Paradox of AI in Liberal Arts Education Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Javkhlan Batsaikhan Building the AI Ready Campus Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)JC Bonilla Is this AI?: Fostering Critical AI Media Literacy Blaustein 210Melanie Hibbert

2:15pm EDT

AI and Ethics: Two Ideas, One Course Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Darcy Otto Say “Yes” to the Mess: Critical Writing Process Reflection in the Age of GenAI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Noah Wason Element451 AI Play Lab Shain Library Visualization Wall (Lower level) Academic Integrity and the Honor Code Blaustein 208Sarah Cardwell From Experimentation to Governance: How AI Communities of Practice Shape Institutional AI Adoption Blaustein 203Darice Corey Redefining the Honor Code for the Generative Era Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Alyson Snowe

2:45pm EDT

Reducing LLM Drift Using Explicit Ethical and Policy-Based Principles Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Timothy James Becker • Miriam Clemente The Imagined Author in the Age of AI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Brenda Hardin Abbott

3:25pm EDT

From Initiative to Institutional Collaborative Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Jacob Heil From Shortcut to Thought Partner: Training Liberal Arts Students to Collaborate With AI Blaustein 210Karen Harpp • Ahmad Khazaee Lightning Talks - Institutional Programs and Equity Shain Library Chu Room (First floor) Designing the Future of AI: Using Design Thinking to Engage Students as Co-Creators of Institutional AI Strategy Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Richard Russell • Josh Wagner The AI-Native Classroom: Early Lessons from a Pilot in my Class at Carnegie Mellon Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)David Miller

3:30pm EDT

AI Play Lab Shain Library Visualization Wall (Lower level)

3:35pm EDT

Developing an “AI and the Liberal Arts” Academic Certificate Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Willie Wilson

3:45pm EDT

AI and the Digital Divide: A New Era of Educational Inequity Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Atousa Kaviani

3:55pm EDT

The Other Side of the Desk: Student Perceptions of Faculty AI Use in the Liberal Arts Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Lauren Howard • Willie Wilson Cultivating Judgment Through Guided Experience: A Human-Centered Approach to AI Literacy Blaustein 210Sawa Kurotani

4:40pm EDT

Pop-up Book Club — Academic Integrity in the Age of AI (Session 1 of 2) Blaustein 203Amy Collier • Sarah Lohnes Watulak Student Experiences: DavisAI Summer Research Shain Library Chu Room (First floor) Can AI Play? Teaching French Video Games and Critical AI Literacy in the Language Classroom Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Emmanuel Buzay The Sacred and The Synthetic: Cultivating Higher-Order Thinking and Explorative Inquiry in the AI-Era Liberal Arts Classroom Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Naomi Jennifer Moore

5:15pm EDT

Welcome Cocktail Reception Humphrey's (Crozier-Williams, Second floor)

6:15pm EDT

Welcome Dinner Crozier-Williams 1962 Room