Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium

This opening panel brings together AI leaders from small liberal arts colleges who first connected at the inaugural AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium and left with a shared conviction: that navigating AI in the liberal arts context requires ongoing collaboration across institutions. The panelists will reflect on the year since that first gathering. What has changed on their campuses? What differences do they see between SLACs and other types of institutions in their response to AI? What further opportunities for collaboration do they see between SLAC institutions? This session will set the tone for the symposium by grounding the day's conversations in lived institutional experience, honest reflection, and the power of a growing community of practice among liberal arts institutions.