Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts...

Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium

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

7:30am EDT

Breakfast at Harris Harris Dining Hall

9:00am EDT

The Great AI Debate Crozier-Williams 1962 RoomAnand Rao • ScholarStack AI

10:20am EDT

Beyond Summaries: Reclaiming Reading in an AI-mediated world Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Jaya Kannan • Kristina Reardon How Can We Thoughtfully Respond to AI? Cultivating a Critical AI Literacy in the Writing Classroom Blaustein 203Noah Wason The Engineer's Paradox: Why Building AI Systems Made Me Argue Harder for the Liberal Arts Blaustein 208Chaitanya Gunupudi “Under Review – Liberal Arts Edition”: Using a Table Top Role-Playing Game for AI Literacy Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Gerard Gadigian • Lori Looney • Susan Purrington When the Product Is No Longer Proof: Ungrading, AI, and the Human Future of Learning Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Divonna Stebick

10:30am EDT

AI Play Lab Shain Library Visualization Wall (Lower level)

10:50am EDT

Literature as Information Control: How Understanding Narrative Increases AI Literacy Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Ryan Crawford

11:30am EDT

Pop-up Book Club — Academic Integrity in the Age of AI (Session 2 of 2) Blaustein 203Amy Collier • Sarah Lohnes Watulak Publishing at the Speed of AI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Patrick Dempsey • Adam Pryor Beyond “AI Police”: Equitable Oral Assessment Design Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Meredith Gilman Take My Hand and Tell Me What You See: AI and Museum Accessibility Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Prakhar Agrawal • Andres Fernandez • Douglas Hall • Miloslava Hruba

12:00pm EDT

Lunch at Harris Harris Dining Hall

1:00pm EDT

A Practical Framework for Assessing AI Risk and Readiness in Divisions, Centers, Programs, and Departments Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Nakia Hamlett-Nunes Beyond the Blue Book: AI Simulations and the New Measure of Liberal Arts Learning Blaustein 210Jeanine DeFalco Lightning Talks - Critical & Rhetorical Perspectives Shain Library Chu Room (First floor) Grappling with Pedagogical Practice that Centers the Human Element — in the Context of AI Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Liz Knauer • Karyn Zieve

1:10pm EDT

Scaffolding Rhetorical Authority through Intentional Failure Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Jeffrey L. Jackson

1:20pm EDT

Tools of One's Own: Portable Prompting and the Iterative Craft of Professional Identity Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Ben Harwood

1:30pm EDT

Adding Nuance to Student AI Refusal Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Theresa Law • Annabel Rothschild Awaken the Liberal Arts: Responsible AI Ecosystem by Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Mingwei Zhu Vibe Coding the Liberal Arts: From Plain Language to Playable Simulation Blaustein 210Florencia Ines Gabriele

2:15pm EDT

A Scalable AI Course Redesign Protocol Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Mike Honsberger Plot Twist: Unexpected Findings from Student AI Use at Denison Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Heath Hase • Lori Robbins For the Record, How Do We Record (Using AI)? Ethical Questions Regarding the Use of AI Technology to Retain Information Blaustein 203Dr. Rachel Cockrell • Elise McCauley • Marcia Shottenkirk The Evidence I Wish I Had: Reframing the Detection Spiral Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Melissa Forbes

2:45pm EDT

A Capabilities-Based Approach to Figuring Out Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Cade Puzon Understanding and Leveraging Student Ambivalence to AI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)George Cusack

3:30pm EDT

Developing an AI-Focused Faculty Learning Community (FLC) Blaustein 210Elisabeth Buzay The Student Voice: Creating an AI Student Council Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Alexis Ramsey-Tobienne What If We Trusted Them? Student-Led AI Research as Liberal Arts Pedagogy — Lessons from the LAB Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Stephanie Kufner Designing Cross-Departmental AI Initiatives for Your Campus Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Jean Ferguson • Travis Grandy

4:00pm EDT

ChatGBC: An All-Campus, Secure, Affordable(?) OpenWebUI/OpenRouter-Based AI Hub Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Eric Remy Student Involvement in AI Curriculum Development Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Willie Wilson The AI Culture Question: What Happens When One Department Decides to Lead? Blaustein 210Sarah Gobe

4:30pm EDT

Closing Session Crozier-Williams 1962 Room