Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts...

Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium

1:00pm EDT

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

1:30pm EDT

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

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 Shortcut to Thought Partner: Training Liberal Arts Students to Collaborate With AI Blaustein 210Karen Harpp • Ahmad Khazaee

3:55pm EDT

Cultivating Judgment Through Guided Experience: A Human-Centered Approach to AI Literacy Blaustein 210Sawa Kurotani

4:40pm EDT

Student Experiences: DavisAI Summer Research Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)

10:20am EDT

Beyond Summaries: Reclaiming Reading in an AI-mediated world Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Jaya Kannan • Kristina Reardon

10:50am EDT

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

11:30am EDT

Publishing at the Speed of AI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Patrick Dempsey • Adam Pryor

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

1:30pm EDT

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

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

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