AI
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Beyond Decorative: Chicanx & Latinx Communities as AI Prompts
- Generative AI often flattens Chicanx and Latinx identities into narrow stereotypes, erases diverse populations, and commercializes sacred traditions like Day of the Dead Ofrendas. Meanwhile, algorithms frequently censor social justice content. To counter this, presenters advocate for critical AI literacy, ethical tech development, and community-grounded pedagogical practices in higher education. Posted January 30, 2026
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Designing Your Syllabus Al Policy: A Cross-Disciplinary Workshop
- Marc Goodman’s workshop guides educators in crafting discipline-specific syllabus AI policies. Posted January 30, 2026
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Leveraging a Framework for Effective & Equitable Teaching in an Al World
- Biology Instructor Josephine Pino explores how generative AI impacts flipped classrooms and course design. Posted January 30, 2026
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Beyond Bias: What Every Student Needs to Know About Al
- In this presentation, CIS Department Chair Marc Goodman examines how AI engineering, tokenization, and engagement-driven architectures shape model accuracy. Moving beyond basic data bias, he breaks down hallucinations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and reinforcement learning. Goodman reveals why chatbots prioritize persuasion over objective truth and shares practical strategies to teach critical AI fact-checking skills. Posted January 30, 2026
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Will Al Elevate Student Achievement and Equity or Will Poorly Executed Al Drive Poorer Outcomes and Wider Academic Gaps?
- In an interactive roundtable, Portland Community College presenters explore how AI impacts student achievement, equity, and practice. Treating AI as a socio-technical issue, PCC rejects automated proctoring and plagiarism detection to avoid algorithmic bias. The session emphasizes "backstage learning"—valuing process over final products—alongside compassionate human care teams, data privacy, and ethical institutional governance. Posted January 30, 2026
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Al and Copyright: Legal Realities and Ethical Questions
- Cascade Faculty Librarian Rachel Bridgewater examines the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. Posted January 30, 2026
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Higher (order) Education: The Role of Colleges in Teaching the Cyborg Student
- As AI evolves into reasoning agents, higher education must reframe technology from an external threat to an extension of student cognition. While AI simplifies synthesis, it risks superficial "informational collages." Consequently, colleges must shift focus toward teaching epistemic hygiene, metacognition, source validation, and complex project design rather than policing tool usage. Posted January 30, 2026
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AI for the Educators: Module 1: Practical Skills in Crafting Effective Prompts
- This interactive workshop equips higher education faculty with essential prompt engineering skills to streamline teaching workflows and enhance productivity. Educators will learn foundational and advanced techniques—including persona definition, chain-of-thought reasoning, and setting temperature parameters—while gaining hands-on practice with tools like Google Gemini, custom Google Gems, and NotebookLM to create study guides and course materials. Posted September 11, 2025
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AI for the Educators: Module 2: AI for Lesson Planning & Content Creation
- In this workshop, Reza Rahman demonstrates how faculty can use Google Gemini to enhance lesson planning and content creation. Instructors learn to draft tailored learning objectives, refine content in the Canvas workspace, generate interactive quizzes, and design AI-resistant assignments. The session also covers building custom Gemini Gems to automate repetitive instructional tasks efficiently. Posted September 11, 2025
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AI for the Educators: Module 3: AI for Administrative Tasks & Personalized Learning
- Discover how educators can leverage AI tools like Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude to streamline administrative tasks and personalize student learning. Posted September 11, 2025