keynote, breakout · 90 min
Trust Them. Design Better. Rethinking the College Classroom for Today’s Students
Surveillance is the job of security officers, not faculty. Students need learning environments designed around trust, curiosity, creativity, meaningful challenge, and better evidence of learning.
- Explain how development in executive functioning, judgment, and self-regulation during young adulthood can inform expectations for college students.
- Examine how surveillance-heavy approaches to academic integrity can affect trust, motivation, and the student-faculty relationship.
- Identify classroom practices that support curiosity, creativity, autonomy, and meaningful intellectual risk-taking.
- Differentiate between policing student behavior and designing learning environments that make authentic engagement more likely.
Student trustclassroom redesigncuriositycreativityyoung adult development
keynote, workshop, breakout · 90 min
You Can’t Govern What You Don’t Understand: Building AI Literacy Across an Institution
Create a shared foundation of AI understanding so faculty, staff, and leaders can make better decisions about use, risk, policy, and strategy.
- Explain why uneven AI literacy creates challenges for governance and institutional decision-making.
- Identify different levels of AI knowledge needed by faculty, staff, leaders, and technical professionals.
- Develop strategies for creating a shared institutional baseline of AI understanding.
- Connect AI literacy efforts with governance, policy, professional development, and responsible use.
AI literacyAI governancefaculty developmentstaff developmentinstitutional leadership
keynote, breakout · 60 min
The Center Has to Matter: Reimagining Teaching and Learning Centers as Strategic Institutional Partners
Move teaching and learning centers from the margins of institutional life into meaningful partnership with academic strategy and faculty success.
- Identify ways teaching and learning centers can contribute to institutional priorities beyond traditional programming.
- Explain how strategic alignment can increase the visibility and impact of faculty development work.
- Recognize opportunities to connect teaching center services with academic leadership, assessment, accreditation, and innovation.
- Develop strategies for demonstrating institutional value and building stronger partnerships.
Teaching and learning centersfaculty developmentacademic leadershipinstitutional strategydigital learning
keynote, breakout · 60 min
Beyond the Online Course: Building an Institutional Ecosystem for Digital Learning Quality
Digital learning quality depends on far more than the design of an individual online course.
- Identify institutional systems that influence digital learning quality beyond the individual course.
- Explain the roles of instructional design, accessibility, faculty development, technology, and student support.
- Recognize gaps that can undermine consistency and quality across digital learning environments.
- Develop strategies for strengthening institutional coordination around digital learning.
Digital learningonline educationinstructional designaccessibilityquality assurance
keynote, breakout · 60 min
Leading Change Without Losing the People Doing the Work
Lead necessary change with clarity, accountability, and empathy while keeping the people responsible for implementation engaged.
- Identify common causes of resistance, disengagement, and change fatigue.
- Differentiate between legitimate implementation concerns and resistance to necessary change.
- Apply communication strategies that improve clarity, trust, and accountability.
- Develop approaches for supporting employees through change without abandoning organizational expectations.
Leadershipchange managementcommunicationemotional intelligenceaccountability
keynote, workshop, breakout · 90 min
Stop Adding. Start Aligning: Designing Institutional Work That Serves More Than One Goal
Reduce institutional overload by designing initiatives that advance multiple faculty, program, accreditation, and strategic goals at the same time.
- Identify areas where institutional priorities and faculty responsibilities unnecessarily duplicate effort.
- Recognize opportunities to align accreditation, assessment, faculty development, evaluation, and strategic initiatives.
- Design activities and processes that produce value across multiple institutional goals.
- Develop strategies for reducing initiative fatigue through intentional alignment and integration.
Strategic alignmentinstitutional effectivenessfaculty developmentaccreditationassessment
keynote, workshop, breakout · 90 min
From Initiative Fatigue to Institutional Change: How to Make Big Ideas Actually Stick
Move institutional priorities from launch announcements and pilot projects to meaningful, sustainable change.
- Identify common reasons institutional initiatives lose momentum after launch.
- Explain how leadership, incentives, communication, and infrastructure influence implementation.
- Recognize strategies for embedding new priorities into existing institutional systems and practices.
- Develop approaches for reducing initiative fatigue while maintaining accountability and progress.
Institutional changechange managementstrategic planningimplementationfaculty engagement
keynote, breakout · 60 min
The Human Work AI Can’t Do: Judgment, Trust, and Leadership in an Automated World
Explore the human capabilities that become more important - not less - as AI takes on more routine cognitive work.
- Identify human capabilities that remain critical as AI assumes more routine cognitive tasks.
- Explain why judgment, context, trust, and accountability cannot be fully delegated to AI systems.
- Evaluate where AI can appropriately augment professional work and where human responsibility must remain primary.
- Identify strategies for strengthening human-centered professional practice in technology-rich environments.
Artificial intelligencehuman judgmenttrustleadershipprofessional responsibility
keynote, workshop, breakout · 90 min
Emotional Intelligence at Work: Communicating Clearly, Managing Yourself, and Working Better with Others
A practical session on using emotional intelligence to communicate more effectively, navigate differences, manage reactions, and strengthen workplace relationships from a leadership and experience perspective.
- Explain how emotional intelligence influences communication, decision-making, and workplace relationships.
- Identify personal reactions and communication habits that can strengthen or undermine professional interactions.
- Apply strategies for communicating clearly and directly while maintaining empathy and professionalism.
- Use emotional intelligence to navigate differing work styles, expectations, and perspectives.
Emotional intelligenceworkplace communicationself-awarenessself-managementempathy
Keynote, Breakout · 90 min
You Don't Have to Love It: Working Effectively with AI and Whatever Comes Next
A practical session on why professionals do not have to embrace every disruption enthusiastically - but do have to understand it, evaluate it, and work with it appropriately.
- Explain why professional relevance increasingly depends on the ability to understand and respond to technological and organizational disruption.
- Differentiate between thoughtful adoption, informed resistance, and simple avoidance of emerging technologies.
- Evaluate when AI and other disruptive technologies appropriately support professional practice and when human judgment should remain primary.
- Identify strategies for building ongoing professional adaptability rather than reacting to each new technology individually.
Artificial intelligenceprofessional adaptabilitydisruptionemerging technologyfuture of work
Keynote, Breakout, Workshop · 90 min
One Investment, Multiple Outcomes: Designing Faculty Development That Advances Both People and Institutions
Design professional development that helps faculty succeed in evaluation and promotion while simultaneously advancing institutional priorities.
- Identify opportunities to align faculty professional development with institutional strategic priorities, accreditation expectations, and academic initiatives.
- Examine how professional development can intentionally support faculty evaluation, annual review, promotion, tenure, and other measures of professional growth.
- Design development activities that allow a single faculty investment to contribute to multiple individual, programmatic, and institutional outcomes.
- Identify strategies for reducing initiative fatigue by connecting existing expectations rather than continually adding new ones.
Faculty developmentfaculty evaluationpromotion and tenureinstitutional strategyprofessional growth
Keynote, Breakout · 60 min
All Learning Is Digital Learning
Rethink digital learning as the infrastructure of contemporary education rather than a synonym for online courses.
- Explain why digital learning extends beyond fully online education.
- Identify ways technology shapes student learning across instructional modalities.
- Examine institutional responsibilities related to accessibility, quality, and faculty support.
- Identify strategies for creating more coherent digital learning experiences for students.
Digital learningonline educationcourse qualityaccessibilitystudent experience
Keynote, workshop, breakout · 90 min
AI in Health Professions: Innovation with Consequences
Examine the opportunities and responsibilities created by AI across health professions education and clinical practice.
- Identify current and emerging applications of AI across healthcare and health professions education.
- Explain major ethical and professional risks associated with clinical AI use.
- Evaluate AI applications through the lenses of accuracy, bias, privacy, and human oversight.
- Identify competencies students need to use AI responsibly in professional practice.
Health professions educationclinical AIpatient caredocumentationethics
keynote, breakout · 60 min
Responsible AI Is More Than a Policy
Move responsible AI from a policy document to an operational system of governance, infrastructure, accountability, and practice.
- Identify the organizational components required for responsible AI implementation.
- Explain why AI policy alone cannot adequately manage institutional risk.
- Recognize connections among governance, procurement, cybersecurity, privacy, accessibility, and training.
- Identify practical steps for strengthening organizational AI governance.
Responsible AIAI governanceethicsprivacycybersecurity
keynote, breakout · 60 min
When AI Can Act: Governance for the Agentic AI Era
What changes when AI moves from generating content to taking actions inside organizational systems?
- Differentiate between generative AI tools and agentic AI systems.
- Identify risks associated with allowing AI systems to take organizational actions.
- Explain the importance of permissions, monitoring, and human oversight in agentic systems.
- Identify governance questions organizations should address before deploying AI agents.
Agentic AIAI governancecybersecuritypermissionshuman oversight
keynote, breakout · 60 min
Preparing Graduates for Work Changing While We Teach It
Explore how higher education can prepare students for professions being transformed faster than traditional curriculum cycles can respond.
- Identify ways emerging technologies are changing expectations for college graduates.
- Differentiate between durable competencies and rapidly changing technical skills.
- Describe strategies for connecting curriculum development with evolving workforce needs.
- Identify opportunities for employer engagement and applied learning.
Future of workworkforce readinessAIautomationcurriculum innovation
keynote, workshop, breakout · 90 min
AI in Every Program: Moving from Individual Experimentation to Institutional Strategy
Move AI education from isolated faculty experimentation to intentional, program-level preparation for every graduate.
- Describe a developmental model for integrating AI learning across academic programs.
- Identify discipline-specific AI knowledge and skills students may need before graduation.
- Apply curriculum-mapping strategies to locate opportunities and gaps in AI preparation.
- Develop approaches for scaling AI integration beyond individual courses or faculty champions.
Curriculum transformationAI literacyprogram designcurriculum mappingworkforce readiness
keynote, breakout · 60 min
Practical AI Without the Hype for Leaders
A practical executive-level introduction to the AI decisions organizations need to make now - without requiring leaders to become technologists.
- Explain the capabilities and limitations of contemporary generative and agentic AI systems.
- Identify major strategic opportunities and organizational risks associated with AI adoption.
- Recognize governance, security, workforce, and procurement questions leaders should address.
- Develop priorities for responsible organizational AI adoption.
AI strategyexecutive leadershipgenerative AIagentic AIgovernance
keynote, breakout · 60 min
Is it Cheating? Designing Learning in a World with AI
Rethink academic integrity by designing learning for a world in which AI is already part of how students live and work.
- Explain how generative AI is changing traditional assumptions about academic integrity and assessment.
- Distinguish between AI use that supports learning and AI use that bypasses learning.
- Identify strategies for designing assessments that emphasize meaningful evidence of student learning.
- Develop clearer expectations for appropriate and transparent student AI use.
Generative AIacademic integrityassessmentstudent learningAI literacy
breakout · 90 min
Good Teaching at Scale: Quality, Connection, and Faculty Work in Large Courses
Examine how thoughtful design, support, and technology can preserve quality as course enrollment grows.
- dentify course elements that require redesign when enrollment increases substantially.
- Differentiate between scalable instructional practices and activities that require targeted human interaction.
- Evaluate the appropriate roles of automation, instructional support, and faculty judgment in large courses.
- Develop strategies for maintaining quality, communication, and student support at scale.
Large coursescourse designdigital learningfaculty workloadinstructional support
Workshop, Breakout · 90 min
Teaching While the World Morphs: AI for Faculty
Help faculty move beyond AI anxiety and experimentation toward informed, purposeful, and responsible use.
- Explain foundational capabilities and limitations of generative AI.
- Identify responsible AI applications for teaching and academic work.
- Evaluate common concerns related to accuracy, privacy, integrity, and overreliance.
- Develop practical next steps for increasing personal AI fluency.
Faculty developmentgenerative AIAI literacyteaching innovationacademic integrity
Workshop, Breakout · 90 min
Future Today: Integrating Generative AI through Purposeful Course Design
A course-design learning lab for integrating generative AI because it advances learning - not simply because the technology exists.
- Evaluate potential AI uses based on course and program learning outcomes.
- Identify instructional activities where AI can meaningfully support student learning.
- Align AI expectations with assessment and academic integrity decisions.
- Develop at least one purposeful AI-integrated course activity or assessment.
Course designgenerative AIinstructional designassessmentteaching strategies
Workshop · 90 min
Practical AI You Can Actually Use
A hands-on session focused on responsible AI workflows participants can put into practice immediately.
- Identify practical AI workflows relevant to everyday professional responsibilities.
- Apply effective prompting and iterative techniques to improve AI-generated outputs.
- Evaluate AI outputs for accuracy, appropriateness, and risk.
- Distinguish tasks appropriate for AI assistance from those requiring direct human responsibility.
Applied AIproductivitypromptinggenerative AIworkflow improvement
Workshop, Breakout · 90 min
Testing What Matters: Assessment in the Age of Generative AI
Redesign assessment around what students truly need to know, demonstrate, and defend when AI can generate increasingly sophisticated work.
- Identify assessment practices that are particularly vulnerable to inappropriate AI substitution.
- Differentiate between AI-inclusive, AI-constrained, and AI-independent assessment strategies.
- Evaluate whether an assessment provides meaningful evidence of the intended learning outcome.
- Apply practical strategies to strengthen authenticity, validity, and academic integrity.
Assessmentgenerative AIacademic integrityauthentic assessmenttest security
