How can we help students critically evaluate the hype and fear surrounding AI—and make thoughtful choices? In this semester-long group, we’ll focus on human values and judgment while exploring essential AI literacy skills: ethical, rhetorical, and functional. Whether you are enthusiastic about AI use in your courses or prefer assignments that avoid or limit AI, you are welcome in this group. AI literacy matters to us all!

This group provides space for instructors to process and share the experience of teaching amid these turbulent, unpredictable, and tense times. In addition to sharing experiences and advice, we’ll explore how to focus on course goals while supporting students, setting boundaries, and managing our own needs. Whether you’re teaching directly engages with challenging topics, you’re wondering how world events might affect your classroom, or you just need a place to talk, this group can help support your teaching journey. 

Instructors working on writing projects while teaching often find it emotionally and logistically challenging to manage the workload and keep up motivation. It’s a lot to squeeze in! This group will explore resources, share tips, and reflect on experiences during one-hour sessions followed by optional writing time 4-7 times during the semester. Hybrid via Teams and in Howe Library.

What Makes Writing Meaningful offers practical advice and reflective strategies to help instructors design assignments that resonate with today’s students. Drawing on Michelle Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner’s years-long study of what makes writing assignments meaningful and motivating to students, this highly accessible book will give you much to consider for your teaching—join us!