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Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values
Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values
For the 2026-27 academic year, we're exploring how colleges can align AI with liberal arts values. As artificial intelligence reshapes higher education, how can liberal arts institutions keep values like inquiry, community, lifelong learning, and agency central through the shift? Each webinar brings together panelists with a different perspective: faculty and staff, alumni, current students, and campus leadership. Each is followed by a LACET Chat where participants discuss the insights and questions the panel raised. Chats are not recorded.
Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values: Alumni Perspectives
Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values: Alumni Perspectives
Webinar | October 20, 2026
Alumni panelists discuss the liberal arts values that shaped them, how those values hold up in a world being shaped by AI, and what they would want their colleges to consider now.
Moderator: Nikki Weaver, Le Moyne College
Panelists: Mufaddal Ali, Colby College; Adrianna Ladd, Le Moyne College; Ashley Oldacre, Connecticut College; Meredith Tornabene, Le Moyne College; Debbie Urbanski, Carleton College
Register: https://conncoll-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hlz7gjwWTbe9XeYe7DwTnA#/registration
The first webinar of the 2026-27 series: Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values: Faculty and Staff Perspectives.
Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values: Faculty & Staff Perspectives
Aligning AI with Liberal Arts Values: Faculty & Staff Perspectives
Webinar | August 18, 2026
Panelists consider which liberal arts values matter most right now, and how they are drawing on those values to make decisions about AI in teaching and learning. Webinar held on August 18, 2026.
Moderator: Andrew Purrington, Trinity College
Panelists: George Cusack, Carleton College; James Truman, Trinity College; Summar West, Connecticut College; Willie Wilson, Franklin and Marshall College
Padlet Link: https://padlet.com/spurringt/aligning-ai-series-faculty-staff-perspectives-7c1cacryma2pb2v2
Earlier Webinars
Earlier Webinars
Who Built the Room? Belonging by Design in the Age of AI. Introduction by Rhoan Garnett and panel discusison.
Who Built the Room? Belonging by Design in the Age of AI
Who Built the Room? Belonging by Design in the Age of AI
Webinar | March 24, 2026
Rhoan Garnett presents five belonging gaps in institutional design, and what it means when a chatbot feels lower-risk to a student than asking a person for help. A panel conversation on belonging follows. Attendees contributed to a Padlet during the session, and it remains open for you to add to as you watch. Webinar held on March 24, 2026.
Speaker and Moderator: Rhoan Garnett
Panelists: Eric Chown, Bowdoin College; George Cusack, Carleton College; Ike Lage, Colby College; Susan Purrington, Connecticut College
Awakening Together: Building Community Around AI in the Liberal Arts. Presentation by Lance Eaton and panel discussion.
Awakening Together: Building Community Around AI in the Liberal Arts
Awakening Together: Building Community Around AI in the Liberal Arts
Webinar | February 3, 2026
Lance Eaton provides a framing talk and moderates a panel discussion on building community around AI work at liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, following his Harold F. Wiley Keynote presentation at the inaugural AI & the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College in October 2025.
Speaker and Moderator: Lance Eaton
Panelists: Eric Chown, Bowdoin College; Susan Purrington, Connecticut College; David Watts, Colby College
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