Today and tomorrow, I’m grateful for the opportunity to be at Franklin College, facilitating a series of conversations with faculty around AI and higher education—not as a futuristic abstraction, but as a present-day reality shaping teaching, learning, and academic work.
These sessions are less about delivering answers and more about creating space for critical, thoughtful dialogue and engagment. Together, we’ll explore the big picture of why AI matters in education right now, what students are already experiencing and expecting, and how faculty can navigate the tensions, possibilities, and uncertainties that come with these tools. My goal is to help surface shared questions, concerns, and values—because meaningful responses to AI aren’t individual decisions; they’re collective ones.
We’ll ground the conversation in hands-on activities and practical examples, hoping to include more tangible considerations as we move from ideas to application. Whether someone is AI-curious, AI-cautious, or somewhere in between, the focus is on building capacity to engage thoughtfully rather than reactively.
I’ll be sharing the slide deck from these sessions here for anyone who wants to explore further, revisit ideas, or continue the conversation beyond Franklin. If you’re thinking about how AI intersects with teaching, learning, and institutional values, I’m always open to conversation so we can continue ask and explore good questions together.
Justin Hodgson 