Mark your calendars for the 2027 Spring Forum on Teaching, taking place on February 5, 2028, in the Millennium Student Center from 9:00AM - 3:00PM. Hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning, this year's forum will explore: From Classroom to Career: Preparing Students for an AI–Impacted Workforce.
During this year’s Spring Forum on Teaching, we will hear from various panels of hiring managers, recent graduates, and current students with reflections on their experience with AI impacting their workplaces. Faculty from across campus will share assignments, activities, teaching approaches, and innovative practices that help students navigate a rapidly changing professional landscape.
More information and registration link coming soon!Past Spring Forum on Teaching Events
The 2025 CTL Spring Forum on Teaching topic was Preparing Students for an AI World: Focusing on Process over Product. This virtual event, held on Zoom on Friday, February 7th, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, challenged attendees to move beyond our first reactions to AI. Whether or not we’re enthusiastic about AI’s meteoric rise, we need to prepare our students to engage with AI in thoughtful, ethical, and productive ways. Preparing them for the workforce—and to be enlightened citizens—requires practical knowledge of these powerful tools.
Our event featured guest keynote speaker, Dr. Jason Gulya, professor of English at Berkeley College. Dr. Gulya teaches the ethics of AI and writes the popular online newsletter The AI Edventure. He will share concrete, actionable steps that educators can teach AI to students holistically. In addition, he facilitated a workshop that invited faculty and staff to brainstorm ways to integrate AI skills into degree program outcomes. We also hosted a panel discussion of faculty and leaders in the Pierre Laclede Honors College, where AI has become part of curriculum planning and community conversation, as an example of how college-wide collaboration can help navigate these complexities.