Joel VannerMeet the Saulnier Family Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Fund recipients.
Faculty News
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Saulnier Family Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Fund, Karen Majeski, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy and Stephanie Miller, Assistant Professor of Accounting!
Karen is presenting on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Strategies at the annual Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her presentation focuses on the development of an interprofessional education session (IPE) to enhance consistency, coordination, and outcomes among transition programs for young adults with intellectual disabilities.
Stephanie will attend the Academy of Business Research Florida Keys Conference in Marathon, FL later this month. Her presentation, “Conversations about Equity in Accounting Classrooms,” provides attendees with the ideas, tools, and resources for instructors to talk about accounting-related equity issues. The session will offer background information, discussion prompts, and links to recent news articles that accounting faculty can use in their own classrooms.
On the Topic: AI in Perspective
Artificial Intelligence is many things for educators these days: the elephant in the room, the future, a promise, a threat, and perhaps most importantly, increasingly ubiquitous. It can feel hard to know what to do about it, when to use it, and when to avoid it, especially given how rapidly it seems to change. It can seem even harder to know how to communicate with students about its uses, misuses, and all the ethical and pedagogical questions it raises. The recommendations below provide support, validation, and important ideas for all educators, regardless of your own level of experience, familiarity, or openness to AI tools.
Kevin Gannon, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 24, 2025
In this piece, Kevin Gannon calls on colleges to include AI resisters in institutional conversations about AI. He argues that incorporating a wide range of perspectives, from champions to skeptics, will help institutions refine their approaches in ways that are nuanced, critically informed, and ethically sound.
Designed for Learning Podcast, October 2, 2025
In this episode, host James Lang talks with Derek Bruff, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Virginia, about what happens when we allow technological tools to take over skills for us. Throughout the conversation, Lang and Bruff discuss the strengths and weaknesses of AI tools for teaching and learning and their in-class human analogs. They provide excellent food for thought that we can use to help empower our students to make good decisions about when to use and avoid AI.
Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast, October 2, 2025
In this episode, host Bonni Stachowiak and guest Mike Caulfield discuss his tool, Deep Background, and how it can help students think critically and do critical work. Caulfield’s work offers forward-looking, exciting, and innovative engagement with AI while keeping cognizant of how AI can water down important educational processes for students learning to do research. As he asks, “Searching for information is a journey. How can we get the benefits of AI but still preserve that feeling of a journey?”
