The Center for Teaching and Learning is here to support you as you navigate the new and rapidly evolving landscape of AI in the classroom and as we prepare our students to engage with AI tools ethically and creatively. In Spring 2024, UNCA conducted its first campus-wide AI Taskforce, co-led by Dr. Marietta Cameron, Dr. Lei Han, and Dr. Kate Zubko, to begin the institutional review and planning process. The pedagogical subcommittee issued the following report and recommendations: May 2024 Report. The CTL is committed to building out resources, workshops, and learning opportunities for our faculty and staff based on the further recommended actions in the report. Contact Stephanie O’Brien (sobrien@unca.edu), our CTL Faculty Fellow focused on Generative AI support, with any suggestions or questions!
Upcoming and Ongoing Opportunities
- 2025-2026 AI Departmental Liaisons: Curating Discipline Specific GenAI Resources Faculty Learning Community (CDSAI – FLC) – see more information here, sign-ups are due March 31, 2025
- 2025 Insights on Living and Working with GenAI at UNCA, bimonthly email communications to faculty/staff (see archive of past posts by Faculty Fellow Stephanie O’Brien (Mass Communication)
- 2024-2025 Faculty/Staff Learning Circle: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Facilitator: Stephanie O’Brien, Mass Communication), Book Group: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
- 2024-2025 Faculty/Staff Learning Circle: Who Wrote This? (A Critical Look at AI & Human Writing) (Facilitators: Brian Graves (English) & Robert Bell (Writing Center), Book Group: Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing by Naomi Baron
- UNC Charlotte Professional Certificate in Generative AI
- Current Cohort, Feb 26-March 11, 2025
- Upcoming Cohort, June 11-June 24, 2025 (Registration Now Open, contact ctl@unca.edu in advance of registration about fund availability to cover the fee
Resources
- Using Generative AI Appropriately (UNC Chapel Hill Infographic), UNC Chapel Hill AI Hub (including tutorials)
- Sample AI Course Policies at UNCA (feel free to add your own!)
- AI Policy Samples (multiple universities, searchable by subject)
- “AI detectors don’t work, here is what to do instead” (MIT)
- “How to Productively Address AI-generated Texts in Your Classroom” (Indiana Univ): There is a 15 minute video on this page that walks a faculty member through having a conversation with a student about non-allowable AI-generated work
- One Useful Thing (Blog by Ethan Mollick)
- Conceptualizing AI Literacy (Ng, et. al. 2021)
Past Programs
- AI and Career Readiness (Sept. 2024): Presented by Lauren DeHaan (Career Center)
- AI Basics for Syllabus Policies (Aug. 2024): Presented by Stephanie O’Brien, Mass Communication)
- Developing Your AI Course Policy for First Year Seminars, Summer Student Success Institute (May 2024): Facilitated by Renuka Gusain (Interdisciplinary Studies)
- Incorporating AI: Assignment Sharing and Course Technology Policies (Aug. 2023): Presented by Renuka Gusain (Interdisciplinary Studies) and Robert Bell (Writing Center)
- Considering A.I. Writing: A CTL Think Tank (Feb. 2023): Facilitated by Jessica Pisano (English/First Year Writing Coordinator)