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A Student-Centered Model For Ethically Evaluating Ai Integration In Learning Support Services And Beyond, Cristina Caputo, Raymond Bruels Iii, Alexis Rivera

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes higher education, learning support centers are uniquely positioned to intentionally assess whether if and how to best integrate AI tools into academic services. This session presents a 6-week project framework that was designed to:

• Review the literature on critical AI literacy and training

• Benchmark current best practices in AI policy, use, and integration alongside human-centered academic services

• Examine student AI knowledge and use (needs assessment)

• Identify and evaluate relevant AI tools or platforms

The framework was developed within the Academic Success Center (ASC) at Nevada State University where Center peer educators …

Core Mathematics Applications Using Ai, Zachary Porter

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

This presentation examines ways to use prompts with AI to build on the applications of core mathematics topics involving algebra, finance, probability, and statistics. We will use AI to discover how the topics in core mathematics could apply to students regardless of their major.

Enhancing Mathematics Learning With Notebooklm: From Passive Study To Active Engagement, Nakisa Ghanbarian, Diana Moss

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

This 25-minute interactive session explores how NotebookLM can be used to enhance student learning in mathematics by transforming passive study habits into active engagement. Rather than focusing solely on the capabilities of AI, this session emphasizes practical, classroom-centered applications that support conceptual understanding and meaningful learning.   Participants will be introduced to key features of NotebookLM, including its ability to generate explanations, summaries, guided responses, and audio-based content from instructor-provided materials. Through live demonstrations, we will present realistic student use cases, such as exploring difficult concepts, identifying and correcting errors in problem-solving, generating personalized study guides, and creating additional practice opportunities. …

Teaching In The Ai Era: Studying Faculty Course Redesign, Visible Thinking, And Sustainable Implementation, Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa Api

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

How can faculty development move beyond generic AI guidance toward redesigns that make student thinking visible, clarify AI expectations, and remain feasible for teaching-intensive institutions? This presentation shares the design and emerging findings from Nevada State University’s AI & Accessibility Academy study, which follows faculty from a summer course redesign academy into fall implementation. The study examines changes in faculty self-efficacy around AI-era pedagogy and accessibility, the redesign practices faculty implement, how course artifacts reflect process-focused assessment and accessible design, and what factors support or constrain sustained implementation.

The session describes the study’s mixed-methods design, including faculty pre/post/follow-up surveys, artifact …

Ai Tutors, Worksheets, And Task Design: Matching Ai Tools To Learning Structure, Brock Casselman

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used by students as a learning resource in STEM courses. However, classroom observations and survey data suggest that unstructured AI use may correlate with reduced student achievement. Two concerns are especially relevant: AI systems can produce incorrect responses in tasks requiring precise validation, and students may use AI in ways that reduce active engagement with course material.

This session presents two instructional approaches designed to address these limitations: structured AI-generated worksheets and in-chat AI tutors. AI worksheets generate controlled sets of practice problems within instructor-defined course constraints. In-chat tutors provide interactive practice through problem generation, Socratic …

Crafting Resilient Ai Policies For Education, Delight Ejiaka, Miranda Hannasch, Branden Cunningham

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into academic spaces requires a shift from passive restriction to resilient, active pedagogical frameworks. This virtual panel explores actionable strategies to protect academic integrity, promote deep critical thinking, and manage AI use, particularly in foundational courses. Panelists will discuss the implementation of high-engagement classroom interventions. The will offer frameworks for transparent student disclosure practices. Attendees will leave with practical templates for syllabus policies, assignment rubrics, and disclosure benchmarks designed to foster a culture of transparency and process-oriented learning in an AI-permeated landscape.

Resisting Ai With Paper: Possibilities, Concerns And Protest, Laura Evans

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

While there are a number of commercial benefits involved in incorporating AI usage and training into college composition classrooms, to many the perils and problems involved in student AI use outweigh these possibilities. A growing number of composition instructors have chosen to return to requiring assignments to be handwritten on paper as an increasingly viable, and even necessary, strategy to combat the growing use of ChatGPT and other AI text generation software as an essay-writing tool. This strategy has a number of potential benefits – the ability to regulate AI usage, to create better memory retention, and decrease student screen-time …

Designing Custom Chatbots For Classroom Use: Practical Examples, Benefits, And Current Limitations, Akio Abe, Farrukh Nazir

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

Recent advances in generative AI have made it increasingly possible for individual educators to design and implement their own custom chatbots without advanced programming skills (Abe & Kaneshige, 2025). This workshop introduces practical examples of custom chatbots developed for educational purposes and discusses both their affordances and limitations for classroom use.

We would like to share a chatbot creation experience, which we spent one hour building, with a 30-minute presentation. For each chatbot, we will explain its intended purpose, target users, basic specifications, and expected classroom applications. We will also describe the development process, including how the presenters designed the …

Update On New Course: Advanced Topics In Data Analysis, Paul Rummelhoff, Academics

Professional Learning Day

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Titans On The Move: Navigating Intersession Trips With Confidence, Sam Rivera Miller, Human Resources, Dr. Luke Berryman, Academics

Professional Learning Day

See student travel posters and wish you were going, but anxious about leading a trip? Want to get to know more students, but don't work in a student-facing role? Come and get inspiration from our real-life success story! Group travel at IMSA is simpler, safer, and more fully-supported than ever before. Join Dr. Luke Berryman (Director of Experiential Learning) and Samantha Rivera Miller (HR Associate & lead chaperone for the 2025-26 trip to the UK) to explore travel vendor options and trip proposals. Step up with confidence and turn student travel into a rewarding, exciting reality!

Inside Imsa’S Ai Credential: Building Ai Skills For Students & Educators, Tami Armstrong, Ai Center,, Dr. Zack Conley, Outreach,, Kavithaa Suresh Kumar, Academics,, Marti Shirley, Imsa Alum

Professional Learning Day

Explore IMSA’s free, online AI Credential, launching this fall as a self-paced, asynchronous course for high school students and educators. Participants will get an inside look at the eight-module curriculum designed to build foundational AI knowledge, responsible use, and practical skills. The session will also preview how IMSA plans to build on this experience to develop a dedicated educator AI Credential focused on pedagogy, instructional strategies, and meaningful classroom application.

Chicago Engagement: Imsa Joins The Legacy Of The Bud Billiken, Simone Moore, Admissions

Professional Learning Day

Explore Chicago's iconic annual Bud Billiken Parade, learn how to get involved, and connect with the local community!

Imsa Engage360, Dr. Kristi Kelly,Student Affairs

Professional Learning Day

This session will introduce IMSA Engage360, an emerging whole-student framework that reimagines the campus experience through Care, Connection, and Curiosity. Grounded in student engagement theory, Engage360 connects academic, residential, and co-curricular experiences to student learning, relationships, growth, and contribution. Participants will explore how the framework supports intentional design and assessment of experiences that foster meaningful connection, curiosity, care, and students’ capacity to contribute to the human condition.

Srelo: Imsa’S Efforts To Expand Student Access To Research, Dr. Evan Glazer, Imsa President, Dr. Anita White, Outreach

Professional Learning Day

This session will provide an overview of Summer Residential Experiential Learning Opportunities (SRELO), including its history, recent expansion, and engagement of IMSA Scholars through a statewide network of partners. IMSA colleagues can also propose programs. With grant support, SRELO is free for participants at more than 10 locations statewide. Also during this session, we will share goals for the year and invite input on potential partners to support our growing impact.

Modeling With Clay-Anatomy, Lassandra Walker, Academics

Professional Learning Day

The human body is a complex intricate network of systems that work together. How the body is molded consists of not only networks but intricate levels of organizations that shape how we think about the human body and its structures and functions. Modeling with clay requires art skills and creativity to move away from textbooks. Students will learn about sculpting tools and anatomical structures. Also, students will learn how to create a 2D or 3D human body from clay, and practice interpreting human form from sculpture.

Ai For Everyone: Designing An Introductory Ai Course Across Disciplines, Jesse Fitts, Waleed Faris

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

As artificial intelligence reshapes virtually every field, universities face a growing imperative to ensure AI literacy is not reserved for computer science majors alone. This panel presents the collaborative design of an introductory AI course built for undergraduate general education — one that serves students across disciplines, regardless of technical background.

Two co-designers will share the story of building the course from complementary angles. The first presenter will address the technical foundation of the curriculum: how core AI concepts such as machine learning, data, and algorithms were translated into accessible, hands-on learning experiences for non-specialist students. The second presenter will …

From “I’M Not A Coder” To “I Built A Website”: Teaching Business Concepts Through Ai Vibe Coding, Jean Jeon

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

This presentation shares my experience developing an AI vibe coding project for business students with little or no coding experience. Students first replicated a website, then created their own improved version and learned from peer feedback. Through trial and error, they revised their prompts and applied course concepts related to target audiences, user experience, branding, and business models. What began as an AI tool assignment became a learning-by-doing experience that encouraged students to think like marketers. I will share the project structure, student learning process, and lessons I learned while learning alongside my students.

Trust But Verify: Testing A Framework For Ai Interrogation In Nursing Education, Michael Chamberlain

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

Generative AI produces fluent, confident output that is sometimes fabricated. Nursing students increasingly submit work built on sources that do not exist, or that exist and do not support the claims drawn from them. This session reports two semesters of classroom observation testing whether prompt design can address that problem.   The hypothesis was that structuring student prompts to require the AI to validate its own sources would improve detection of hallucinated citations. It did not. Across two sections, students who used the structured format caught fabricated citations at the same rate as students given an open prompt. Structure did change …

Becoming Anything: Stem Cells And The Power Of Analogy, Sarah O’Leary-Driscoll, Dr. Jessica Amacher, Academics

Professional Learning Day

How does a single cell become a heart, a neuron, or skin? In this session, we will explore stem cells and cell differentiation through analogy-based modeling. No prior knowledge necessary! Participants will work through a hands-on analogy that makes gene expression familiar and concrete. Then we will discuss other examples, and consider what makes analogies effective and where they break down. Come to learn the fascinating science of how we each develop; leave with a powerful teaching strategy you can use in any discipline.

Imsa Fund 101: Where Does It Come From? Where Does It Go?, Dana Camacho,, Cesar Patino, Janine Barajas,, Sharon Doering-Domanus,, Meg Junk, Scott Kreiter,, Tami Armstrong

Professional Learning Day

Whether you’ve been at IMSA for 1 year or 10+, you may have questions about the IMSA Fund, where resources come from, where they go, and how they are distributed. Join IMSA Fund staff to learn more about how the IMSA Fund supports IMSA, and provide feedback on how faculty, staff, and students might like to be involved. Share your ideas around fundraising, communication, recognition, and more.