Fostering Departmental AI Integration: A Scalable Approach to Pedagogical and Curricular Change

This session will explore the AI Lab, a new initiative at Georgetown University designed to help academic departments thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching and curriculum. Moving beyond one-off workshops, the AI Lab offers a flexible, opt-in framework for departmental reflection, adaptation, and sustained engagement with AI's evolving landscape. We will present the modular structure of the AI Lab, which begins with a needs assessment and offers tailored engagement options across AI literacy, pedagogy, and curriculum. Attendees will gain insights into fostering deep, sustained faculty engagement with AI; creating adaptable program structures; and developing workshop materials useable by diverse facilitators. We will share our design philosophy emphasizing reflection over prescription and outline our initial implementation strategies. Then we will invite participants to discuss how similar models can cultivate systemic, rather than superficial, AI integration within their own institutional contexts. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.