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Preparing Higher Education for an AI-Enhanced Future

Re-envisioning AI Transformation at Scale

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
Location: Judiciary Square - Level M3

    Primary Presenter(s)

  • Mary Wright

    Professor of Education Scholarship
    University of Sydney, United States

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    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • Chad Hershock

    Executive Director
    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

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    Michael Palmer

    Professor and Barbara Fried Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence
    University of Virginia, United States

How can we prepare our institutions systematically for a future enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI)? We will present a panel discussion that highlights three approaches at scale, across three institutions and two national contexts. Notably, all of these approaches are coordinated by university centers for teaching and learning, but they utilize different strategic approaches, affording participants in this session a broad picture of change tactics. Panelists will speak from the University of Virginia (faculty AI guides), Carnegie Mellon University (generative AI teaching as research), and the University of Sydney (study of a two-lane approach to assessment of writing).