Monday, June 1, 2026
8:30 - Breakfast - 215 Penfield
9:00 - Opening remarks
Session 1: Complex Multi-Source Tasks with AI
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: Peter Ghazarian
Much of AI training focuses on single prompts producing single outputs. Yet much of the work that actually consumes faculty and staff time involves synthesizing across multiple sources: parsing program review materials, comparing accreditation narratives, pulling themes from student feedback, mapping SLOs, or preparing a report. This 20-minute session demonstrates a workflow for using AI to support this kind of sustained, multi-source work, with a live walkthrough of one example from start to finish. Participants will leave with a concrete sense of which tasks are well-suited to this approach and what the workflow looks like in practice.
Session 2: Oz Chatbot - Capturing the Student Voice
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenter: Brian Wallace
This presentation covers how SUNY Oswego leverages AI-powered texting (Oz Chatbot) to capture the student voice and support student success.
Session 3: BBCR: Learning Through AI Failure
Time: 10:00 - 10:20
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: Adan Alberto Gomez
This session introduces the Build, Break, Compare, Reflect (BBCR) framework, a pedagogical approach developed for an undergraduate course at SUNY Oswego that uses free, no-code AI tools to teach scientific thinking. Students build text classification models using their own data, deliberately engineer model failures, compare those failures to documented patterns of human cognition, and then write structured reflections on what they discovered about their own thinking process. The session shares early findings from an ongoing study of how students perceive this methodology and what it does for their development as scientific thinkers — with particular attention to the role of designed failure as a learning event. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of how to implement BBCR in their own courses and why using AI as a cognitive mirror, rather than as a productivity tool, changes what students actually learn.
Session 4: Lightning Sessions - AI Literacy / Literature Review
Time: 10:00 - 10:20
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
A. Title: AILS: A Model for AI Literacy - Nicole Westerdahl
AI literacy is a general education core competency for all incoming SUNY undergraduate students starting in Fall 2026. There are a number of resources for developing assignments designed to help students work with generative AI, but how do you know which activities best support AI literacy? The AILS model provides a simple tool for ensuring your course content supports this new competency.
B. Title: Conducting a Literature Review with AI - Matthew McLeskey
This assignment write-up on how to teach students to do a literature review using AI stems from experiences teaching the Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice, which requires an independent project using scholarly sources and emphasizes the importance of information literacy.
Session 5: Research Acceleration with AI
Time: 10:30 - 10:50
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: David McLain
This session will describe how basic LLM's and Google's NotebookLM can be used to aid in research development and reporting.
Session 6: Using AI to create personas
Time 10:30 - 10:50
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenter: Rebecca Mushtare
This session will describe how I’ve used AI tools to create personas in different contexts for designing assignments, workflows, messaging, etc.
Session 7 : Perspectives on AI
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenters: Emily Mitchell, Juliet Forshaw, Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti, Celinet Duran-Jimenez, Arsalan Mirjafari
As AI adoption continues its rapid expansion in every possible direction, no one person can keep up with everything going on in every field. This panel brings together faculty members from Music, Modern Languages and Literatures, Criminal Justice, Chemistry, and the Library to talk about how they’re seeing AI used in their fields – the good, the bad, and what we need to make sure our students know.
Session 8: AI for Synthesis: From Chaos to Clarity
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenter: Allison Ayotte
Do you have a mountain of ideas but struggle to see the forest through the trees? This workshop explores how Generative AI can serve as a powerful synthesis partner for bottom-up thinkers. Learn how to feed "messy details" into AI and use iterative dialogue to filter out the noise and uncover hidden patterns. Discover how to let AI do the heavy lifting of organization, transforming scattered information into a clear, actionable roadmap so you can focus on the path forward.
Session 9: The Novice’s Guide to AI: Simplifying Administrative Tasks from a Non-Administrator Point of View
Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenter: Shirley Retz
What happens when a non-administrator volunteers to assist with documenting the complex, moving parts of a busy front office? You turn to AI. In this session, we’ll explore how a self-described "AI novice" used simple tools to create guides and draft email templates to help support the day to day operations of a college counseling center. This will be a practical look at how anyone, regardless of their job title or tech background, can use AI to organize workflows, draft professional scripts, and capture workplace knowledge. We will walk through the exact steps used to build the Counseling Services manual, proving that you don’t need to be an expert to make AI work for you.
Session 10: An AI assignment
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: Steven E. Abraham
I participated in the AI fellowship in the spring 2025 semester and as a follow-up, I incorporated AI into my MBA human resource management course. In this session, I will discuss what I did and the results.
Session 11: AI and the Future of Work
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenters: Alumni & Employer Panel, Hosted by Career Services TBD Panelists
The professional world is undergoing a seismic shift. Whether you're worried about automation or excited about innovation, join us for a dynamic discussion with alumni and industry leaders as we prepare graduates for a rapidly shifting economy and job market.
Session 12: AI to improve assessments, rubrics, and assignments
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: Tyler King
I have used AI to help improve the detail of my assignment rubrics, and to make assignment outlines clearer, as well as to save time by helping to generate plausible 'distractor' answers in multiple choice quizzes.
Session 13: AllyCo - student created AI app
Time: 2:00 - 2:20
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenters: Praneeta Pradhan and Bivushi Basnet
AllyCo is a free, voice-powered web app created to help users practice responding to bias, discrimination, and microaggressions in a safe, realistic environment. Utilizing Gemini, Vercel, and ElevenLabs, the platform provides mission-based scenarios where users speak their responses aloud and receive real-time coaching to build confidence and clarity. The tool is designed for individuals and organizations, such as schools and DEI workshops, to bridge the gap between witnessing a difficult moment and having the courage to speak up. This app is created during a recent RIT WiHacks ‘26.
Session 14: AI Prompting for Career Success
Time: 2:00 - 2:20
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenter: Kevin Bachmann
A student-focused approach on how to tailor applications and speed up the job search process.
Session 15: AI queries for class and practice: Examples, tips, and lessons
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: David Runge
Review how Generative AI models such as Gemini and ChatGPT can be used to optimize and speed up functions such as doing best practices research, reviewing potential learning materials, and help you to spend more time doing and less time scrolling and searching.
Session 16: Transforming CTS Help Desk Guides with NotebookLM
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenter: Amanda Odin
Discover how Campus Technology Services (CTS) turns dense Tier 1 support guides into an interactive AI knowledge base. This presentation shows how Help Desk staff use NotebookLM's chat to instantly troubleshoot technology issues, and how they leverage the Studio features to quickly master campus procedures and resources. NotebookLM is designed to ground your sources, so getting the right answers isn't a mystery.
Session 17: Citing AI
Time: 3:00 - 3:20
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter: Nicole Westerdahl
Are you or your students using AI-generated output in your work? Did you know that you need to cite it? Learn the big three citation styles' requirements, how to locate that information, and other options for acknowledging AI use.
Session 18: AI in Practice: A Panel Conversation
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Location: Library Classroom 215 / remote access
Presenters: Members of the Division of Extended Learning
Join a panel of staff from the Division of Extended Learning as they share how they are using AI as part of their work. Panelists will walk through real examples of how AI helps them save steps, improve productivity, and manage increasing demands with limited time and resources. This session focuses on practical, everyday applications you can take back and try in your own work. Both faculty and staff may benefit from this session.
Session 19: TBD
Time: 3:30 - 3:50
Location: 123 Penfield / remote access
Presenter:
TBD