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The 2026-27 academic year marks the third annual cohort of the CTE's Faculty AI Guides program that is designed to advance the use and understanding of generative AI in education at the University.

Teaching is a learned skill. Michael Palmer at the Center for Teaching Excellence explains how faculty and students can thrive in the classroom.

Through using a program like the Faculty AI Guides and promoting alternative grading methods in the classroom, CTE makes an attempt to further understand AI head-on.

While there is substantial debate over the appropriate role of generative AI in higher education, one area of agreement is that AI cannot be ignored. In this episode, CTE Associate Director Derek Bruff and his The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching coauthors discuss what faculty need to know to be AI-aware in their teaching.

Justice for the em dash! In this episode, host Bryan Doppel is joined by CTE Associate Director Derek Bruff to address the elephant in the (class)room: AI!

With artificial intelligence evolving at such a rapid pace, it can feel intimidating to try and keep up. In this podcast episode, Faculty AI Guide Natasha Heny offers insights into some of the fears and misconceptions about AI and shares practical ways we can begin developing our own AI literacy.

CTE Associate Director Adriana Streifer joins The Grading Podcast to explore how specifications grading, course design, and institutional culture intersect with the broader movement to rethink grading in higher education.

The Batten School associate professor credits the CTE for his ability to look years down the line. “What will a student do differently years after they walk out of my classroom for the last time? How will they think differently?"

What happens to grading when AI can do so much of what we’ve traditionally asked students to do by hand? In this episode, Boz and Sharona talk with CTE Associate Director Derek Bruff about his three-stage journey into mastery-based assessment.