2025-2026 Call for Applications
The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) invite applications for the Faculty AI Guides program. This program is designed to advance the understanding of generative AI across Grounds and to empower faculty to make informed and intentional decisions about the role of generative AI in their teaching.
This call is specifically for new Faculty AI Guides. The upcoming 2025-26 cohort will include a combination of both returning and new Faculty AI Guides.
Detailed Responsibilities
The Faculty AI Guides will:
- Participate in the August AI Institute: On Friday, August 15, Faculty AI Guides will attend the institute on teaching and learning with GenAI for Guides.
- Engage in Peer Learning: Each month during the academic year, Faculty AI Guides will engage in a learning community with fellow Guides, collaboratively exploring GenAI in teaching and learning.
- Lead Discipline-Relevant Learning Opportunities: Faculty AI Guides will offer at least three opportunities spaced across the academic year for their colleagues to learn about generative AI and teaching. These may be lunch-and-learns, presentations, and/or workshops.
- Optional: Contribute to an October AI Symposium, open to instructors across the state.
- Optional: Contribute resources or collections of resources to Teaching Hub: “Generative AI in Teaching and Learning.”
- Offer Consultations and Support: Throughout the academic year, Faculty AI Guides will serve as an ongoing resource for instructors in their own and related disciplines, being available for consultations and referring colleagues to University or school resources as appropriate.
Support for each of these responsibilities will be provided by the CTE.
Eligibility
All full-time faculty (tenure-eligible, tenured, and general faculty) except those in the School of Medicine are eligible to apply.
Qualifications
Applicants should be curious about the possibilities of GenAI in higher education and excited about sharing their knowledge with colleagues and supporting others’ exploration of pedagogical possibilities enabled by this technology. Experience using GenAI in the classroom is preferred.
Term
The Faculty AI Guide will serve a one-year appointment, August 11, 2025-August 14, 2026.
Compensation
The Faculty AI Guide will receive $5,000 for their work throughout the year (see Detailed Responsibilities).
Application Materials
Applicants should apply using the Qualtrics form linked below. Applicants will be asked to answer three short open-ended questions (no more than 200 words each):
- Please describe your interest in and experience, if any, with teaching with GenAI?
- What do you hope to contribute to the Faculty AI Guides program?
- What do you hope to gain personally by participating in the Faculty AI Guides program?
2025-2026 Faculty AI Guides Application
Application Deadline and Process
The call for applications will remain open until July 25, 2025. Review will commence as applications are received. Selections will be based on fit to the qualifications and to arrive at a slate of Guides representing a broad cross-section of departments and disciplines across the University (excluding the School of Medicine).
Any questions can be directed to faculty-ai-guides@virginia.edu.
N.B. Once Faculty AI Guides are selected, we will jointly develop a Memorandum of Understanding between the CTE, Guide, and the Guide’s department chair and academic associate dean. In addition to agreeing to the position details, the chair and dean will confirm that the responsibilities are consistent with the expectations of the Guide’s position.