2024-2025 Call for Applications

The Faculty AI Guides will:

• Participate in Foundational Trainings: On August 19-20, Faculty AI Guides will participate in a two-day in-person training on teaching and learning with generative AI. 

  • Optional: Complete Teaching in a World with Generative AI, an online course developed by UVA faculty and staff, which will be available in Summer 2024.

• Engage in Peer Learning: Each month during the academic year, Faculty AI Guides will engage in a faculty learning community with fellow Guides, collaboratively exploring generative AI 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 presentations, workshops, informal discussions, or lunch-and-learns.

  • Optional: Contribute to a workshop or presentation series open to all UVA faculty

  • Optional: Lead a community of practice related to applications of generative AI in their discipline

  • Optional: Contribute to the CTE’s Teaching Hub gallery “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.

All full-time faculty (tenure-eligible, tenured, and general faculty) except those in the School of Medicine are eligible to apply.

Applicants should be curious about the possibilities of generative AI in higher education and excited about sharing their knowledge with colleagues and supporting others’ exploration of pedagogical possibilities enabled by this technology.

The Faculty AI Guide will serve a one-year appointment, August 15, 2024-August 14, 2025, renewable with mutual agreement.

The Faculty AI Guide will receive a $5,000 administrative supplement for their work throughout the year (see Detailed Responsibilities).

Applicants should apply using this Qualtrics form. We recommend completing the application in its entirety in one sitting since work is sometimes lost.

Within the form, applicants will be asked to answer one short open-ended question (no more than 300 words): “Please describe your interest in and experience, if any, with teaching with generative AI, and what you hope to gain from participating in the AI Guides program.”

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.

Selections will be based on match to the desired qualifications, with the aim of arriving at a slate of Guides representing a broad cross-section of departments and disciplines across the University (excluding the School of Medicine).

The call for applications will remain open until June 7, 2024. Review will commence as applications are received. Applicants should apply via the Qualtrics form. Any questions can be directed to faculty-ai-guides@virginia.edu.