President's Address
Ritsche Auditorium

Join the livestream via Zoom

Coffee and tea will be served in the lobby from 8:15-9 a.m.

Reception
Atwood Cascade

10 a.m to 3 p.m.

(Lunch on your own from noon-1)

Option 1: Digital Accessibility Workshop
Atwood Cascade Room

Facilitators: Molly Tast, Dave Blanchard

Audience: All

Purpose: Provide foundational learning around digital accessibility and structured/supported time to update materials.

This session offers a clear, hands-on support to understand requirements for digital materials accessibility and to create course materials aligned with upcoming digital accessibility expectations. Faculty will explore simple, high-impact changes to improve accessibility of documents, media, and Brightspace content. Make your course more inclusive while reducing future remediation workload. All skill levels are welcome, and participants will leave with immediately usable techniques. Bring your device and materials to update.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

(Lunch on your own from noon-1)

Option 2: Using Brightspace Course Templates as an inclusive teaching practice
Atwood Alumni Room

Facilitators: Jodi Laudenbach, Roseann Wolak, Kendra Self

Audience: Instructional faculty

Purpose: Provide open time for people to learn about how to use the template and build some course materials

Did you know most students access D2L using mobile devices. Using D2L Brightspace templates improves student access to course content and reduces student's cognitive load for locating and using learning materials. Join the SCSU instructional design team for a guided exploration of the new D2L Brightspace course template, designed to streamline course setup, enhance accessibility, and support consistent student experience. Faculty participating in this session will receive targeted support to learn, experiment, and build alongside us.

10 a.m to 3 p.m.

(Lunch on your own from noon-1)

Option 3: AI in education: From tools to campus implementation
Atwood Cascade Room

Audience: Faculty, staff leadership, administrative leadership

Purpose: Increase participants' awareness and ease in using AI for teaching, learning, and other work contexts at SCSU.

This interactive workshop combines live demonstrations across disciplines with hands-on practice using AI tools, while exploring equity considerations and strategies for implementation. Participants will view demonstrations across disciplines showing current and potential uses of AI in education and higher education contexts. They will gain hands-on experience using AI for creating rubrics, quizzes, image generation, summaries, alt text, document summaries, images, and course outlines. Finally, participants will design a short AI application plan for their work context. If you’ve been intending to experiment with using AI in your work, but can’t seem to find the time, this interactive workshop is for you!

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

(Lunch on your own from noon-1)

Option 4. AI Immersive Teaching Workshop
Atwood Alumni Room

Facilitators: Rosemary Williams & Mark Gill

Audience: Faculty who have some experience with AI and are seeking to extend into student partnership models

Purpose: To support faculty in creating a specific plan or proposal for integrating AI into a course.

Participants in this immersive workshop will bring initial ideas for integrating AI into their classrooms and leave with a completed plan or proposal that they can implement during the coming semester. Session leaders will consult with faculty on two fronts: centering student collaboration and creativity and disciplinary values in classroom work with AI, and practical technology considerations.

College/School, Department Meetings