Upcoming Talk: “A.I. and the New Academic Responsibilities”
Join the TU Writing Center, College of Liberal Arts, and Cook Library, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Writing Program, for an event focused on teaching writing in the age of Generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI).
Date: Friday, August 29, 2025
Time: 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Place: South Campus Pavilion (click for map)
Refreshments will be provided. This event is free of charge.
Keynote Address: “AI and the New Academic Responsibilities”
Powerful technologies now permeate our and our students’ writing environments, offering us tools to enhance or outsource our work. What are teachers’ responsibilities in this new landscape? What are students’ responsibilities? Dr. Cryer’s talk aims to chart an ethical, critical path through these difficult questions.
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Following the keynote, faculty will have an opportunity to reflect on their policies and approaches to GenAI, specifically in the context of student writing assignments. In a hands-on workshop, faculty will learn strategies and have opportunities for feedback on their writing assignment policies.
Our evening will close with a panel discussion hosted by Dr. Kofi Adisa from the TU Writing Center about the affordances, drawbacks, and ethical considerations around the use of GenAI platforms.
Dan Cryer is Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. His website, The AI Minimalist, offers tools and resources for college instructors teaching with and against AI in writing-intensive courses. His research interests include AI and writing, pro-gun rhetoric, and the American environmental movement. His work has appeared in Inside Higher Ed, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, English Studies, and other scholarly journals. He is a TU alum and plays drums in the Baltimore-based funk band Jay Jay.
Carly Schnitzler teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University in the University Writing Program. Her research and teaching center digital rhetoric, creative computation, and the public humanities. She is co-editor of TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (2023) and TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments (2024, 2025), open-access pedagogical collections showcasing early experiments in thoughtfully teaching writing with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. She is also the founder of If, Then: Technology and Poetics, an inclusive community of artists, scholars and teachers.
Ernest Anderson is a Research and Instruction Librarian at Towson University where he serves as liaison to the Environmental Science & Studies Program. Prior to relocating to Maryland, he served as a member of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative at East Texas A&M University where he facilitated training on AI in higher education for his campus community. His research interests include information literacy, algorithmic bias, and how technology shapes information-seeking behaviors.
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