Apply for the AI-focused 2025-2026 CELT Teaching Innovation Institute
The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) is pleased to invite applications for its 2025-26 Teaching Innovation Institute. The Teaching Innovation Institute is a cross-disciplinary, year-long cohort experience for faculty eager to examine the evolving impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on teaching and learning.
As we approach two and half years since the release of ChatGPT, the limitations and capabilities of generative AI continue to change. Likewise, the literature about generative AI, both scholarly and otherwise, indicates that there is no singular stance or set of practices to guide higher education’s approach to it. What we do know is that the building of critical literacies around AI are deeply rooted in disciplinary-based experimentation, research, and scrutiny. To that end, the Teaching Innovation Institute reflects on and explores the relevant issues surrounding AI in the context of participants’ unique disciplines, classrooms, and research environments. These issues may include:
- fostering critical literacies;
- engaging in ethical questions,
- ensuring safe development and implementation,
- considering social and historical contexts,
- developing practical skills, and
- enhancing educational goals and outcomes.
Through guided inquiry, workshops, research, readings, and small group conversation, members of the cohort will work collaboratively with peers across the disciplines to inform their own approaches to AI in their teaching and/or research.