Generative AI Initiatives and Workshops
Fall 2026 Workshops and Programs for Faculty
This fall, the Innovation Center is offering a series of applied labs, workshops, forums, conversations, and community exchanges exploring AI across teaching, learning, research, creative practice, and higher education.
AI Lab: Creating with Adobe Firefly: Images, Video and Sound
Monday, September 28, 2:00–3:00 PM ET, via Zoom
Format: Applied Lab · 1 hour
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Explore how Adobe Firefly can support creative experimentation across images, video, and sound. Faculty will be introduced to generative media workflows and consider how these tools can be used in studio, design, storytelling, and media-based courses. The session will also create space to discuss authorship, originality, creative process, and the role of generative AI in creative practice.
AI Lab: Gemini and NotebookLM for Teaching, Research and Creative Work
Tuesday, September 29, 3:00–4:00 PM ET, via Zoom
Format: Applied Lab · 1 hour
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This applied session introduces practical ways faculty can use Gemini and NotebookLM across teaching, research, creative work, and everyday academic tasks. Participants will see demonstrations and experiment with workflows for developing ideas, working with source materials, organizing information, and supporting project development. The session is designed to help faculty identify useful, realistic ways to integrate these tools into their own practice.
AI in Higher Education: Emerging Developments, Critical Questions and Shifting Practices
Tuesday, October 13, 3:00–4:15 PM ET, via Zoom
Format: Faculty Forum · 75 minutes
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping practices across higher education, from teaching and assessment to research, creative work, governance, and academic labor. This faculty conversation will examine emerging developments and consider the critical questions they raise for institutions, educators, and students. Participants will reflect on how practices are shifting, where tensions are emerging, and what these changes may mean for the future of higher education.
AI’s Environmental Impact: Sustainability, Access, and Responsibility
Tuesday, October 27, 4:00–5:00 PM ET, via Zoom
Format: Workshop & DIscussion
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Generative AI depends on computational infrastructure, energy, water, and material resources that carry environmental and social implications. This session examines the environmental footprint of AI and considers how questions of sustainability, access, equity, and responsibility intersect with its use in higher education. Faculty will discuss how these issues can be addressed critically and meaningfully in teaching, research, and academic practice.
Navigating The New School AI Policy: From Principles to Practice
A series of focused sessions introducing The New School’s new AI policy and exploring how its principles translate into everyday practice across the university.
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Faculty + Students
Monday, October 26, 3:30–4:30 PM ET, via Zoom
Focus: Teaching, learning, research, and creative practice
Staff
Tuesday, November 3, 3:30–4:30 PM ET, via Zoom
Focus: Administrative and operational work
Open to All
Tuesday, November 10, 3:30–4:30 PM ET, via Zoom
Focus: Questions from across the university community
These sessions introduce The New School’s new AI policy and explore how its principles apply across teaching, learning, research, creative practice, and everyday work. Participants will review key areas of guidance and consider how the policy connects to common questions around transparency, authorship, responsible use, student work, and academic integrity. Each session will include practical scenarios and discussion focused on translating policy into everyday practice.
Opportunities
AI in the Classroom: Faculty Mini-Case Showcase
October + November · Dates TBA
Format: Faculty Conversation + Peer Exchange · 1 hour
Format for presenters: 10-minute faculty presentation + 10-minute conversation
Faculty are invited to share short cases highlighting how they are using AI in their teaching. Each mini-case will focus on one concrete example—such as an assignment, classroom activity, creative or research workflow, assessment approach, or student project—followed by conversation and questions.
These October and November sessions are designed as an informal peer exchange where faculty can share experiments, lessons learned, challenges, and emerging practices across disciplines.
No formal presentation or polished case study is required—just bring a concrete example from your teaching practice.
Interested in presenting? Please enter your information in the Faculty Mini-Case Form.
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