Leadership, Skills-Based Learning, and Employment-Ready Graduates in the Age of AI
Panel moderator
Moderating four leaders on what colleges owe students in the age of AI, from skills to human formation.
A conversation with four leaders on what colleges owe students in an AI-saturated world. It moves through three movements: how the ground has shifted, the real tension between preparing employment-ready graduates and forming humans who can navigate a working life that keeps changing, and what higher education has to get right in the next five years. My own thread is the individual agency lens, what it looks like for a graduate, a worker, or a student to build an intentional, authored relationship with AI.
Panelists
Dr. Angie Paccione
Chief Impact Officer, Verus Global Training and Management
Angie Paccione has worked at every level of education and policy, from the high school classroom to the Colorado legislature to executive director of the state's higher education system, and now leadership development at Verus Global.
Dr. Melissa Vito
Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, University of Texas at San Antonio
Melissa Vito leads AI in teaching and learning at UTSA, one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the country, scaling AI across thousands of faculty and students.
Dr. Christine Looser
Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Minerva Project; Associate Professor of Business, Minerva University
Christine Looser brings a cognitive neuroscience lens to learning design. She writes on technology solutionism and builds programs around how brains actually learn.
Rev. Lamont Wells
Executive Director, Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU)
Lamont Wells leads a network of colleges grounded in vocation and flourishing, guided by the conviction that education helps all students flourish.