Time: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Location: Hall of Science T07
Presenters: Katie Hut (Business and Economics Librarian, University Library Faculty), Caron Martinez (Senior Director, Kogod Center for Professionalism & Communications, and Adjunct Instructor, KSB | Management), Liz Romig (Interim Assistant Vice Provost, AU Career Center and AU Abroad), & Alison Thomas (Assistant Dean for Academic Integrity & Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, CAS | Literature)
Session Description:
The sense that employers want to hire graduates with AI skills is a big motivator and source of pressure on students and faculty. It also has potential implications for curriculum. What do employers want to see when reviewing job candidates? What is the kind of “AI skill” employers are looking for? And how might the ways of thinking that a liberal arts education has traditionally taught still have urgency/currency?
This moderated panel will share insights from AU’s relationships with potential employers through our career center, and we’ll interrogate what “AI skills” might entail by discussing AI literacy as both academic and professional imperative.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify recent employment trends
- Review research about job anxiety as it relates to generative AI
- Unpack “AI skills” as employment criteria
- Define AI literacy
- Define human skills worth prioritizing based on employer feedback
- Include human skills in their teaching regardless of discipline and give them a few ideas of how to integrate these skills
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