This event is part of CHESS AI Week: Exploring Artificial Intelligence Across the Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences 

Facilitating: Debarati Dutta, Abby Goetz, and Victoria Smith; Register

This interactive roundtable discussion between students, community and faculty / staff will focus on student reading and writing experiences. Facilitators from the CHESS 49er Intensive Transition Program (FIT) 2025-2026 cohort and leadership team will foreground student experiences with AI in various academic writing situations. They will use a combination of personal narrative, storytelling, and research to share how students read syllabi, course policies, and assignments to make critical, and sometimes uninformed, decisions about when and how to compose with AI. 

After the initial circle of storytelling, panelists will collaborate with attendees to articulate how students and faculty can partner to create learning experiences that foster AI literacies in all classrooms across the university. Come co-create academic environments that center practice, experimentation, failure, and learning development without fear of penalty and academic suspension.   

4 to 5 p.m., College of Health & Human Services Building, Room 155

Stay for:

5:05 - 5:20 p.m. (between presentations)
AI Test Kitchen: Recipe for Prompt Engineering on Brainstorming, Ideation, and CoDesign (Copilot)
Offered by the UNC Charlotte Center for Teaching and Learning: Jordan Register, Ph.D., Instructional Designer/Technologist and Rebecca Burry, Ed.D., Instructional Designer/Technologist, Center for Teaching and Learning

Student Bios

Abby Goetz is a second-year student majoring in Criminal Justice with minors in Cognitive Science and Security & Intelligence Studies. Abby currently serves as a peer mentor for the CHESS Forty-Niner Intensive Transition (FIT) Program. In this role, Abby supports incoming students in their academic and personal transition to college. She believes that having a foundational understanding of artificial intelligence is increasingly important–not only for personal, academic, and professional growth, but also to orient students who are navigating college writing in a world shaped by technology. She is eager to engage in thoughtful conversations about how AI is shaping the world, especially for students and future professionals in fields such as criminal justice and intelligence.

Victoria Smith is a third-year student majoring in Psychology with minors in Africana Studies and Women & Gender Studies. As a Student Engagement Ambassador in CHESS, Victoria partners with students, faculty, and admins in CHESS to promote student needs, to support CHESS departments with student recruitment, and to develop student-centered events and programs. Victoria is a community organizer and strives to create dialogue around difficult topics.