Advancing the Art and Science of Teaching

While many of us acknowledge the urgency of incorporating environmental justice into our teaching, few of us have the capacity to add new content to already packed syllabi. Here are several ways in which instructors across disciplines can advance environmental awareness without having to reinvent their courses:

How do we muster the energy to teach through this fraught moment? How do we handle the multifaceted uncertainty? How do we stay grounded when students and colleagues find themselves beleaguered by worries about potential program closures, the future of research projects and scholarship funding, access to student aid, access to medical care, bias, harassment, deportation, and ongoing threats to our academic freedom, our freedom to teach, and our shared values?

It has now been over two years since OpenAI made ChatGPT available to the general public. Thousands of meetings, debates, webinars, workshops, articles, social media posts, and TikTok tutorials later, higher education is still adjusting to the rapidly evolving reality of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).