AI Working Group

Charge of Artificial Intelligence Working Group

Purpose

This group will enable Bates to engage systematically with issues around artificial intelligence in higher education, including curriculum, pedagogy, student assessment, ethics, data security, and the daily work of college employees.

Goals and Deliverables
  1. Build a community articulation of the ways that our institutional values inform our choices around AI. This articulation can serve as an overarching set of principles within which more specific policies or guidelines can be framed by standing committees, departments, or offices. 
  2. Assess the needs of the college with respect to AI, as they exist currently and as the landscape changes.
  3. Prioritize the needs as they are identified.
  4. Map the needs onto existing committees or offices, and support those entities in taking up that work. 
  5. Create communication plans for relaying the work of this group and for facilitating conversations across other committees, departments, and offices.

Working Group Members

  • Don Dearborn, Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of the Faculty
  • Pat Schoknecht, Vice President for Information and Library Services College Librarian
  • Andee Bucciarelli, Assistant Dean of Community Standards & Deputy Title IX
  • Jason Castro, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and member of the Digital and Computational Studies program
  • Indya Childs, Academic Administrative Assistant
  • Allen Delong, Senior Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Bates Center for Purposeful Work
  • Lindsey Hamilton, Director of the Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning
  • Michael Hanrahan, Director of Curricular and Research Computing
  • Kevin Johnson, Associate Dean of Admission
  • Alina Kunakbayeva ’28
  • Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
  • Kristen Lainsbury, Vice President for Communications and Marketing
  • Seulgie Lim, Associate Professor of Politics
  • Tom McGuinness, Director of Institutional Research, Analysis, and Planning
  • Razvan Negru ’29
  • Tim Pratt, Director of Facility Services Operations
  • Robert Strong, Director of National Fellowships
  • Tom Twist, Assistant Director of Sustainability
  • Leigh Weisenburger, Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Secretary to the Board of Trustees