Provost Communication, September 24, 2025

Good morning and happy Wednesday. Can you believe it is already mid-week and we are a month into the fall semester? Time is flying!

Invitation to Share Your Perspective on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the CSU

The CSU invites you to participate in an anonymous survey about generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, regardless of whether or not you use AI. Your input will help clarify Humboldt’s GenAI- related needs, desires, and possible limits. At the same time, results will help shape a thoughtful CSU-wide response to emerging technologies. The survey is anonymous, takes less than 10 minutes, and participants may enter a drawing to win a gift card or an iPad. You are encouraged to respond so that all points of view are represented.

The survey will be open from Monday, September 22, 2025 through Monday, October 6, 2025.  Thank you for helping guide Humboldt and the CSU in navigating this important topic. Click this link to take the survey: Take the CSU AI Survey.

By the numbers…

• 93% (827/890) of first-year students are in a Place-Based Learning Community (PBLC) this year. 

• 37% (2,200 individual students) are being served by Retention through Academic Mentoring Program (RAMP).

• 146 instructional spaces and 69 graduate labs have been modernized by Information and Technology Services (ITS), including new classroom technology and updated computers to better support teaching and student learning.

Fall 2025 Brown Bag Series - Developing Critical Writers in an AI World

Join Department of English faculty Nicolette Amann and Lisa Tremain for the Fall 2025 Brown Bag Series, Developing Critical Writers in an AI World. Bring your lunch and your ideas for creating engaging, resilient writing pedagogy, and explore strategies for designing assignments that cultivate deep thinking, build critical awareness of AI, and strengthen disciplinary writing. These sessions are open to all faculty and staff.

Topics and Dates

• Thursday, October 2, 2025: Writing assignment designs that address AI dependence: Application-focused writing about community and place

• Wednesday, October 29, 2025: Overview of the Transparency in Teaching & Learning (TILT) framework and its benefits for writing assignment design in the age of AI

• Thursday, November 20, 2025: Dispositional and pedagogical frameworks that resist or critique AI dependence

• Wednesday, December 12, 2025: Process vs. product—how to design engaging, process-based, multi-step writing assignments

All workshops will be held from 12:00 to 12:50 p.m. in the Library Fishbowl (LIB 209). Space is limited. Please RSVP for one or more workshops at this link: Developing Critical Writers in an AI World - fall 2025 Workshop Series.

Have a great rest of your week.

Sincerely,

Jenn Capps