Faculty at the Edges: How Universities Should Master AI

When: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time: The lecture will run from 5:30–7:00 pm. A pre-event reception will be held in the same location from 5:00–5:30 pm. All are welcome!
Where: Humanities 250
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About the Lecture

How will artificial intelligence reshape higher education? How should students, faculty, administrators, and policymakers respond to the transformative effects of large language models that sometimes appear to write, talk, and maybe even think like humans? In this lecture, one of America’s foremost commentators on AI and higher education, Hollis Robbins, addresses the challenges and opportunities facing universities in the twenty-first century.

About the Speaker

Hollis Robbins is a Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she was previously the Dean of the College of Humanities. She was Dean of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University from 2018 to 2022. She is a specialist in American and African American literature and, for two decades, has served as the Co-Director/Managing Editor of Harvard University’s Black Periodical Literature Project. She received her BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MPP from Harvard University, an MA from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a PhD from Princeton University. She writes the newsletter Anecdotal Value.