Log In
ACUE Logo

Celebrating 10 Years
of Teaching Excellence

Main Menu
add-to-car-icon.png

Webinar: AI and Higher Education Preparing Students for a New World of Work

Webinar: AI and Higher Education Preparing Students for a New World of Work

Date: August 25th, 2023

Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST

Date: August 25th, 2023

Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST

Overview

Join us for an hour-long moderated discussion featuring Paul LeBlanc’s predictions of upheavals in the world of work and higher education, Erika Burk’s real-world assessments of responses to Generative AI in business and industry, and Rolando Garcia’s projections of likely changes required in college strategic planning, management and academics in response to the pathbreaking new catalog of Generative AI tools.  

Assumptions

The extraordinary media coverage of ChatGPT’s emergence has included, indeed featured, dire projections of resultant upheaval (1) in American business, industry and professions, (2) in the higher education programs that prepare students for related employment, and (3) in management, services, curriculum and instruction in colleges and universities.
In this restive environment, college leaders, faculty and staff are seeking to understand the likely impact of Generative AI tools on their institutions and on their own professional standing.

REGISTER NOW

Proposed Outcomes

  • Participants will learn how Generative AI tools are now impacting jobs in business, industry and the professions and how they might further impact the workplace in the near term.
  • Participants will learn about planned and executed curricular and instructional responses to the arrival of Generative AI tools.
  • Participants will become familiar with emerging strategies to optimize leadership functions, program management and instruction using ChatGPT4 and like tools. 
Erika Burk

Dr. Erika Burk

Vice President, Human Resources

Porsche Cars North America, Inc. 

Dr. Erika Burk Bio

Dr. Erika Burk is Vice President, Human Resources for Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), headquartered in Atlanta. PCNA is the importer of Porsche sports cars, the Macan and Cayenne sport utility vehicles and the Panamera sports sedan, for the United States.

As Vice President, Human Resources, Burk is responsible for human resources for all entities in North America including overseeing the implementation of the human resources operating plan, compensation and benefits, talent acquisition as well as management and development.

Prior to joining Porsche, Burk was Senior Director, Human Resources for WACKER Chemical LLC, where she was the first employee of the $2.5 billion start-up chemical plant.

Bio
Paul LeBlanc

Dr. Paul LeBlanc

President

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU)

Dr. Paul LeBlanc Bio

Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc is President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and author of Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education and Broken: How our Social Systems are Failing Us. Under the 20 years of Paul’s direction, SNHU has grown from 10,000 students to over 180,000 learners and is the largest non-profit provider of online higher education in the country. Paul immigrated to the United States as a child, was the first person in his extended family to attend college and is a graduate of Framingham State University (BA), Boston College (MA), and the University of Massachusetts (PhD). From 1993 to 1996 he directed a technology start up for Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, was President of Marlboro College (VT) from 1996 to 2003 and became President of SNHU in 2003.

Bio

Dr. Rolando García

President

North Hennepin Community College

Dr. Dr. Rolando García Bio

Dr. Rolando García was named president of North Hennepin Community College by the Board of Trustees of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities on July 1, 2020. García is a compassionate leader with an accomplished record of promoting diversity and championing underserved students through visionary and transformational leadership. 

Bio

Privacy Policy

Terms and Conditions

Statement of Accessibility

View Cart
Checkout