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<div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Academic Affairs <vpaaetal@tamuc.edu><br>
<b>Date:</b> December 22, 2025 at 7:33:04 AM CST<br>
<b>To:</b> vpaaetal@mailman.tamuc.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[VPAAEtal] Professional Development Opportunity</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> Academic Affairs <vpaaetal@tamuc.edu><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could the email below please be sent to faculty?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Vanessa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon colleagues<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">An interesting professional development opportunity from Elon University is available to faculty across all disciplines. Please see the email below from Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning. There is a link at the end of the email
 that provides more information about the Research Seminar and how to apply. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. 
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 for Engaged Learning at Elon University</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"> is pleased to announce the 2026 – 2028 Research Seminar on
<b>Rethinking Engaged Learning in the Age of GenAI</b>. This three-summer research seminar facilitates multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as a tool for fostering engaged learning in higher education.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020">We invite interested scholars and practitioners, regardless of discipline, to apply to join a multi-institutional cohort of researchers collaborating to investigate:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">What higher education learning entails in the age of GenAI;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly;align-self: start">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">GenAI’s (potential) role as a collaborator in teaching and learning;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly;align-self: start">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Decision processes for when and how to use GenAI as a collaboration partner;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly;align-self: start">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Assessing learning in an age of GenAI support; and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly;align-self: start">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Professional learning needs and strategies for students, faculty, and staff to support critical GenAI literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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 the full call for applications to learn more.</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#007C89"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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