Calendar
Friday, September 19
Hours: 7:30AM - 7PM
–ZSR Library, Faculty Commons Classroom 665Friday, September 19, 9:30am-12:00pm, ZSR 665, Facilitator: Karen Spira and a panel of WFU Students.
Throughout 2025, media outlets such as the New York Times and the New Yorker have published tell-all accounts of college students who outsource reading and writing assignments to AI, as well as professors who use AI tools to create course materials and grade student work. These provocative articles, while informative, stoke distrust between students and instructors. It is time to have a different kind of conversation about AI, one that centers our reality at Wake Forest and is driven by curiosity and a desire to understand our students’ experiences as pioneers in an educational landscape being remade by generative AI.
In this workshop, participants will:.
Interact with a panel of students as they reflect on the pressures, dilemmas, temptations, frustrations, and opportunities of being a student in the age of AIEngage in small-group consultations with students, colleagues, and the staff of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, addressing difficulties related to AI that they are navigating in their teachingLeave with a more nuanced understanding of what students need and want from their instructors in order to thrive in this new environment.
–ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)Tobacco has played a significant role in shaping North Carolina’s cultural, economic, and social identity, even before the state’s official establishment. Early depictions of Native American communities along the coast at the end of the 16th century show cultivation and use of the plant.
During the 19th century, tobacco became a cornerstone of the plantation economy, generating immense wealth for select families. In the 20th century, the rise of mass production and commercialization, along with an expanding labor force dedicated to its cultivation and processing, further embedded tobacco in North Carolina’s way of life. Marketing campaigns and iconic imagery tied to tobacco are deeply woven into the state’s historical narrative.
This exhibit showcases images, artifacts, and records from Special Collections & Archives, spanning from the sixteenth century to the modern era. It also features contributions from North Carolina artists and photographers, including Daisha Bunn and Erin Kye and their families, as well as works by photographer Dan Routh.