About this Event

This panel discussion will explore the differences in how faculty and students perceive and use artificial intelligence. As AI tools become more prevalent, students and faculty may approach their use with varying levels of enthusiasm, comfort and concern. While some view AI as a tool for enhancing learning and efficiency, others may question its role in education, particularly in terms of academic integrity and teaching effectiveness.

This panel will bring together faculty members and students to explore these differing viewpoints. We’ll dive into how each group perceives AI, the concerns that exist, and what it takes to find common ground. How can AI be integrated into the classroom in ways that support both effective teaching and meaningful learning? Join us for an open, collaborative conversation where we’ll share ideas, tackle challenges and look at how AI can truly enhance education for everyone.

 

This student-created seminar will be presented by: 

Mansi Gupta, Graduate Student: mansi@udel.edu

Karan Kota Raju, Graduate Student: kkraju@udel.edu

Prachi Rao, Graduate Student: prao@udel.edu

Meghana Medapati, Graduate Student: mmeghana@udel.edu

Dominic Muriuki Muriungi, Graduate Student: domie@udel.edu

Peter Gachuka Ndagi, Graduate Student: pndagi@udel.edu

Mark A. Serva, Associate Professor of MIS: servam@udel.edu

 

Panelists

 

Student Panelists

Brian Carbjal.  Brian is a Senior double majoring in Financial Planning and Marketing and serves as the current Chairperson for the Lerner Student Advisory Board. He has served in a variety of roles on campus from Student Life & Communications to Residence Life & Housing and has enjoyed the opportunities to work collaboratively with students, staff and administration. Through his internships, which range from customer relations to wealth management, Brian has observed firsthand the increasing integration of AI in the business industry.

Isabella Haigney.  President of UD Student Government Association

 

Faculty Panelists

 

Matt Kinservik is a Professor of English at UD, where he has taught since 1997. He has served as Graduate Program Director and Chair of the Department of English, Associate Dean for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. He is a member of UD’s Working Group on AI for Teaching and Learning and is also serving as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board’s (SREB) Commission on AI in Education. The SREB is a non-profit organization focused on education policy and advocacy in the sixteen states in the Southeastern U.S. (Delaware to Texas). The two-year commission aims to chart a course on how artificial intelligence is used in classrooms and how to prepare people for a workforce being transformed by technology. The commission is chaired by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and co-chaired by former Silicon Valley CEO Brad D. Smith, president of Marshall University in West Virginia.

 

Persephone Braham is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Delaware. Her research is on monsters and monstrosity in Latin America, and she also teaches Latin American film, urban space and power, sex & gender in Latin America, and Caribbean cultures. Commentator Joseph Pierce described her book From Amazons to Zombies as ‘An accessible and super generative study of how monstrosity—including the cannibal—was a trope used by European colonizers because they were idiots.'

With her colleagues in Spanish, Meghan McInnis-Domínguez and Meghan Dabkowsi, Braham is developing a certificate program on AI for the Humanities.

 

Anu Sivaraman is an assistant professor of marketing and Director of the Lerner Diversity Council (#LDC) at the Alfred Lerner College of Business, University of Delaware. Anu's primary research interests include examining how counterfactual thinking (CFT) impacts consumption patterns and studying the impact of various factors on nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Her research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Behavior, Journal of Consumer Affairs, and Advances in Consumer Research. At the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, she teaches undergraduate and graduate marketing and introduction to business courses. Anu was the recipient of the Department of Business Administration’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2015, the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics Outstanding Service Award in 2022-2023, Outstanding Teacher Award for 2012-2013, and the UD Faculty Senate Commendation for Service in 2011. Under her leadership, the Lerner Diversity