Events

The Preservation Committee meets monthly.

This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.

Contact CARLI Support for attendance details.

As artificial intelligence becomes an essential skill across academic and professional settings, community colleges are uniquely positioned to prepare students for responsible and effective AI use. This webinar will guide educators, instructional designers, and academic leaders through the process of developing a comprehensive AI training course that can be delivered in multiple formats, including in-person, hybrid, and fully online self-paced learning environments. 

Participants will explore practical strategies for designing engaging and scalable AI instruction centered on three core focus areas:  

• Building Effective Prompts: Teaching students how to communicate clearly with AI tools to generate high-quality, accurate, and useful outputs. 
• Ethical Use of AI: Establishing guidelines and best practices for responsible AI use, including academic integrity, bias awareness, transparency, fact-checking AI tools and digital citizenship. 
• Assessment: Developing meaningful assessment strategies that measure student learning, critical thinking, and AI literacy while maintaining academic rigor.  

Attendees will leave with actionable frameworks, curriculum ideas, and implementation strategies for creating AI learning experiences that meet the needs of not only today's diverse community college students, but also students across all instructional modalities. 

Register to attend.

Hosted by FLVC 
 

While libraries are traditionally academic hubs, they are also potential open spaces for student engagement and socialization. Post-pandemic, students spend less time on campus and even when on campus, they prefer solitude over peer-to-peer interaction. In an era of significant budget cuts and rising commuter student populations, college libraries face a unique challenge: how do we continue to serve our communities in new and impactful ways? A team of subject-liaison librarians from public service units sought to bridge this service gap and created events in support of student community engagement. With no prior history of student programming and no dedicated budget, the librarians launched a semester-long series of social events with a focus on building community and fostering connection. 
 
These events included trivia nights, scavenger hunts, game nights, and finals week: study breaks. We will share takeaways on securing funding, leveraging our existing resources, addressing unexpected and continuing challenges, and documenting the impact of the events based on our experiences at a public R1 university with a large commuter population. 

Register to attend.

Hosted by FLVC 
 

In-person event to be held at Elgin Community College.

Much more information and registration coming soon.