AI and the Common Good: What's to Be Done?
05/10/26 12:28
Friday, October 23 |12:00-2:00 PM
Loop Campus and Zoom
Free and open to all. Box lunches and refreshments provided for in-person participants.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping work, public life, and how decisions get made. A growing chorus, from Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica humanitas to AI researchers calling for a slowdown in development, is asking whether AI is serving the common good and how it can be aligned with human values. The DePaul AI Institute invites you to a lunchtime roundtable to begin that conversation.
Invited speakers from across the university will open with brief reflections, and then the discussion opens to everyone in the room and on Zoom. We will explore three broad themes:
This is the first event in a series, and we hope you will help shape where it goes next. Details and the full program will be posted at https://blogs.depaul.edu/ai-institute/ai-and-the-common-good-whats-to-be-done/
Loop Campus and Zoom
Free and open to all. Box lunches and refreshments provided for in-person participants.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping work, public life, and how decisions get made. A growing chorus, from Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica humanitas to AI researchers calling for a slowdown in development, is asking whether AI is serving the common good and how it can be aligned with human values. The DePaul AI Institute invites you to a lunchtime roundtable to begin that conversation.
Invited speakers from across the university will open with brief reflections, and then the discussion opens to everyone in the room and on Zoom. We will explore three broad themes:
- Concentration of power: A few companies control the computing power, models, data, and platforms behind advanced AI. What does that mean for work, public life, and who benefits?
- Alignment with human values: Whose values, and decided how? What would responsible AI development require?
- What's to be done: Which proposed remedies could work, who can act, and what role should a university play?
This is the first event in a series, and we hope you will help shape where it goes next. Details and the full program will be posted at https://blogs.depaul.edu/ai-institute/ai-and-the-common-good-whats-to-be-done/
AI in Marketing Certificate Program: 2026
12/01/26 19:56
Hello! I will be teaching one of my favorite courses again in 2026 – The AI in Marketing Certificate Program.
There are a few changes for the New Year:
- Offered now via DePaul Executive Education
- Five weeks rather than six weeks.
- 6-8PM (rather than 6-9PM)
I will still be offering this in Flex – you can attend in-person or remote via Zoom. Broadly speaking, I will be covering the same topic areas, but the content has significantly changed (and will probably change again as the course is being taught). Lots of cool activities and practical examples that you can leverage in your work and beyond. If you have questions, drop me a line.
- Tuesdays: 2/17/2026 - 3/17/2026
- Wednesdays: 5/20/2026 - 6/17/2026
More info here.
New Copilot Features
28/10/25 22:50
Information Services disabling Zoom Docs
14/10/25 09:24
Information Services will be disabling the Zoom Docs feature across our Zoom environment tomorrow, Wednesday, October 15th.
Their goal is to maintain a secure and consistent collaboration experience by standardizing on Microsoft 365 tools - including OneDrive and SharePoint - for storing and sharing university data.
What’s Changing?
Zoom Docs will no longer be available in meetings or outside of them. You will not be able to create or collaborate on Zoom Docs through the Zoom app or during Zoom meetings.
This change does not affect your ability to use Zoom for meetings, webinars, chat, or access your existing recordings.
What You Need to Do
If you’ve created or collaborated on Zoom Docs in the past, please review your content and move anything you still need to a supported platform such as:
To transfer your content, simply open your Zoom Docs and copy the information into a Microsoft 365 document then saved in your personal OneDrive or other support platform.
The Docs interface will be unavailable starting Wednesday, October 15th. Contact Information Services for help retrieving any important content afterwards.
Their goal is to maintain a secure and consistent collaboration experience by standardizing on Microsoft 365 tools - including OneDrive and SharePoint - for storing and sharing university data.
What’s Changing?
Zoom Docs will no longer be available in meetings or outside of them. You will not be able to create or collaborate on Zoom Docs through the Zoom app or during Zoom meetings.
This change does not affect your ability to use Zoom for meetings, webinars, chat, or access your existing recordings.
What You Need to Do
If you’ve created or collaborated on Zoom Docs in the past, please review your content and move anything you still need to a supported platform such as:
- OneDrive – for personal work files and small group sharing
- SharePoint – for team or departmental content
- Shared network drives – for centrally managed storage
To transfer your content, simply open your Zoom Docs and copy the information into a Microsoft 365 document then saved in your personal OneDrive or other support platform.
The Docs interface will be unavailable starting Wednesday, October 15th. Contact Information Services for help retrieving any important content afterwards.
Welcoming Erin Kasprzak to the Driehaus College of Business
30/07/25 10:27
A quick note for Driehaus College of Business faculty and staff: Josh Lund is no longer the Driehaus College of Business contact for course development and course redesign. Josh still works for the Center for Teaching and Learning (he provides Flex training for the college) but Erin Kasprzak is your new contact for course development and course redesign.
Erin Kasprzak is an Assistant Director of Instructional Technology and Program Development and a Learning Experience Designer at DePaul's Center for Teaching and Learning. In addition to regularly teaching her own online asynchronous course, she brings over a decade of experience in learning experience design to her support roles. She is excited to begin supporting the Driehaus College of Business in addition to her ongoing work with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the College of Science and Health, and the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. Her research interests include Universal Design for Learning and the intentional implementation of academic technology.
Erin Kasprzak is an Assistant Director of Instructional Technology and Program Development and a Learning Experience Designer at DePaul's Center for Teaching and Learning. In addition to regularly teaching her own online asynchronous course, she brings over a decade of experience in learning experience design to her support roles. She is excited to begin supporting the Driehaus College of Business in addition to her ongoing work with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the College of Science and Health, and the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. Her research interests include Universal Design for Learning and the intentional implementation of academic technology.