Call for Participants: Idaho AI Higher Education Leadership Team 2025-2026

Applications Due Wednesday, April 9, 2025

We are excited to announce the next phase of the Office of the State Board’s support for teaching and learning in AI-impacted higher education. For the upcoming academic year, this initiative will be led by one Statewide AI Higher Education Lead and eight institutional AI Higher Education Catalysts, all serving on the statewide AI Higher Education Team.

This networked approach fosters innovation in teaching with generative AI, equipping educators to critically engage with emerging technological challenges. By strengthening collaboration, the statewide AI Higher Education Team will promote the scholarship of teaching and learning in this evolving landscape.

The Statewide AI Lead will facilitate creative networking and professional development across the eight public post-secondary institutions in Idaho. The Lead will:

Co-lead (with Board staff) the state AI Higher Education Team as a group of engaged colleagues seeking to amplify best practices, challenge collective assumptions, and engage in critical inquiry into generative AI as it impacts teaching and learning.
Ensure that current statewide efforts are supported and amplified through facilitating regular remote professional development workshops, continuously modifying the Guide to Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence, and providing regular communication to those interested in AI in higher education via the AI Google Group or other means.
Lead the revision of and dissemination of the Idaho’s Shared Principles statement and any other relevant statewide materials.
Collaboratively support the AI Institutional Catalysts in their efforts.

The Lead will be provided with $14,000 to support course reassigned time over the 2025-2026 academic year.

Eligibility and Application:

Applicants for the Lead position must:

Be currently employed at one of the eight public post-secondary higher education institutions within the state.
Have demonstrated interest in and prior engagement with generative AI and its applications to teaching and learning.

Applications are due Wednesday April 9, 2025

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The AI Catalyst serves as the connector between statewide leadership and their own institutions. Although the Catalysts do not need to be in official AI-related leadership positions at their home institutions, they do need to know who those institutional AI leaders and committees are and how to regularly interact with them. The Catalysts will work in close collaboration with the Statewide AI Lead, the Office of the State Board staff, and with each other. Catalysts will share strategies and ideas from their institution while also bringing back statewide ideas to their institution. Each Catalyst will be expected to:

Participate as a contributing member of the AI Higher Education Leadership Team.
Contribute to the statewide professional development plan and facilitate or co-facilitate at least one statewide workshop.
Develop at least one professional development opportunity at their institution (a guided discussion (in person or remote), a workshop, a book clue series, or something else similar).
Regularly share updates from the AI Higher Education Leadership Team to their institution.

Institutional Catalysts will be provided with a $2000 stipend for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Eligibility and Application:

Applicants for the Institutional Catalyst position must:

Be currently employed at one of the eight public post-secondary higher education institutions within the state.
Have demonstrated interest in and prior engagement with generative AI and its applications to teaching and learning.

Applications are due Wednesday April 9, 2025

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