The title of a recent academic article from Fu et al. (2026), “Everyone’s using it, but no one is allowed to talk about it”: College students’ experiences navigating the higher education environment in a generative AI world,” perfectly encapsulates the culture of shame, fear, and secrecy around AI that exists at many campuses, including Lewis & Clark. This session will draw on insights from a qualitative analysis of the AI Community Dialogues to help participants better understand the culture of AI at Lewis & Clark. In addition, this session will offer participants practical ideas and strategies for fostering an AI culture grounded in openness, curiosity, listening, learning, collaboration, and critical reflection.
References
Fu, Y., Lin, Y., Wang, Y., Tran, S., & Hiniker, A. (2026). “Everyone’s using it, but no one is allowed to talk about it”: College students’ experiences navigating the higher education environment in a generative AI world (arXiv:2602.17720v1). arXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17720
