For relaunch in summer-fall 2025, TaP will operate as a summer workshop and fall calibration in which faculty build new materials on AI literacy and subsequently deliver them. The program has two phases: 1) Tritons as Partners: Summer Catalyst and 2) Tritons as Partners: Fall Calibration. Interested faculty will be asked to complete an application form as spots are limited to 15 faculty with an $800 stipend.
Interested but not sure what it looks like for your discipline? Check out these ideas:
- Biology: Students use AI to summarize research they present and refute about a biological phenomenon; use AI to analyze genomic data for students to identify genetic markers.
- Philosophy: Faculty create a chatbot that plays the role of the opposition as students defend a philosopher's worldview.
- Nursing: Students learn to use AI notetaking software to provide better patient-centered care. Students can cFaculty prompt AI to act as a patient and the class discusses care options based on its responses. Students can feed symptoms into a chatbot and evaluate the accuracy of the results
- Honors: Students use AI to streamline the research and writing process: citation help, editing, and outlining.
- Computer Science: Students can write code in groups and then use AI to help formulate ideas to create "clean code."
- Math and Physics: Faculty use AI tools to help students visualize complex equations. Students write hypothesis equations and test them using AI software.
If you are a faculty member looking to integrate AI literacy into your courses or to develop AI skills for students within your discipline, we encourage you to apply!
What benefits do faculty experience when working with a student partner?
Working with a student partner can offer new and innovative opportunities for faculty in the classroom and beyond:
- Student perspectives of material in formative ways
- Assistance with creating innovative techniques
- Help to adopt new methods or technologies
- Inclusive, equitable learning environment
- More engaging class
- Better quality feedback during the course or in end-of-course student feedback surveys
- Turning learning into a publishing opportunity
- Develop a greater understanding, appreciation, and empathy for students
- Evidence of commitment to student success used in professional materials
Tritons as Partners: Summer Catalyst and Fall Calibration
Faculty who apply and are selected will participate in two phases of the program. These phases include working with a student partner to design/revise coursework related to building student AI Literacy skills in the summer, and the faculty will continue collaborating with their student partner in the fall to implement the work co-created during the Summer Catalyst.
Tritons as Partners: Summer Catalyst
Over six weeks in the summer, faculty and student partners will work together to design and refine a deliverable that incorporates AI skills for students in their fall course(s). This deliverable can range from an assignment or assessment to a learning module. Faculty and students will meet regularly as cohorts and in teams to work and present their material. Throughout this phase, the CTL offers workshop guidance and input from faculty fellows as TaP faculty and student partners collaborate on their material.
Tritons as Partners: Fall Calibration
During Fall 2025, faculty teaching a course will implement the ideas created during the Summer Catalyst. The student partner role will shift from a consulting partner to a feedback partner. The student will observe and provide feedback to the faculty on the AI-related course activities at different points in the semester. During the fall, student partners receive training from the CTL on observing courses, writing, and delivering feedback.
Contact Information
For more information, contact the Tritons as Partners program coordination team:
