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GenAI Assignments and Workplace Readiness

Equipping Students with AI Skills for Professional Success

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • English – First-Year Composition
  • Student Success
  • First Year Experience
  • Introduction to Communication
  • Business Communication
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Career Readiness
  • Composition Lunch & Learn
  • 45 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

As generative AI becomes a routine part of professional work, educators are increasingly asked to prepare students for workplaces that expect both AI fluency and sound judgment. This session explores strategies that help students practice using AI in purposeful ways without potentially sacrificing critical thinking skills or academic rigor. Leave with concrete ideas for aligning classroom work with real-world expectations.

About Your Speaker

  • Kristi Girdharry -

    Kristi Girdharry

    Kristi is an Associate Teaching Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts where she teaches required writing courses as well as advanced electives such as “The Rhetoric of Social Media” and “Writing with Robots: Authenticity, Ethics, and AI.” At Babson, she also co-leads the Babson Writing Study, a longitudinal interview project on student learning and writing development and is working with the school’s new Doctor of Business Administration program.  

    Kristi is one of the founding faculty members of Babson’s interdisciplinary AI lab, The Generator, and has led numerous faculty development initiatives on AI and teaching including workshops, symposia, and cross-institutional training programs. Her work emphasizes practical, values-driven approaches to AI integration that center learning and intentional design rather than tool adoption alone. Nationally, she reviews for various journals related to writing pedagogy and serves in leadership roles with the MLA and Conference on College Composition and Communication. Last year, she helped lead a team in updating the AI statement from the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum.

    Her scholarly work on generative AI can be found in College Composition and Communication, Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, and Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing, and you’ll find some of her public-facing pieces via Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Lastly, her forthcoming book, Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education (co-authored with Chris W. Gallagher and Kevin G. Smith), grows out of her longstanding work in teaching and higher education and will be published by MIT Press later this year.