The AI @ SJSU Academic Affairs Update shares highlights of SJSU’s AI-related activities across campus to support knowledge sharing, planning, and collaboration among campus leaders.
Please complete this form to contribute AI-related news, events, or other updates for inclusion in future issues of AI @ SJSU Academic Affairs Update. Send your feedback to Sandy Hirsh, Special Assistant to the Provost for AI Initiatives: sandy.hirsh@sjsu.edu.
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- "Managing the Public Interest in the Era of Rapid Technological Change" | Fireside Chat with Lili Gangas of the Kapor Foundation and James Regan of Clutch | 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Registration Link
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"Human and Nonhuman Cognition: A Functional Framework" | Closing Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles | 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Registration Link
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Fill Out the Second Annual CSU AI Survey | Open now through October 19 | CSU AI Survey
SJSU students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in the second annual CSU AI Survey, which examines how generative AI is shaping the CSU campus community and what needs and opportunities should inform future planning. The anonymous survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Whether or not you currently use AI in your classes, office, research, or laboratory, your perspective is welcome. Participants who choose to provide their information may be eligible for a CSU-wide prize drawing.| Learn more about the survey and view the SJSU Executive Summary of the Fall 2025 AI Survey. | Contact: csuaisurvey@sjsu.edu.
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- OpenAI Announces Planned Retirement of Custom GPTs
CSU’s retirement date has been extended until February 11, 2027.
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Anne Marie Todd to Lead PIT-California Regional Hub
Anne Marie Todd, dean of the College of Social Sciences and professor of communication studies at San José State University, will lead the forthcoming PIT-California Regional Hub. PIT-California will coordinate efforts across disciplines and campuses in support of public interest technology in curriculum, co-curricular programming, career development, and research. Todd recently published “Reframing the AI Narrative: A Call for Social Sciences and Public Interest Technology”.
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- SPPES Professor Dustin Mulvaney Contributes to AI Report
SJSU Professor Dustin Mulvaney of the School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies co-authored AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet. The report examines the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and data centers across the United States, including their environmental, economic, and social impacts. The authors call for a people- and planet-centered approach to public investment that prioritizes clean energy, housing, transportation, education, dignified jobs, and other socially beneficial infrastructure.
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- Amazon Research Awards (ARA) | Submission Deadline: November 4.
Researchers are invited to submit proposals for the Fall 2026 Call for Proposals (CFP) across nine high-impact research areas: Agentic AI, AI for information security, Amazon security, Automated reasoning, AWS cryptography, Build on trainium, Multilingual and contextual AI evaluation, On-device multimodal perception, Synthetic data generation for multimodal perception. | FAQs for more specific program information. | CONTACT Amada Petel if you are interested in applying
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- SJSU Students Mentor and Support Small Business Owners at OpenAI Workshop
On August 27, OpenAI hosted an AI literacy and workforce development workshop for small business owners in San José. Six SJSU students served as AI mentors, working alongside the OpenAI team to provide hands-on support and guidance to nearly 100 business owners and other participants. | Read more
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- Teach with AI: Teaching Smarter with Google AI Tools | October 21, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. | MLK Library AI Center and Online/Zoom
The Teach with AI series offers hands-on, faculty-led workshops focused on applying AI in teaching practice. In this session, Dr. Gema Vinuales, Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Business Analytics, will lead a workshop exploring how Google AI tools can support teaching and learning. Register for Teach with AI sessions.
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- CSU Workshop 3-Part Workshop Series: Fully Online, Fully Human: Asynchronous Teaching and Learning in an AI World | Next Series Offering: 10/27, 11/3, 11/10 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Register.
This three-part interactive CSU workshop series will help faculty create more connected, engaging, and human-centered asynchronous courses. Participants will bring an online course and explore frameworks, assignment-design strategies, and approaches for strengthening instructor and student presence in the age of AI. The next available workshop series occurs on the following dates (UPDATED DATES): Tuesdays, October 27, November 3, and November 10, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Space is limited. View the webinars and register.
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- Creative Futures Digital Toolkit: Guidelines for Teaching and Practice with—or without—Generative AI
Design faculty Dana Ragouzeos, Leila Ensaniat, and Marjan Khatibi have created the publicly available Creative Futures Digital Toolkit to help students and faculty make informed decisions about how, when, and why to use generative AI—or not. The toolkit includes tiered generative AI-use guidelines, project examples, case studies, analyses of generative AI tools, and research insights. Developed through hands-on collaboration with more than 350 SJSU Design students and faculty, the project was supported by a 2025 CSU AI Educational Innovations Grant. | Contact Dana Ragouzeos.
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- BoodleBox Pilot for Faculty
SJSU is participating in a pilot program for BoodleBox, a collaborative AI platform that provides access to multiple AI models within a single secure workspace. The platform allows instructors to control which models or bots students use for a particular assignment and to review students’ AI interactions throughout the process. Faculty can explore the Vibe Assignment Architect and complete the AY 2026–2027 BoodleBox Pilot Interest Form.
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- FOR STUDENTS: Writing and Generative AI Workshops | SJSU Writing Center
The SJSU Writing Center’s “Writing and Generative AI” workshops introduce students to generative AI platforms and considerations for using them during different stages of the writing process. Upcoming sessions include:
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- Monday, October 19, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. — Register
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Thursday, November 12, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. — Register
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What belongs in the DNA of New Technology? An AI and Ethics Workshop. | October 13, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Digital Humanities Center | Register | FREE EVENT
This interactive workshop, which opens the College of Humanities and the Arts ai-et Speaker Series, will be led by Larry Medsker, editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics Handbook and co-founder of the journal AI and Ethics. The workshop will explore how human values can be built into an AI system’s architecture rather than added afterward. A short presentation will be followed by small-group work on real cases on Agentic AI and Accountability and Generative AI in Writing, Journalism, and Schools that bring humanities, technical, and industry perspectives into direct conversation.
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Rage Baiting and Border Crossing: How AI/LLMs complicate Translation. | College of Humanities and the Arts ai-et Speaker Series | November 3rd, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. | MLK 225 | FREE EVENT
Rage bait prompts audience engagement by provoking anger. Torsa Ghosal’s talk compares “rage bait” narratives about border crossing generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) in two different languages: English and Bengali. Because LLMs are incapable of registering the cultural codes embedded in language, their mis-translations create problems, especially for non-English languages. Join us to discover how the spread of LLMs is impacting translation, migration narratives, and the preservation of world languages.
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Questions? Contact Sandy Hirsh at sandy.hirsh@sjsu.edu.
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Sandy Hirsh
Special Assistant to the Provost for AI Initiatives
San José State University
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