All Seidman faculty are welcome to an FLC conversation on the implications AI and CHATGPT have for classroom pedagogy and the education of business students. The discussion on the 29th will feature Corewell executives:

The three of them will begin our conversation by letting us know how they are implementing AI in healthcare, and then we'll open it to questions and comments.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023
SCB 4002 - 4th Floor Board Room
12:00-1:00pm
Lunch will be provided
RSVP to dewildem@gvsu.edu by November 15 to attend.

Our 2023 Executive-in-Residence, Dr. Alejandro Quiroga, President of Corewell Health West, will be speaking to graduate students, faculty, and community members Wednesday, November 8, on lessons he has learned since taking the helm at Corewell.

Dr. Quiroga is trained as a pediatric nephrologist and is the former Chief Medical Officer at Corewell. He has been instrumental in transforming primary care, reducing costs, and improving patient outcomes. 

He describes his mission as catalyzing transformation and prioritizing a culture of humanity, accountability, and simplicity through high-performing teams. 

NYU Professor Jonathan Haidt, author of The Coddling of the American Mind, among other works, gave a controversial talk at Duke University in 2016 arguing that a university can have only “one telos,” or purpose, and that we find ourselves in an age where the traditional purpose of a university – the pursuit of truth – is being eclipsed by another “scared value,” that of social justice. While of course not opposed to social justice, Haidt does conclude that in the end making it the central value of a university is harmful to all involved. He implicates that pursuit in a number of ills, among them plummeting trust in universities and the erosion of academic freedom. Three GVSU professors and administrators take up Haidt's argument in this webinar.

Andrew Spear, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, GVSU.

Dwayne Tunstall, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, GVSU.

Alisha Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President for the Social Justice Centers and Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, GVSU. 

Michael DeWilde, is the KBEI's director, and a professor of Management. He moderated. 

Part two of our series will feature a conversation with Anthony Kronman, the former dean of Yale's Law School. Kronman is the author of The Assault on American Excellence, a New York Times Editor's Choice book. The webinar is forthcoming Winter 2024.