AI @ SJSU Academic Affairs Update | June 18, 2026

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.

During the summer, the AI @ SJSU Academic Affairs Update will be distributed monthly rather than biweekly. Wishing you a great summer!

What’s New

This conference brings together academic research with real-world AI implementation. CSU-AI Applied AI Research Conference precedes the AI4 Conference, which welcomes more than 10,000 industry professionals from around the world for an exciting three-day event focused on the future of artificial intelligence across industries and sectors. This is an opportunity for academic researchers to connect directly with industry leaders and strengthen the research pipeline in applied artificial intelligence education, including strategy, decision-making, human implications, and organizational implementation. Submissions accepted through June 30. Click Here For the Submission Form

Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI, and of critical discussion concerning the implications for digital humanities pedagogy. Send abstracts to editors@digitalhumanities.org using the subject header: “DHQ AI Pedagogy Special Issue.” See the full CFP at the DHQ site for more information.

Resources and Trainings

SVLG and the Institute for California AI Policy released the Agentic AI Glossary, the second installment of the Future of Innovation Series. The Agentic AI Glossary defines 70 key terms across deployment, governance, security, infrastructure, and technical concepts. The aim is to give policymakers and civic stakeholders a common foundation for understanding one of the most consequential emerging areas of AI. Agentic AI gives systems the ability to interpret goals, carry out multi-step tasks, use tools, and act across digital and, increasingly, physical environments. 

This report has a strong focus on the impact of AI on teaching and learning. This year’s report also debuts a new section called “Signals of Change” that also features AI, including “Evolving use cases for AI technologies” and “AI governance and trust.”  Get the report

This free guide helps students develop the unique human capabilities needed to thrive in an AI-driven world. Developed by AAC&U and Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, in partnership with The Princeton Review, this field guide helps students strengthen essential human capacities including ethical judgment, communication, critical thinking, adaptability, and self-awareness. Get the free report. 

Artificial intelligence is reshaping core practices in literary and language studies, and scholars are responding along a continuum from refusal to cautious experimentation to sustained methodological adoption. This webinar introduces AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship, a framework developed by the MLA's AI and Research Working Group to support informed, principled engagement with emerging AI technologies.  See more about MLA Free Webinars.

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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