Originally scheduled for Jan. 22, 2025, at Capstone, the AI Symposium has been modified, and we will now host the Thinking and Teaching with AI workshop with Dr. José Antonio Bowen on March 24, 2025, at 2 p.m. in the USC Conference Center (8th floor, Close-Hipp Building).
Dr. Bowen, a renowned scholar and educator, will share insights on AI’s role in shaping the future of teaching, learning and industry practices. The workshop will provide practical strategies for integrating AI effectively into professional and academic settings.
The Industry Panel originally planned as part of the symposium will be rescheduled for a later date.
For any questions about the event, please contact Dr. Erica Lake at erlake@mailbox.sc.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!

About Keynote José Antonio Bowen, Ph.D.
José Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown, was Dean at Miami and Southern Methodist University and President of Goucher College. He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of Teaching Naked (2012, the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021) and Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning with C. Edward Watson (2024). Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 400 campuses and conferences in 46 states and 20 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education). He is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities and also does innovation and inclusion consulting for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies.