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    <Title>When AI Gets in the Way: Designing for Struggle in the Age of the Helpful Assistant</Title>
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  <Title>Refusing Generative AI in College Writing Instruction</Title>
  <Tagline>12-1pm Wednesday, February 11, 2026  online</Tagline>
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  <Title>Webinar: Teaching in the Age of AI, Strategies for the new classroom</Title>
  <Tagline>7:00-8:00 pm EST Tuesday January 13, 2026, online</Tagline>
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  <Title>The AI-Assisted Educator: A Course Design Sprint</Title>
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    <Title>Webinar: Generative AI for Graduate Students and Post Docs, 12/5</Title>
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    <Title>AI After Dark: Free AI Essentials Workshop 11/19</Title>
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    <Title>Talk: Wikipedia from the World: Grounded Articles from Any Source, 11/24</Title>
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  <Title>The Privacy Paradox of GenAI: What It Knows, Why It Matters, and How We Fight Back</Title>
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