CHARISM Conference: Schedule at a Glance
Schedule at a Glance for the CHARISM Map of Hope Symposium. Subject to change. Please check back for updates.
Day 1: Thursday, October 22, 2026
Day 1 Schedule: Thursday, October 22, 2026
| Time |
Event / Session Details |
| 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm |
Welcome and Opening: Collaboration, Hope, and Transformational Teaching and Learning |
| 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 1: From AI Disclosure to Formation: Using Student AI-Use Documentation as Charism-Centered Assessment in Catholic Higher Education
- Session 2: CHARISM & International Education through the Lewis Center Fellowship Program
|
| 1:50 pm – 2:20 pm |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 3: Forming Scientists as Stewards of Creation: Integrating CUREs in Biology through Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Laudato Si'
- Session 4: Growing AI-Ready Faculty Through Peer-Led Professional Development
|
| 2:40 pm – 3:10 pm |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 5: Stuff That (mostly) Works for Underprepared Students
- Session 6: Pedagogy of Belonging and Vocation
|
| 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 7: “Teach Me, I Dare You…” Building a Coordinated Engagement Ecosystem for Gateway Mathematics
|
| 4:05 pm – 4:35 pm |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 8: Support Undergraduate Reading: Strategies for Across the Disciplines, First Year to Graduate
|
| 4:40 pm – 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks/Preview of Day 2 |
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Day 2: Friday, October 23, 2026
Session Descriptons
Day 2 Schedule: Friday, October 23, 2026
| Time |
Event / Session Details |
| 9:00 am – 9:50 am |
The Catholic University: Mission, Formation, and the Common Good
- Universities’ Challenges and Possibilities in the 21st Century: Pope Leo XIV and St. John Henry Newman in Dialogue
- Doing Theology through the Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Civic Education Project for Gen Z
|
| 9:55 am – 10:25 am |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 1: Race, Migration, and Identity in Mediterranean Europe: Our Experience Developing a New Study Abroad Curricular Model
- Session 2: Teaching Climate Change: Addressing Hopelessness and Despair
|
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 3: Sacred Spaces: Using Digital Humanities to Connect Community and Universities
- Session 4: AI as Assistant and Data Analyst: Cultivating and Measuring Student AI-Resilience in Capstone Writing
|
| 11:10 am – 11:40 am |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Session 5: Information Is Not Formation: Storytelling and Human(e) Ways of Knowing
- Session 6: From Service to Solidarity: The CHARISM Approach to Community-Engaged Learning
|
| 11:50 am – 12:40 pm |
AI and Higher Education: Two Perspectives
- Grade Inflation in H-E-B School of Business and Administration
- Corazón — Do You Hear Me, HAL? A Quasi-Comprehensive Look at Artificial Intelligence-from the Big Questions to What We Can Do With It Today
|
| 12:50 pm – 1:35 pm |
From a Map of Hope to a Shared Agenda: A Conversation with the CHARISM Provost |
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