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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