“Embracing AI” Keynote

C. Edward Watson, a UMF Spring ’26 Libra Scholar, will be presenting a keynote address, “Embracing AI as Essential Learning: Preparing Students for Life Beyond College,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 12:30-1:30 p.m., in Lincoln Auditorium, in the UMF Roberts Learning Center. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Watson is the vice president for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the purposes of higher education.

In his keynote, he will discuss how generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think and create.