The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) hosted its signature professional development event of the year, welcoming faculty for a timely and engaging conversation on Teaching with AI led by Dr. José Bowen.

As CVCC’s central hub for professional development, CITL serves all four schools by creating opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and shared learning. While each school maintains its own mission, events like this reflect the college’s collective commitment to strengthening teaching and learning as one institution.

The event brought faculty together to explore how artificial intelligence can be effectively integrated into teaching practices. Dr. Bowen shared practical insights, research-based perspectives, and real-world examples that encouraged participants to rethink traditional approaches to instruction while keeping student connection and learning outcomes at the center of the conversation.

This event builds on the momentum of CITL’s official launch during the October 2025 professional development days, when faculty gathered at the Workforce Solutions Complex to learn with and from one another. Looking ahead, CITL continues to expand its professional development offerings, including upcoming sessions focused on teaching strategies for supporting students with disabilities.

Through these events, CITL remains focused on supporting educators, fostering collaboration, and advancing innovative teaching practices that benefit students across the college.

About Dr. José Bowen

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 45 years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College. Bowen worked as a musician with Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, and many others and his symphony was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1985). Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford and has written over 100 scholarly articles and books, including the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), Teaching Naked (2012 and 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 (2024; 2nd edn 2026) with C. Edward Watson. Bowen has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, has three TED talks, and he has presented more than 500 keynotes and workshops in 47 states and 24 countries around the world. In 2010, Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar and in 2018 he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award for significant contributions to American higher education and is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities. He lives in Dallas and also does innovation and inclusion consulting for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies.