José Bowen
January 07, 2026
José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, pedagogy and D&I consulting and training in both higher education and for Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, Toyota, and Walmart.
As a scholar, Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities), has written over 100 scholarly articles, was editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), and an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). He received a National Endowment for theHumanities Fellowship and has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates. In 2010, Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar.
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AI Literacy and Liberal Education Keynote (Wednesday, February 4th from 5:30p to 6:30p in Cohen Student Union, Room 201)
AI is already changing human work, perspectives, thinking and creativity and might be the fastest change to writing in human history. AI is changing average, which creates an opportunity to raise standards. AI is also a new form of labor and you and your students will now always be an AI boss. Using AI well, however, involves two staples of higher education: asking better questions and evaluating answers. Reframing AI literacy in this way leads to a plethora of new assignments where we can teach both writing and critical thinking while using AI in a way that raises standards rather than replacing human agency.
Teaching with AI Workshop (Friday, February 6th from 12:00p to 2:30p in the Cohen Student Union Ballroom)
2nd Edition of Teaching with AI
This practical session will help you discover what AI can do for you (lit reviews, grant applications, communication, accreditation reports, student support and faster grading?) All assignments are now AI assignments, so we will consider a broad range of new assignment techniques (including writing). Understanding which tasks will need human quality will be critical for new curriculum and engaging students; we can and must both reduce cheating and raise standards. We will explore a wide variety of new assignment designs including AI custom bots. Bring a laptop and to learn how AI improve your work-flow and teaching, while giving you more time for the rest of your life.
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