Presenter: Lance Eaton
Host: Jim Gasperoni
Location: Virtual (a Zoom link will be sent a few days before the event)
Date: Wednesday, April 15th 2026
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
This discussion will name some of the challenges and complications that AI has brought to job-seekers and people pursuing careers, along with the new questions career development professionals are having to navigate for their clients and themselves. While many questions abound, there still exist possibilities that this session will also explore by considering what hasn’t changed and what new opportunities arise in this moment for the work ahead.
More about our Expert Speaker
Dr. Lance Eaton is the Senior Associate Director of AI in Teaching and Learning at Northeastern University. He has earned a Master's in American Studies (UMASS Boston), Public Administration (Suffolk University), and Instructional Design (UMASS Boston). He completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education (UMASS Boston) with a focus on academic piracy and how scholars navigate the privatization of research literature in the 21st century.
His work engages with the possibility of digital tools for expanding teaching and learning communities while considering the profound issues and questions that educational technologies open up for students, faculty, and higher ed as a whole. He has engaged with scores of higher education institutions about navigating the complexities and possibilities that generative AI represents for us at this moment.
His musings, reflections, and ramblings on AI and Education can be found on his blog: https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
