10 – 11 a.m., November 30 | Powell 186
Writing-intensive courses across the curriculum — which are highly exposed to AI misuse — present unique challenges and opportunities for transformation. To succeed in today’s AI-integrated workplaces, students need advanced writing, reading and editing skills. This seminar will introduce Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR), a human-centered, award-winning curricular model designed to build critical AI literacy while simultaneously improving equity in writing support for students. Findings from the PAIRR project— tested with thousands of community college, CSU, and UC Davis students in 2025-2027—will also be shared.
Presenter Bio
Marit J. MacArthur teaches writing and serves as AI & Emerging Technology coordinator for UC Davis’s Writing Center. She is a PI for the PAIRR (Peer and AI Review + Reflection) project and co-investigator with the Center for AI and Experimental Futures (CAIEF). Marit’s work on AI and writing — which builds on her NEH-funded interdisciplinary research in voice studies — has appeared in AI & Society, Computers and Composition, Inside Higher Ed, Bad Ideas about AI and Writing, and Frontiers in Communication. She is a GenAI and Writing in Higher Ed series editor for Critical AI and pedagogy lead for the UC Humanities Research Institute AI Lab.