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EduMAX 2025
Creativity and AI literacy are among the most sought-after skills in today’s job market. During this event, we explored how equitable access to future-ready creative and AI tools helps students engage more deeply with their learning, solve complex problems, and communicate their ideas with impact.
Now or Never: Higher Education at the AI Crossroads
October 7-9, 2025
Adobe Founders Tower, San Jose CA 95113
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Generation AI on Campus
Join us for an engaging, hands-on, in-person event series designed to empower academic communities with the tools, insights, and strategies needed to navigate this transformative landscape.
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Last Event: Preparing Higher Education Students for Career Success in the Age of Gen AI
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Adobe Express + Firefly Series
Join us in this webinar series to discover how higher education leaders and faculty can use new creative and generative AI technologies to reimagine assessments, boost student engagement, build career readiness, and more.
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Last Event: Beyond the Plagiarism Panic: Rethinking Learning and Leadership in the Age of AI
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Adobe Higher Education Events
As AI continues to reshape creative industries, students in the arts and design fields need future-ready skills that balance technical expertise with creative expression. Find out how top higher education institutions are using Adobe Creative Cloud to catalyse this transformation.
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Last Event: Why Generative AI Skills Belong in Every Creative Curriculum
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Digital Literacy Café Series
The Digital Literacy Café webinar series provides academic leaders with various perspectives on preparing students for success in the modern economy.
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Last Event: Showcasing Inspirational Student Work Amplified by Generative AI
How Higher Education Leaders can Navigate an AI-driven Future
Explore Inspiring Student Work Amplified by Generative AI
Connecting AI Literacy, Learning Outcomes, and Career readiness
Explore One Student’s Journey from Creativity to Career Success
How Higher Education Leaders can Navigate an AI-driven Future
Explore Inspiring Student Work Amplified by Generative AI
Connecting AI Literacy, Learning Outcomes, and Career readiness
Explore One Student’s Journey from Creativity to Career Success
Preparing Higher Education Students for Career Success in the Age of Gen AI
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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AI is transforming education and the workforce. Is your institution ready?
Watch our exclusive on-demand webinar designed for Provosts, Pro Vice-Chancellors, leaders and decision makers. Gain actionable strategies to enhance student engagement, academic outcomes, and workforce readiness.
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Peer insights: Hear from an academic leader using AI and Adobe tools to enhance teaching and learning.
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Student outcomes: Discover how generative AI is helping institutions improve learning equity, and support student success, drawing on insights from Adobe’s Future of Learning report.
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Demo: Watch a demonstration showcasing the journey to generative AI creativity, collaboration, and automation.
Leave with a clear vision for preparing faculty, staff, and students for success in an AI-powered world.
This on-demand includes closed captioning.
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Empowering the Workforce of Tomorrow: Creativity and AI Skills for Career Success
September 30, 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving job market, creativity and AI literacy are no longer optional—they’re essential. Watch our engaging on-demand webinar where industry leaders and educators discussed how universities can prepare students to meet the growing demand for creative and AI-driven skills across all fields.
Hear from Wendy Fitch, Head of Creative at H and R Block on why creativity and AI expertise are critical for graduates entering the workforce. Learn from Megan Workmon, Director of Learning Experience at ASU on their campus’s innovative approach to equipping students with these skills, and gain insights from Edelman Research on how graduates can leverage creativity and AI without needing a creative degree.
This on-demand provides actionable strategies for university leaders and decision-makers to bridge the skills gap and empower students for career success.
This on-demand includes closed captioning.
Dr. Megan Workmon
Director of Learning Experience Design for Enterprise Technology, Arizona State University.
Achieving Accessibility: Streamlining PDF Compliance in Higher Education
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Join Adobe and its partners for a dynamic webinar tailored to higher education leaders and decision-makers. Discover practical strategies to meet the DOJ’s 2026 mandate for PDF accessibility and ensure document compliance across your institution.
Learn how automation and cost-effective solutions can simplify your workflows, reduce resource strain, and support inclusive learning environments. Gain insights from real-world implementations at Ohio State University, explore a live demo on creating fully accessible documents in Acrobat, and engage in a fireside chat with industry experts. The session concludes with a live Q&A to address your institution’s unique challenges.
Empower your campus to lead in accessibility, meet legal requirements, and support every learner—regardless of ability.
Cory Tressler
Assistant Dean for Technology and Digital Programs, Ohio State University Libraries.
Beyond the Plagiarism Panic: Rethinking Learning and Leadership in the Age of AI
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
AI is already reshaping the classroom — and for many in higher education, it raises tough questions. Do we ban it? Treat it as cheating? Ignore it and hope it goes away?
This session took a different approach.
Instead of defaulting to plagiarism panic, colleges and universities have a chance to lead by rethinking how AI fits into teaching, learning, and assessment. Our experts looked at how two institutions are embracing AI as a tool for student creativity, critical thinking, and career readiness while still upholding academic integrity.
Watch our on-demand and explore how to design practical, forward-thinking classroom strategies that integrate AI without losing what matters most in higher ed.
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How to use AI to boost student engagement, faculty innovation, and institutional distinction
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Ways to support faculty in building assignments that are authentic, accountable, and intellectually challenging — not easily gamed by AI
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Approaches that empower students to explain, critique, and stand behind their AI-assisted work (just like they’ll need to in the workforce)
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Policy and guidance frameworks that support ethical AI use — from idea development to research support — without going full automation
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Tactics to preserve and promote critical thinking when it’s tempting to let AI take the wheel
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Dr. Shawn Schulenberg
Professor of Political Science at Marshall University, Chair of the Faculty Senate and Co-Chair of the Presidential AI Task Force.
Dr. Justin Hodgson
Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric & Director Digital Gardener Initiative, Indiana University.
Buzzwords to Blueprints: What AI on Campus Actually Looks Like
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
As AI continues to transform higher education, institutions are moving beyond theory to real-world implementation. In this thought-provoking webinar, leaders from Auburn University, California State University Monterey Bay, Adobe, and The Chronicle of Higher Education will share how campuses are adopting generative AI in ways that align with academic goals, enhance student success, and prepare graduates for an AI-driven workforce.
From policy frameworks to classroom innovation, panelists will explore the challenges, opportunities, and actionable strategies that turn AI buzzwords into impactful blueprints for teaching, learning, and institutional growth.
Asim Ali, Ph.D.
Biggio Center at Auburn University
Tara Hughes
California State University Monterey Bay
Dhruva Chandrasekhar
Adobe
Rick Seltzer
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Join our webinar to discover why the next generation needs more than Adobe proficiency—they must master generative AI to stay competitive. As content demand surges, employers want graduates who can deliver high-quality creative fast.
Learn how integrating Adobe Firefly with Creative Cloud empowers students to stand out and meet evolving industry needs.
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What the industry is looking for in today’s creative professionals
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How Adobe Firefly is enhancing our students' craft and making them more employable
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How Adobe is helping our students get their careers started
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Lyndsay Duthie
Pro Vice Chancellor for Academic Partnerships and Industry Engagement, University for Creative Arts
As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes industries and job roles, higher education faces an urgent challenge: preparing students for an AI-enhanced workplace. Employers are increasingly seeking graduates who not only understand AI but can combine AI fluency with digital skills and visual competencies to drive innovation and productivity.
During this Next Office Hour, we'll explore practical frameworks and strategies for integrating AI literacy across disciplines to create a powerful advantage for graduates.
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How combining AI literacy with creative competencies and visual storytelling equips students to solve complex problems across various industries.
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Best practices for empowering students to harness AI as a collaborator, enhancing their creativity and design capabilities to stand out in the job market.
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Creating programs that connect academic learning with real-world AI applications, ensuring graduates have the skills employers demand.
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Building pathways that combine AI literacy, digital fluency, and creative design to prepare well-rounded, career-ready graduates.
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José Antonio Bowen
Co-Author, Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning
Angela Gunder
Chief Executive Officer/Founder, Opened Culture (OEC)
Matthew Kinservik
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Delaware
Connecting AI Literacy, Learning Outcomes & Career Readiness
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
To integrate generative AI across the curriculum, higher education institutions must find meaningful connections between students’ day-to-day academic work, their learning outcomes, and the growing demand for AI literacy everywhere.
This on-demand session explores ways to do that work from the perspectives of both education and industry. Our featured panelists reflected on what measurable skills and learning experiences students need in order to face the future classroom and an uncertain future of work.
They also offered insights into what employers and academic institutions are looking for in terms of integrated approaches to generative AI across the curriculum.
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How innovative institutions in North America approach curricular transformation and career readiness in the age of generative AI
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Strategies to thoughtfully and equitably invite all students to develop AI literacy through learning outcomes shared by all disciplines
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The growing expectations industry stakeholders have for college graduates transitioning to or upskilling in the workforce
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Dr. Megan Workmon
Director of Learning Experience Design for Enterprise Technology, Arizona State University.
Dr. Todd Taylor
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist & Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Shauna Chung
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist and former English faculty, New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
Exploring in-class exercises and lesson plans that integrate generative AI
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
To ensure that our students become critical, ethical, and agile users of generative AI, we need to integrate it into courses in every discipline. In this session, four faculty members shared a dozen successful classroom exercises and lesson plans that engage students and help build transferable skills like creativity and collaboration.
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Practical day-to-day approaches to integrating generative AI in ways that promote student learning outcomes
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Pedagogical principles behind the lesson plans and exercises
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Dr. Wanda White - Walker
Director of the Center for Innovative and Transformative Instruction and an Adobe Thought Leader, CIT Winston-Salem State University.
Dr. Matthew Acevedo
Executive Director of Learning Innovation and Faculty Engagement, University of Miami.
Dr. Daniel Frank
Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program, University of California Santa Barbara.
Dr. Todd Taylor
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist & Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Shauna Chung
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist and former English faculty, New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
Driving student engagement with Adobe Express and Adobe Firefly generative AI
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
After years in learning environments that couldn't accommodate creative, unstructured, exploratory, or even hands-on learning experiences, many of today's college students arrive on campus with a hyper-focus on checklists and grades.
In this session, Indiana University's Professor Justin Hodgson shared how educators can build more meaningful learning experiences — even failure-friendly experiences — that focus on the joy of discovery and integrating digital fluency into the classroom.
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How to shift rote coursework to approaches like “ungrading” that prioritize conversations and the development of skills including creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration
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How to drive engagement with creative projects that challenge students to show what they know
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How students can use Adobe Express and Firefly to craft media they’ll be proud to share while becoming critical, ethical, and agile users of AI
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Dr. Justin Hodgson
Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric & Director Digital Gardener Initiative, Indiana University.
Building student's career-readiness and success with digital badges and credentials
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
To help students succeed in a competitive job market, higher education leaders need to equip students with sought-after skills and ways to showcase them to employers.
Professor Justin Hodgson of Indiana University demonstrated how projects with integrated digital badges can help students articulate their learning and their career-ready skills, supplementing traditional degrees. By combining micro-credentialing with creative digital coursework, educators can help students stand out and land their dream jobs.
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How digital badging programs provide a quick mechanism for students to cultivate real-world career skills
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How digital badging enhances student projects and offers success measures outside of traditional grades
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How badges and credentials can help hiring managers identify that students have both practical skills and growth mindsets
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How self-paced Adobe Express and Firefly badging and credentialing programs align with academic goals and workforce-ready skillsets to help students stand out
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Holly Johnson
Associate Director of Digital Learning Experience Innovation and Outreach, Adobe Creative Campus Thought Leader, University of Utah.
Dr. Brian Johnsrud
Global Head of Education Thought Leadership and Student Success, Adobe.
Dr. Justin Hodgson
Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric & Director Digital Gardener Initiative, Indiana University.
One year later: exploring new policies and guidelines for integrating generative AI across the curriculum
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
At the start of the 2023-2024 school year, thought leaders from four campuses visited the Adobe Digital Literacy Café to share how they established initial guidelines around the use of generative AI in academics. One year later, three schools have gathered and shared how they have evolved their approaches to responsibly integrating the technology across the curriculum — as well as one EDUCAUSE researcher who recently coauthored a report on AI integration in the education sector.
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How they’ve been working to ensure that their students and faculty can benefit from game-changing technology while maintaining academic integrity
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How their new policies and guidelines are designed to help students develop in-demand career skills
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Access to reports, projects, and other materials they’re creating related to generative AI policies and guidelines
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Dr. Todd Taylor
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist & Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Shauna Chung
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist and former English faculty, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
As AI continues to reshape both education and the workforce, higher education leaders need to ensure that their institutions are prepared to reimagine teaching and learning and help students build critical new skills. In our exclusive webinar designed for presidents, provosts, and other senior leadership, our speakers shared actionable insights and success strategies for driving innovation on campus, transforming the educational experience, and sharpening your competitive edge with generative AI.
Our speakers showcased peer-led discussions, thought leadership, and industry research focused on enhancing student engagement, academic outcomes, and workforce readiness.
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Peer insights: Hear from academic leaders using AI and Adobe tools to enhance teaching and learning
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Industry research: Gain insights from leading experts on the future of AI in education
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Student outcomes: Learn how AI is revolutionizing personalized learning and career readiness
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Demo: Watch a demonstration showcasing the journey to generative AI creativity, collaboration, and automation
Watch our webinar and leave with a clearer vision for how to prepare your faculty, staff, and students for success in an AI-driven world.
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Dr. Justin Hodgson
Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric & Director Digital Gardener Initiative, Indiana University.
As demand grows for AI literacy in creative careers, students in creative arts programs need the skills to express their ideas and deliver standout work using both industry-leading apps and new AI-powered tools.
Join us to hear how Adobe is equipping the next generation of creative professionals, faculty and staff with cutting-edge creative technology and responsibly designed, commercially safe generative AI.
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How students can learn industry standard skills for the future
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Ways to amplify students’ originality and create a more engaged campus
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How you can help students become compelling visual communicators in the classroom, their future careers, and beyond with Adobe Creative Cloud
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Showcasing Inspirational Student Work Amplified by Generative AI
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
In our final Digital Literacy Café (DLC) session of the academic year, we featured students who’ve created innovative course projects using generative AI. Coming from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, these inspiring students described their creative decision-making processes and shared their experiences of learning with generative AI tools like Adobe Firefly. Our Café moderators also quickly recapped the previous five DLC sessions to reflect on the ways in which higher education thought leaders and faculty have enabled these students’ success.
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Student perspectives on using generative AI for teaching and learning
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Ideas for redesigning course deliverables to integrate AI tools across the curriculum
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Practical insights for helping all students become critical, ethical, and agile users of emerging technologies
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Nicole Hopkins
Instructional Technology Support Specialist, Academic Technology & Outreach, Montana State University
Lizette Rodriguez
Physics & Astronomy Student & Research Assistant, Society of Physics Students Outreach, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
Dr. Todd Taylor
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist & Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In higher education, most of the conversation about the impact of generative AI has focused on text output for research and writing projects. But what about image generation with AI? Join us to hear how three faculty members shared their diverse approaches to helping their students build essential visual communication skills, increasingly leveraging the power of Adobe Firefly and other generative AI tools.
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How image-based AI tools can facilitate both general AI literacy and practical visual communication for academic work and beyond
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Cross-curricular strategies to engage and empower learners through images, graphics, and creative thinking
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Ways to equip students to become critical, ethical, agile users of visual generative AI, especially in their future careers
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George Garrastegui
Chair of the Communication Design Program, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Dr. Todd Taylor
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist & Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Shauna Chung
Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist and former English faculty, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
From creativity to career success: a student's digital journey
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Nobody knows what the next three-to-five years are going to look like, but skills such as creative thinking, resilience, and digital agility are poised to rise in significance by 2027 — becoming critical indicators of student success.
Join us to discover how you can help your students develop these essential skills. Professor Justin Hodgson of Indiana University showcased how integrating digital creativity into the classroom can increase student engagement and facilitate dynamic learning experiences. By combining low-stakes activities and high-impact practices that center on digital creativity, you can empower your students to develop the skills and knowledge employers need today and in the future.
In this session, Professor Hodgson was joined by a former student who’s navigated the transition from undergrad to industry professional by using creativity and visual communication in the most unexpected ways.
Dr. Justin Hodgson
Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric & Director Digital Gardener Initiative, Indiana University.
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