George Fox University recently launched a comprehensive initiative to help faculty and staff explore how to integrate Generative AI (GenAI) into higher education. The effort brings together educators, technologists, and mentors, including Cascade Insights® CEO Sean Campbell, to share ideas, build confidence, and shape how GenAI can be used thoughtfully across disciplines.
Sean’s involvement includes teaching two GenAI-focused business courses and supporting a series of faculty workshops and mentoring activities designed to help instructors integrate GenAI approaches into course design, classroom activities, and assessment.
At its core, the initiative aims to do more than introduce new tools. It focuses on helping both faculty and students strengthen the human skills that GenAI can’t easily replace: critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and the ability to evaluate outputs for bias and hallucination.
Faculty GenAI Integration: Workshops and Mentorship
The university’s program blended structured workshops with one-on-one mentoring, giving faculty space to explore how GenAI could enhance teaching and learning.
This combination of collaboration, experimentation, and individualized guidance helped faculty apply GenAI meaningfully within their own disciplines.
Core Workshop Topics
Each workshop addressed a key challenge in higher education’s rapid adaptation to GenAI:
- Getting Ready for Fall – This opening session introduced what was possible with Generative AI, covering tools and capabilities that had often launched just days or weeks before. Faculty became familiar with and experimented with leading edge GenAI models, image and video generation tools, agentic AI, and AI based workflow tools. Ultimately, this session set the stage for the series as whole by helping faculty understand the fast-moving GenAI landscape and how it could fit into their teaching.
- Developing a New Course with GenAI – This session explored how to use GenAI to design a new course or significantly update an existing one. Faculty learned to adapt curricula for an AI-enhanced world and incorporate GenAI into assignments, projects, and learning activities that foster engagement and creativity.
- GenAI-Resistant Assignments – Faculty examined how to design assignments that encourage originality and critical thinking. These exercises resist surface-level GenAI outputs by requiring personal perspective, reflection, synthesis, and deeper contextual understanding — ensuring students continue to build the skills that define human learning.
- Grading and Assessment in a GenAI Era – The final workshop addressed how to fairly evaluate student work when GenAI may play a role. Faculty shared methods for adapting rubrics, recognizing responsible GenAI use, and rewarding critical thinking and originality.
Courses Bringing GenAI into Practice
Alongside the faculty initiative, Sean teaches courses at George Fox University that help students apply Generative AI responsibly and effectively in business settings. These courses complement the university’s broader efforts by giving students a structured way to explore how GenAI is reshaping work across industries.
GenAI for Business: Ethical Integration and Practical Application
This course examines how Generative AI transforms roles across marketing, sales, creative work, development, executive leadership, and market research. Students learn to define the boundary between human and machine — identifying which tasks are best suited for GenAI, which require human expertise, and which benefit most from collaboration. By the end, they understand how to apply GenAI ethically and effectively in real-world business scenarios.
Transforming Work via GenAI
This hands-on course gives students the opportunity to act as GenAI consultants. Working with a real organization, they assess workflows, identify where GenAI can add value, and develop actionable recommendations that align technology with business goals. The experience helps students bridge theory and practice, connecting cutting-edge capabilities with everyday challenges.
Fluid Intelligence®: Developing the Human Edge
Across all of these initiatives, a consistent theme emerges: Generative AI works best when guided by human insight.
At Cascade Insights®, we call this Fluid Intelligence® — the human understanding that gives GenAI its direction and meaning. GenAI can generate options, ideas, and even creative approaches, but only people can interpret those outputs responsibly, align them with organizational goals, and ensure they reflect shared values.
A B2B Connection
This education effort at George Fox mirrors the same passion that drives our work at Cascade Insights®: helping organizations understand and leverage Generative AI with clarity and confidence.
Our AI Implementation and Training Services follow that same philosophy. We don’t deliver one-size-fits-all training; we combine education, mentorship, and strategic insight to help teams build both technical fluency and human judgment.
Because at Cascade, we believe GenAI adoption isn’t just about technology — it’s about teaching people how to use it thoughtfully and purposefully.
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If you want to move beyond generic GenAI training, Cascade Insights® can help. Explore our GenAI Implementation and Training Services to see how we help organizations build both the technical skills and human insight they need to succeed in an AI-enhanced world.