Using Generative AI Tools for Your Future Classroom
December 6, 2025
9 a.m. - Noon
Breakfast, Workshop and Discussion
Facilitator: Vishal Sachdev
Campus Instructional Facility (1405 W. Springfield Ave. Urbana), Room 1035
$150 Amazon gift card and 3 PDH credits available
The Office of the Chancellor and The Forum on the Future of Public Education will co-host this workshop, which will focus on:
- Equipping teachers to apply AI tools to augment their unit plans
- Writing lesson plans with AI that are grounded in Illinois content standards
- Designing formative and summative class assignments with generative AI
Thanks to the Office of the Chancellor for assisting The Forum on sponsoring this event.
Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments by Russell Weinstein, Assistant Professor, UIUC Labor Employment Relations and Economics
Education building, Room 333
Event Type: Lecture
This paper studies whether human capital investments are based on local rather than national demand, using three shocks with differential local effects: the dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, and the shock making Delaware a financial headquarters. Event-study analyses show universities more exposed to sectoral shocks experience greater changes in sector-relevant majors. Using students' home and university locations and nearest-neighbor matching, this paper develops a test for whether information frictions explain this local elasticity, separately from migration frictions. Information frictions do not appear to explain the result. Findings are consistent with migration frictions, implying encouraging investments based on national demand may increase mismatch.
Contact: Jennifer Delaney
delaneyj@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Higher Education Collaborative