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Learning Faster Than the System: A Student’s Perspective on AI with Ronan Shultz

In this episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Ronan Shultz, a finance student at the University of Utah, to explore how students are actually usin...

AI as a Thought Partner: Orly Fuhrman on Designing Learning for the Human Mind

In this episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Orly Fuhrman—adjunct professor at NYU, cognitive scientist, and learning experience designer—to expl...

From AI Talk to AI Practice: Tawnya Means on Helping Faculty Actually Use AI

In this episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Tawnya Means, Founding Partner of Inspire Higher Ed, to explore what it really takes to move AI adop...

Episode 50: AI, Motivation, and What School Is Really For — A Conversation with Zia Hassan

For our 50th episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, we’re stepping back to ask a bigger question: What is school actually for in an age of AI?Zia Hassan—educator, prof...

AI as a Thought Partner: Rethinking Ethics, Integrity, and Learning in Higher Education

In this episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Kyle Atkins—AI strategist, ethical innovation leader, and PhD candidate in Higher Education Administ...

A Special Episode: Inside BoodleBox’s “Sensible Car” Approach to AI in Education

This special episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast features a conversation from inside the BoodleBox team. Zach sits down with Reilly Stanton, Lead Data Scientist at B...

AI, Intellectual Character, and the Cost of Shortcuts — A Conversation with Christian Carmody

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Christian Carmody, a doctoral researcher at the University of New Hampshire, to explore one of the m...

AI Is Not the Shortcut: Peter Harris on Reps, Rigor, and What Makes Graduates Unreplaceable

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach is joined by Peter Harris to unpack a hard truth about AI in education: tools don’t replace mastery—practice does.P...

Dr. Michelle Kassorla on Inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching for Thinking in the Age of AI

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Michelle Kassorla to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping pedagogy, assessment, and what...

Dr. Jose Bowen on Teaching with AI: When Knowledge Is Free and Thinking Is the Work

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Jose Bowen, author of Teaching with AI and longtime higher-education leader, to explore one of the m...

Judith Cardenas on Leading Through AI: Guardrails, Courage, and Embracing Ambiguity

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Judith Cardenas, a higher-education leader and consultant who has been working on AI strategy long b...

AI, Equity, and Rural Education: Matt Newlin on Leveling the Playing Field

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler is joined by Matt Newlin, a higher education consultant with over 20 years of experience in financial ...

Intelligence Having Fun: Pravin Kaipa on Creativity, AI, and Rethinking Assessment

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler sits down with Pravin Kaipa to explore creativity, artificial intelligence, and what it truly means to...

Technology Doesn’t Change Education — Teachers Do.

This week, I sat down with Dr. Betty Chandy, Director of AI & Technology Enhanced Learning Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education...

The Fingerprint of Learning: Austin Levinson on AI, Critical Thinking, and the Future of Education

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler is joined by Austin Levinson, an award-winning international educator with over two decades of teachin...

Curiosity as a Competitive Advantage: Luca Caniato on AI, Education, and the Future of Work

n this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler talks with Luca Caniato, an 18-year-old freshman at CU Boulder studying finance and management informat...

Relevance, Relationships, and Reinvention: Scott Carr on Reimagining Education Through AI

In this Smarter Campus Podcast episode, host Zach Kinzler sits down with Scott Carr, a veteran educator with over 30 years of experience transforming classrooms for st...

AI as the Third Person: Galen Ziegler on Transforming Nursing Education

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Galen Ziegler, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Harford Community College, to explore how AI is qui...

From Resistance to Reinvention: Mike Kentz on Redefining Education in the Age of AI

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler talks with Mike Kentz, founder of Zentex Educational Advisors and former middle and high school teache...

From Video Games to the Classroom: Michael Curtin on Translating AI for Higher Education

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, host Zach Kinzler sits down with Michael Curtin, Innovation Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty in Informatics at the Univer...