This page gathers Clark's work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, writing, and higher education pedagogy — including open curriculum available for adoption, collaborative projects, and presentations with full slide access.
OER Curriculum: Growth Mindset and Generative AI
Co-created with Casandra Silva Sibilin as Module 4 of the CUNY Learning Mindsets curriculum, this module maps the evolving landscape of generative AI in higher education and explores how it might deepen our commitment to growth mindset learning.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/lg_oers/133/
OER Curriculum: Textual Transformations: An Introduction to AI for Composition 101
This AI critical literacy curriculum provides a comprehensive, structured, and accessible approach to AI education designed specifically for introductory composition students. Created for the 2024–25 CUNY Building Bridges of Knowledge Program, funded by the Lumina Foundation, it supports students in using generative AI ethically and responsibly.
Unlike AI literacy programs focused primarily on coding or technical skills, this curriculum centers critical thinking, ethical considerations, and AI's role in writing and academic life. The nine-lesson, 20-hour unit moves from foundational knowledge through practical application and ethical reflection — accessible to students with no prior AI background.
What's covered:
Prepwork: Preliminary Assessment and AI Policies
Lesson 1: What is AI?
Lesson 2: The History of AI
Lesson 3: How Does AI Work?
Lesson 4: AI in Action
Lesson 5: Academic Integrity and AI
Lesson 6: Ethics and AI
Lesson 7: Society, Medicine, Business, and Education: The Current AI Landscape
Lesson 8: The Future of AI
Lesson 9: Writing and AI
Post-Assessment and Reflection
Each lesson includes source exploration, inquiry-based assignments, small group discussion, whole class discussion, and low-stakes writing. Three high-stakes essays and a revision/reflection essay are embedded at the end of Lessons 2, 5, 8, and 9.
How to access: Google Slides Curriculum or CUNY Academic Works
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. Faculty may adopt it in full or in part with attribution. To cite: "Textual Transformations: An Introduction to AI for Composition 101" by J. Elizabeth Clark is licensed under CC BY NC 4.0.
OER Curriculum: First Year Seminar GenAI Literacy Modules
Edited modules & developed the website the First Year Seminar GenAI Literacy Modules. This OER Curriculum features The collection includes four modules, designed to build on one another across the semester.
AI Leadership at LaGuardia
As Co-Lead of LaGuardia's AI, Pedagogy & Curriculum Initiative, Clark has worked since 2024 to build the infrastructure for thoughtful, equity-centered AI integration across the college, including co-leading a team through the 2025-2026 AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum, designing LaGuardia's inaugural AI Institute: Navigating AI At LaGuardia: Shared Map, Different Lines, developing LaGuardia’s AI Resource Hub, co-writing Using GenAI at LaGuardia: A Student Guide, establishing an AI Advisory Council, and securing $25,000 in funding for institutional AI framework development. For the full scope of this work, see her CV.
Presentations & Slides
“Growth Mindset Meets Generative AI: Reimagining AI Use Through Student-Centered, Ethical Practice,” with Casandra Silva Sibilin and Mari Watanabe-Rose. AAC&U Annual Meeting (January 2026). Slides
“Growth Mindset and Generative AI: A Student-Centered, Ethical Framework,” with Casandra Silva Sibilin, Mari Watanabe-Rose, and Weiheng Sun. CUNY IT. (December 2025). Slides
"Growing with AI: How AI Can Support Growth Mindsets," with Casandra Silva Sibilin. CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy Teaching Matters Series on Generative AI (April 2025) Slides
"Building Bridges of Knowledge: Supporting, Elevating, and Leading Through Example," with BBK Disciplinary Leads and Humanities Faculty. CUNY Teaching and Learning Conference (April 2025) BBK Overview — Humanities Working Group
"Supporting Students' Ethical Use of AI: Ideas and Practices in Humanities and STEM Fields," with Karan M. Puri. CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy Teaching Matters Series on Generative AI (November 2024) Slides
"Inside the CUNY Building Bridges of Knowledge Generative AI Project," with Milena Cuellar, Daniel Boudon, and Maria Savva. LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Conversations (November 2024) Slides