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CALI-Undergraduate is a collaboration between Macaulay Honors College’s Teaching and Learning Collaboratory and the CUNY Graduate Center’s Critical AI Literacy Institute.  CALI-Undergraduate will select 10 Macaulay students to train as peer educators in AI. The student program will mirror the faculty work established in CALI.  Peer educators will participate in a reading group and develop an AI literacy campaign aimed at CUNY undergraduates.

The reading group will meet biweekly in Spring 2026 to cover important topics in AI including: critical thinking and cognition, bias and fairness, privacy and surveillance, creativity, environmental impacts, responsibility, and classroom practices. Peer educators in training will also have the opportunity to interact with CALI faculty fellows, learn about their work, and test prototypes. Outside of a traditional instructor-student model, the CALI undergraduates will be able to have frank conversations with faculty about their understanding of and uses of AI. We welcome all, from AI mavericks, skeptics, and refusers alike to create robust discussion and learning space. Students from all majors are welcome.

The opportunity carries a stipend of $2000 for Spring 2026. Applications are due January 12, 2026.

Leaders include Lisa Brundage, Director of Academic Affairs at Macaulay; Luke Waltzer, GC Teaching and Learning Center Director and CALI PI; and Andre Fludd, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Macaulay Teaching and Learning Collaboratory. For more information, contact Lisa Brundage, lisa.brundage@mhc.cuny.edu.