AI Initiatives and Outcomes Assessment Manager Waubonsee Community College Yorkville, Illinois, United States
Session Abstract: Institutions generate powerful data through applications that track enrollment, financial aid, operations, and student experience. Yet the outputs of these systems often remain inaccessible to non-experts. This Speaker Session explores how artificial intelligence can act as a wrapper, providing plain-language summaries of complex outputs to make insights widely available across campus. Building on these summaries, the framework introduces the idea of specialized chatbots or custom GPTs that could guide deeper, task-specific exploration. Throughout, a guiding principle anchors the session: AI should strengthen—not replace—human connection. Participants will leave with a forward-looking framework for democratizing institutional data, balancing innovation with governance, and ensuring AI adoption fosters dialogue, collaboration, and trust.
Keywords: AI Wrappers, Plain Language Summaries, Specialized Chatbots, Human-Centered AI, Data Democratization
