Why Did We Build A Research Assistant for Academic Leaders?
Every Academic Leader has two things in common: the to-do list is long, and there’s not enough time in the day to cross everything off. Academic Leaders are tasked with increasingly complex jobs with an expanding set of responsibilities, and that means they have to know more, do more, and be more efficient than ever before. The Association for Academic Leaders was created because we know how critical and complicated your work is, and we’re dedicated to getting you the learning, resources, and community you need to thrive.
And that’s why we built the Association Research Assistant: to get you to the learning, resources, and community you need faster and more effectively.
Our Research Assistant has access to everything the Association has produced since its founding. That includes the content of every course, every webinar, every newsletter and article. That’s more than 5 million words about the topics you care about, including Generative AI, hiring, inclusion, and leadership. When you ask the Research Assistant a question, you’ll get a brief answer that directs you to the big ideas you need to consider, and you’ll get links to relevant courses, articles, and videos that can get you the details you need.
Let’s ask our Association Research Assistant a question. Here’s what you’ll get:
In a few seconds, our Association Research Assistant combs through all the relevant information in those 5 million words. The resources give you a starting place for your work, which could include reading an article from our library, or taking an online course to prepare for introducing a new schedule–both linked here.
There are also some things the Association Research Assistant isn’t designed to do. It won’t design a schedule for you, or write a letter for you, or create an outline for a slide deck. At the moment, our Research Assistant has access only to Association resources, so it won’t gather research or data from other sites or sources. We know that Academic Leaders ask the best questions, and that might mean you’ll ask a question the Research Assistant can’t answer yet. If that happens, we’ll use your question to help us understand what the Research Assistant needs to know, and how we can improve it.
At the Association for Academic Leaders, we embrace iteration. As you’re using our Research Assistant, we’re still refining it. This is version 1.0. We’ll be making changes based on how Academic Leaders use this tool. We’ll be adding to the research library, and teaching the research librarian how to answer your questions more effectively. We’ll continue making changes, because we know you’ve still got a long to-do list–and with our new Association Research Assistant, we hope you can check things off a little faster.
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