Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
stzipf.bsky.social
Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
@stzipf.bsky.social
Avid knitter, sometimes swimmer, scholar of higher ed (personal thoughts and feelings)
I presented our work @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social on Monster Theory and AI to a class of undergraduate students. They share a lot of the same fears as faculty around authenticity in education.

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AI Monsters: An Application to Student and Faculty Knowledge and Perceptions of Generative AI
Research into perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) by faculty and students outside of specific disciplines has been relatively sparse. With the recent release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there...
www.igi-global.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We held a gathering of K-12 teachers and librarians, administrators, higher ed faculty, and policy makers in September to talk about #AI in #ruraleducation. The final report is now available here sites.psu.edu/fair/
@drtiffpetricini.bsky.social
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sites.psu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎉 Happy to announce a new publication.
The price of productivity: Burnout and technostress in academic library workers
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authors.elsevier.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Question for #Academicsky - what academic profiles are the best to build? Research Gate, Web of Science, ORCID, Google Scholar....? I feel like there's so many and not enough information about what is actually useful or meaningful.
June 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New pub - check it out!

"Even though instructors’ responses show they are exhausted and have limited time to keep up with technology changes, they are seemingly immune to techno-insecurity and undeterred by techno-complexity."

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Technostress and Its Influence on Instructors’ Technology Use | Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
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April 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our new piece on Generative AI and Information Inequity, presented at iConference 2025 with @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social and Chuhao Wu

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Using the information inequity framework to study GenAI equity: analysis of educational perspectives | Information Research an international electronic journal
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March 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
By your's truly, a publication - Examining Inclusivity in Flexible Learning Spaces: Expectations, Comfort, and Distractions

doi.org/10.1007/s107...
Examining Inclusivity in Flexible Learning Spaces: Expectations, Comfort, and Distractions - Innovative Higher Education
Historically, classrooms have utilized stationary furniture, facing front toward a centralized instructor position, and limiting student-to-student interactions. Such classrooms often stem from design...
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
"OPM agreements are not regulated...to protect
students’ educational rights...this makes OPM contracts fundamentally different from other outsourced technical solutions"
@stzipf.bsky.social et al starting the year off strong with an online students' bill of rights:
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ticas.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
And our fourth paper published today: "Online Students' Bill of Rights" @ticas-org.bsky.social

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ticas.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Happy to share our third paper -"Financial Flows to Online Program Managers: Making 'Sense' of the Convoluted Arrangement"
ticas.org/accountabili...
@ticas-org.bsky.social
Financial Flows to Online Program Managers: Making "Sense" of the Convoluted Arrangement - The Institute for College Access & Success
ticas.org
January 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Our goal is to establish a dynamic community of practice that will challenge and positively shape the future of AI in education."
aieou.web.ox.ac.uk/node/4111406
January 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our piece "Perceptions About Generative AI and ChatGPT Use by Faculty and Students" was recently published in Transformative Dialogues @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social journals.psu.edu/td/article/v...

While data for this study was collected in '23 findings from our '24 study show similar perceptions
journals.psu.edu
January 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
Attention educators (K-Higher Ed)! 📢 January 20th—The Three Rivers Education Technology Conference in Pittsburgh has amazing sessions! I’m excited to present my workshop: De-mystifying AI in Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #ProfessionalDevelopment #Teachers #LifelongLearning #EducationConference
TRETC 2025: De-mystifying AI in Education: Practical...
View more about this event at TRETC 2025
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December 31, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
Our findings align with those below: Faculty, staff, and librarians seem largely unconcerned about jobs, but students are extremely worried. How can we help them feel more secure for their AI-saturated futures? @stzipf.bsky.social #StudentVoices #edusky #aied #BlueskyThoughts #ResearchInsights
December 6, 2024 at 12:45 AM
An interesting point about the difficulty students have navigating these tools under multiple policies.

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
Is Grammarly AI? Notre Dame says yes
The rapid introduction of generative AI has created a wild west of policies at colleges, complicating the use of long-standing editing and writing tools.
www.insidehighered.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Please to share a new publication:

The intersection of internationalization efforts and diversity, equity, and inclusion: The case of U.S.-based international branch campuses.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
November 6, 2023 at 5:05 PM