Sam Jay

Thinking Out Loud: Dispatches on AI and Higher Education

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*Thinking Out Loud* is a podcast about AI and higher education, hosted by Sam Jay and Larry Sampler from Metropolitan State University of Denver. Each episode is a real-time conversation about what generative AI is doing to universities, what it is asking of faculty and staff, and what the work of leading through it actually looks like from the inside. This is not a show about AI hype or AI fear. It is a show about figuring it out. Sam and Larry lead MSU Denver's AI strategy and serve as advisors to the university's senior leadership team. Together they walk through the conversations, decision...

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Sam Jay

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How To Eat an Elephant 18.06.2026 57:17

In episode three of Thinking Out Loud, Sam Jay and Larry Sampler recap their presentation to the MSU Denver Board of Trustees, subsequent discussion, and the work to be done over the summer as faculty, staff, and students prepare for a new academic year. Have any question, comments, ideas, or feedback? Email us at ai@msudenver.edu .

Briefing the Board 28.05.2026 1:00:31

In episode two of Thinking Out Loud, Sam Jay and Larry Sampler work through how they are preparing to brief the MSU Denver Board of Trustees on the university's AI readiness work. They open with a round of fact or fiction, testing each other on a set of recent AI stories that range from useful to alarming to flat-out strange. The point is not the trivia. It is the reality that President Davids...

Getting Started 13.05.2026 36:45

In the inaugural episode of Thinking Out Loud, Sam Jay, Executive Director of Digital Learning and AI Strategy, and Larry Sampler, former COO and now Special Advisor to the President, sit down to introduce the show and the work behind it. Sam and Larry trace the backstory that brought each of them to leading AI at Metropolitan State University of Denver, a public, open-access university serving 18...