“…Though AI originated in 1987 by Cooperrider and Srivastva as an action research method within organizational development, it has evolved and been applied in many other contexts. Within higher education, AI has been used in areas such as pedagogy (Bush & Korrapati, 2004;Calabrese, 2006;Neville, 2008), research methods (e.g., Giles & Alderson, 2008;Giles & Kung, 2010;Lewis & Emil, 2010), leadership development (Hart et al, 2008), appreciative education (Bloom et al, 2013), appreciative advising and coaching (Bloom et al, 2008;Helens-Hart, 2018), curriculum development (Bester, 2011;Chacko, 2009), strategic planning (He & Oxendine, 2019;Priest et al, 2013), experiential learning (Priest et al, 2013), course evaluations (Kung et al, 2013), academic program development (Priest et al, 2013), graduate student professional development (Falk et al, 2020), and diversity and inclusion programming (Alston-Mills, 2011).…”