From the operating room to the Navy, from canvas to the page, Gerald Stulc brings his lifelong passion for learning and teaching to the Academy for Lifelong Learning.

We’re inviting Skidmore College and Rockford University students and faculty to join a small-group, AI-guided discussion focused on the possibilities and risks of a new constitutional convention.

When Skidmore College political science professor Beau Breslin invited first-year student Prairie Gunnels to explore what a U.S. Constitution written by Generation Z might look like—with help from ChatGPT—it sparked a groundbreaking experiment in civic imagination.

What if the U.S. Constitution were rewritten every generation?In a thought experiment that began in 2010, Beau Breslin explores Thomas Jefferson’s vision of generational renewal—culminating in a bold call for a constitutional convention.

He envisioned more poetry and campus walks when he attained emeritus status, but instead answered a spritiual call to compassion and justice and founded the Saratoga Immigration Coalition.