The 2025 ALAIR Conference took place from March 12-14, 2025, at Coastal Alabama Community College and Columbia Southern University. Jessica Carroll of the Alabama Community College System served as the conference chair and chose the theme "Blue Skies Ahead," which focused on projecting optimism. The conference hosted over fifty attendees and featured more than twenty concurrent sessions on various topics, including Generative AI, pathways for agriculture students, best practices for fostering academic optimism, tracking student progress, utilizing analytics to enhance student-centric operations, and leadership lessons from the Apple TV show Ted Lasso. The keynote speaker was Russ Bartlett, a US Navy pilot and former commanding officer of the Blue Angels.
