u/Dinosaur_933

Students don’t see any problem with using AI on their lab reports. They are supposedly writing down words and insight and yet they’re completely clueless when asked about it or needing to use that knowledge for our next lab session. I have spent all semester turning students in after meeting with them to confirm that they don’t understand any of the words they have written (and 90% of them have had previous cases in other classes and do end up admitting to it once I actually open an academic integrity case and they know I’m going to follow through) and I am at my breaking point. Grading our final lab reports now and I just can’t anymore.

I’m switching to oral assessments instead of lab reports next semester. It is going to be a massive scheduling nightmare but I actually think it’s going to take less time. And if they really do start coming in with AI glasses or hearing aids, guess I’m just gonna quit.

40 minutes before grades are due for seniors. This student is a graduating senior who needs the class to graduate. I’m so angry. I gave him so much leniency to deal with family issues all semester.

I have had 12 cases of generative AI use this semester on lab reports. I have been venting to colleagues and this colleague (let's call her Jane) also expressed frustration on my behalf and alarm at the amount of AI use. In general, most members of the faculty no longer trust the students and believe consequences for cheating are not harsh enough to be effective deterrents. Jane is known to be extremely forgiving and permissive of students, but has recently been indicating more frustration at what she is finally seeing as too much cheating.

Jane is also a dean and today I learned that she has been speaking to members of the academic integrity board and telling them that the consequences they are doling out are too harsh. She believes in redemption, apparently without any remediation. I don't know specifically if she is referring to my classes, but the consequences the board has been giving in my class are definitely the absolutely bare minimum (generally zeros on the assignment and nothing else) and really not actually enough (they've done the cost-benefit analysis and decided it's worth the risk).

How completely disingenuous for her to claim to agree with us and then work behind-the-scenes to undermine those words.