Faculty Lead AI Usage Conversations on College Campuses
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Faculty Lead AI Usage Conversations on College Campuses
""It's good news that students feel like they understand the basic ground rules for when AI is appropriate,""
""It suggests that there are some real benefits to having faculty be the primary point of contact for information about what practices around AI should look like.""
""I think that faculty should have wide latitudes to teach their courses how they see fit. Trusting them to understand what's pedagogically appropriate for their ways of teaching and within their discipline""
"Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they know when to use AI, with the share of those saying they don't shrinking from 31 percent in spring 2024 to 13 percent in August 2025."
Since 2022, higher education has grappled with the role of large language models and generative AI in students' lives. Nearly all college students report knowing how and when to use AI for coursework, attributing that understanding largely to faculty instruction and syllabus language. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they know when to use AI, while the share saying they do not fell from 31 percent in spring 2024 to 13 percent in August 2025. Forty-one percent cite syllabus statements and 35 percent cite in-class instruction. Institutions are shifting from top-down AI policies toward faculty-led, discipline-specific approaches, raising workforce development and integrity challenges.
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