Division of Academic Affairs and Provost Resources: Artificial Intelligence Initiative

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative at East Texas A&M focuses on integrating AI into several areas of the university, from teaching to service delivery. Its primary goal is to leverage AI for student success. The committee examines ways to use AI to facilitate student learning, identify at-risk students earlier and increase student retention. The group monitors changing workforce needs in relation to AI. It also introduces faculty to AI tools that may help streamline routine tasks.

Policy

It is no surprise that the use of AI in higher education and the classroom has been a topic of interest for state, national and international media. In an effort to assist faculty in identifying expectations for AI use in their courses, included below is suggested language regarding the use of AI in coursework. This will be sent to all faculty teaching this semester so that they can easily add it to a syllabus and provide students with clarity about AI use in each course.

Faculty are encouraged (but not required) to include the language below. Most importantly, faculty are asked to clearly identify their expectations for AI use in each course they teach at the beginning of the course, including whether no use of AI is acceptable.

Syllabus Language

AI Use in Courses [Draft 2, May 25, 2023]

East Texas A&M University acknowledges that there are legitimate uses of Artificial Intelligence, ChatBots, or other software that has the capacity to generate text, or suggest replacements for text beyond individual words, as determined by the instructor of the course.

Any use of such software must be documented. Any undocumented use of such software constitutes an instance of academic dishonesty (plagiarism).

Individual instructors may disallow entirely the use of such software for individual assignments or for the entire course. Students should be aware of such requirements and follow their instructors’ guidelines. If no instructions are provided, the student should assume that the use of such software is disallowed.

In any case, students are fully responsible for the content of any assignment they submit, regardless of whether they used an AI, in any way. This specifically includes cases in which the AI plagiarized another text or misrepresented sources.

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