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AI Guidance for CUC: CUC Faculty Guidance

What faculty must know about AI:

  • AI is already an active part of today's workforce, and you have already contributed to AI (whether you knew it or not!).
  • As educational leaders, it's our role to equip students with knowledge and skills on how to effectively and ethically conduct research and writing, including navigating AI tools.
  • There are no resources to effectively detect AI-created content; this is not recommended!
  • Not all AI tools are created equal:
    • Tools like Google Gemini and ChatGPT are created for the consumer market only.
    • AI tools are not always smart enough to identify non-native English writers.
    • AI tools can pose some privacy risks, data breaches, bias, and unintended discrimination, especially if they are "free".
    • To protect your privacy, you can be careful about what information you share with AI systems, anonymize data.

Additional resources to learn about AI in higher education:

CUC Faculty may consider using generative AI to:

  • Generate content and course materials including lesson plans, quiz questions, sample problems, or writing scenarios to further enhance the classroom experience.
  • Assist in research tasks including analyzing large datasets, identifying patterns, and generating insights.
  • Write learning objectives, course descriptions, syllabi statements, or course policies.
  • Update assignments with current content that cannot be reflected using generative AI tools (Yes! generative AI tools can even help you do this!).
  • Be transparent in your use of generative AI and cite as appropriate:
  • CUC AI tools that you can use now:
    • Blackboard Ultra AI is embedded in all course shells. It's designed to support faculty syllabi creation. 
    • Primo Research Assistant AI is embedded in the library's catalog. It's designed to pull credible sources to help students begin their research journey.