Chatham University AI Policy

Using ChatGPT or any other AI system to complete an assignment or exercise would be considered an act of academic misconduct under Chatham University’s Honor Code – Policy on Academic Integrity unless an instructor explicitly requires it to be use this technology.

Using AI to complete your assignments, exams, exercises or other academic activities without explicit directions from your course instructor to use this technology is academic misconduct and reportable under The Honor Code – Policy on Academic Integrity.

Faculty and staff may establish policies relating to the use of AI in their courses or offices as it relates to their curriculum and services. Remember, if you are not sure whether use of AI is appropriate in your academic pursuits, please reach out to your instructor for clarification.

Use of artificial intelligence technology is not permitted to be used in the completion of assignments or exercises for this course unless explicitly outlined by the instructor.

Using AI to complete your assignments, exams, exercises or other academic activities without explicit directions from your course instructor to use this technology is academic misconduct and reportable under The Honor Code – Policy on Academic Integrity.

Using AI to complete assignments, exams, exercises or other academic activities does not demonstrate knowledge or learning on the student's part and is considered an act of academic misconduct according to Chatham’s Honor Code – Policy on Academic Integrity.

• Cheating: Cheating includes fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an academic course or exercise in an attempt to meet academic requirements by gaining an unfair advantage and/or using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids on any academic course or exercise.

Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to using any electronic device to copy, transmit, or receive information during an exam;

The implications of AI are great. Not only can this technology provide an opportunity to benefit our approach to education, creative efforts, and responses to complex questions, but it also can be used inappropriately without attribution to fulfill academic work as if it were created independently by an individual.

With that said, the Office of Academic and Accessibility Resources (OAAR), located on the third floor of the JKM Library, offers a variety of academic resource tools to support your academic success and include:

If a student does choose to still use AI in pursuit of a creative endeavor, the student must indicate all portions of the work that were generated by this technology and which AI service was used for its creation.

Using AI to complete your assignments, exams, exercises or other academic activities without explicit directions from your course instructor to use this technology is academic misconduct and reportable under The Honor Code – Policy on Academic Integrity.

As an institution, Chatham utilizes the services of Turnitin to identify plagiarism in student writing. Turnitin is working on additional tools to enable educators to detect ChatGPT and AI-generated writing.

As of [INSERT DATE,] student work will be submitted to an artificial intelligence detection system,[INSERT AI Detection system – e.g., GPTZero,] for review to determine if AI was used to generate the assignment.”

If reports are received that the writing was completed with AI, this will be considered an act of academic misconduct and will be reported. This could result in a student earning a zero on a paper, failure of the course or suspension/dismissal.

Generative AI has changed how students draft, revise, brainstorm, summarize, and polish their work. It has also made academic integrity conversations more complicated. While faculty may notice writing that feels unusual, overly polished, generic, or inconsistent with a student’s prior work, it is important to remember that detecting AI-generated writing is difficult, and no AI detector should be treated as definitive proof of misconduct.

Tools such as Turnitin’s AI indicator, GPTZero, Copyleaks, Originality.ai, Winston AI, and others may provide a useful starting point for review, but they are not reliable enough to stand alone as evidence.

Turnitin’s AI detector is widely available and familiar to many instructors, but it should be treated as an indicator, not a verdict.

Appropriate sanctions for a substantiated act of academic misconduct may include, but are not limited to requiring the student to participate in a workshop or seminar on ethics or academic integrity; requiring an assigned paper or research project related to ethics or academic integrity; scheduling a meeting with the Academic Integrity Officer; participation in a credit bearing course on ethics or academic integrity; failure of the course; removal of graduate fellowship or assistantship support; removal of scholarships or honors; academic integrity probation; academic integrity suspension for one or more semesters/terms; or academic integrity dismissal from the University in addition to any course-based or institutional sanctions recommended by the instructor, academic integrity Committee subcommittee, and Dean of the appropriate school.

Two subcommittees of the Academic Integrity Committee are utilized – an undergraduate subcommittee made up of undergraduate faculty and students for the purpose of hearing cases involving undergraduate students and a graduate subcommittee made up of graduate faculty and students for the purpose of hearing cases involving graduate students.

Chatham University has developed this resource page to help faculty learn more about ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Please note that ChatGPT has not been thoroughly reviewed by Chatham for concerns with accessibility, privacy, and security. Faculty are advised to consider these factors when using ChatGPT in the classroom.

Faculty and staff may establish policies relating to the use of AI in their courses or offices as it relates to their curriculum and services.

Generative AI has changed how students draft, revise, brainstorm, summarize, and polish their work. It has also made academic integrity conversations more complicated.

While faculty may notice writing that feels unusual, overly polished, generic, or inconsistent with a student’s prior work, it is important to remember that detecting AI-generated writing is difficult, and no AI detector should be treated as definitive proof of misconduct.

Please note that ChatGPT has not been thoroughly reviewed by Chatham for concerns with accessibility, privacy, and security. Faculty are advised to consider these factors when using ChatGPT in the classroom.

Chatham University has developed this resource page to help faculty learn more about ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

AI Tools such as ChatGPT are continuously evolving, so information on this page will be updated to reflect those changes.

This faculty session, hosted by the Office of Academic Integrity and the Office of Instructional Technology and Teaching Development, focused on updates, policies, resources, discussion, and a general Q&A about AI and ChatGPT.