Faculty are continuing to face challenges in managing student AI use and ensuring academic integrity on exams and assignments. In many cases, faculty use text comparison and AI detector tools to flag AI-generated content and restrict its use in the classroom. Given the unreliability of such detectors, however, there is a growing body of lawsuits challenging academic dishonesty charges and sanctions, on different grounds, based on a student’s use of generative AI on essays, tests, and other coursework (when prohibited).
Free Inquiry and Expression: From Principles to Educational Practice
Hundreds of colleges and universities have adopted free expression and institutional speech documents from the University of Chicago. In 1899, the University of Chicago faculty unanimously resolved that complete freedom
Leila Brammer
September 7, 2026
