We are in liberal arts, which works for me.

Sure, let's do that. I'm sure that the humanities are why they're shutting down vaccines and telescopes and weather monitoring. Trump will restore all funding if Yale stops teaching history.

Could a colleague write one for you?

I can knit, spin, weave, sew and embroider. I also bake bread.

Not just in higher ed. My spouse works at a big nonprofit and they are going through the same thing. AI for everything while they are in the midst of a budget crisis and talking about layoffs.

Yup. So much time on the Chromebook sitting in the classroom while the teacher watches to make sure they aren’t playing other games not in Lexia.

Bunch of nonsense since she was in VA. Washington and Jefferson are still put on a pedestal in the SOLs.

They cannot translate either, has anyone seen the mess that is the indexing done by Ancestry and Family search AI?

This sadly is our history and our present. All driven by greed, racism and the idea that some folks don’t matter.

Ah, maybe then give them an example but don’t say it’s yours?

Even if they aren’t the exact same prompt, something in the same format is helpful for students. Give them explicit directions on what is useful for their assignment from the example.

I don’t give examples from me ever, I do ask prior students who did a good job if I can use their anonymized paper as a sample. I will do things like fix the footnotes/bibliography and basic grammatical errors but otherwise leave it the same.