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ChatGPT Guidance (Dean Anne Harrington, email-01/20/23)

Last fall’s (Fall 2023) arrival of ChatGPT (an AI-assisted writing tool) on the scene has raised questions for all of us. In the absence of faculty-legislated policy on this matter, the OUE consulted with the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning (VPAL) who helped craft the following suggested brief guidance:

"New machine learning and AI technologies, like ChatGPT, are emerging that might be tempting to use for writing and other assignments. We want to therefore remind all students that the Harvard College Honor Code forbids students to represent work as their own that they did not write, code, or create. Submission of computer-generated text without attribution is also prohibited by ChatGPT’s own terms of service (“You may not … represent that output from the Services was human-generated when it is not”)."

Faculty should feel free to use or adapt this text for their classes, as they see fit.

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Writing Assignments
(Bok Center for Teaching and Learning)
 

AI & GPT Guidance, FAQs, and Policies Wording
 

Honor Code Information

Academic Integrity, Teaching with Integrity, and the Harvard College Honor Code (adopted May 6, 2014 by the vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
 

"Members of the Harvard College community commit themselves to producing academic work of integrity – that is, work that adheres to the scholarly and intellectual standards of accurate attribution of sources, appropriate collection and use of data, and transparent acknowledgement of the contribution of others to their ideas, discoveries, interpretations, and conclusions. Cheating on exams or problem sets, plagiarizing or misrepresenting the ideas or language of someone else as one’s own, falsifying data, or any other instance of academic dishonesty violates the standards of our community, as well as the standards of the wider world of learning and affairs."

Please add guidelines about this issue to your syllabus. For examples and further explanation, please go to this website page, http://honor.fas.harvard.edu/syllabus-design.

Faculty Guide to Managing Academic Accommodations and Requests 2023-2024 (FAS-Disability Access Office)
 

Website for Teaching Resources for Faculty
(Office of Undergraduate Education)


OUE Teaching Support for your seminar
 

ATG Help Sessions Calendar
(for calendar list of sessions/workshops for instruction)
 

Canvas Guide:
"How To" Instructions for everything on Canvas, Canvas Tools and Supported Technologies
These supported tools and platforms may be added to meet the needs of the activity you are conducting within your seminar.

The tech liaison for the First-Year Seminar Program is Kevin Guiney, Senior Instructional Technologist, Academic Technology Group, 617-495-1059, guiney@fas.harvard.edu.
 

Advice for Teaching First-Year Students

Resources for current and prospective instructors to learn more about teaching in the First-Year Seminar Program. For suggestions and feedback for faculty about teaching first-year students, please feel free to contact Ofrit Liviatan, Director of the First-Year Seminar Program, with any queries.

Useful Links

Library Assistance

Our library liaison, Sarah Demott, is able to assist you with library resources, books and video materials, etc to enhance the seminar for students.

Harvard Museums

The Art Study Center of the Harvard Art Museums has beautiful classrooms and galleries that may be reserved for class meetings that incorporate art-viewing.

The museum staff would be delighted to assist you. Please feel free to contact Laura Muir, Research Curator of the Division of Academic and Public Programs, in locating relevant art work for your seminar. Her contact information is 617‐384‐9077, laura_muir@harvard.edu.

There is a high demand for the museum classrooms. To make a reservation, please contact Mary Lister, Art Study Center Manager, 617-384-9424, mary_lister@harvard.edu .

Funding for Seminar Activities

Field Trip Funding: all seminars receive a budget of $500 for seminar-related expenses. Please notify the FYSP office to inquire about further funding. 

Trip Waiver Form for students: to be signed & returned to the FYSP office. Please note: if a student is under 18, a parent must sign & return form by mail or fax, 617-496-3262.

Concur Instructions for First-Year Seminar-related expenses: Faculty should submit receipts (out-of-pocket or corporate card) for any expenses to the Concur system within 60 days after incurring expense to allow time for processing. First-Year Seminar-related expenses will be routed to the FSP office for final review and approval. To obtain information about correct coding, please email Nina at nlduncan@fas.harvard.edu.

Please visit these websites for additional project funding and opportunities for seminars: