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AI Use in Graduate Studies – Where is the Line and Who’s Drawing It?
At the CEGEP level we've been wrestling with undergrad AI policy but the graduate and post-secondary question is even more complex and getting less attention. I've been following the research on this.…
Dissertation-Level AI Policy – Canadian Universities Catching Up?
The PhD and dissertation level is where AI policy gets most complicated and where I've seen the least institutional clarity. I've been surveying graduate coordinators at 8 Canadian universities as part of…
CEGEP vs University AI Policy – Same Problems, Different Contexts
After presenting at three different PD days this spring, I've been comparing CEGEP and university approaches to AI academic integrity. The differences are more interesting than I expected. CEGEP challenges specific to…
University AI Policies After 3 Years – Are They Actually Working?
From an academic integrity coordinator perspective: we now have enough data to evaluate the first generation of Canadian university AI policies. The verdict is mixed. Policies that worked: transparency-based frameworks that required…
University AI Policies in 2026 – What’s Actually in Place Across Canada
Working in academic integrity at UBC I have a cross-institutional view that might be useful. Here's what I'm seeing across Canadian universities in 2026. The institutions that moved fast in 2023-2024: most…
PhD committee split on AI-assisted lit reviews
Defending my proposal in a few weeks and ran into a weird split on my committee. One supervisor is totally fine with me using AI tools to help organize and summarize the…
University admissions scanning personal statements for AI now
I mentor a handful of grade 12 students applying to competitive programs every year and just found out through a colleague that at least two Ontario universities are now running submitted personal…
Every department has a different AI policy and its chaos
I teach a required first year writing course that pulls students from every faculty on campus and the AI policy chaos is genuinely something else. My engineering students tell me their department…
How are universities actually checking admission essays for AI
genuine question for anyone who works in or close to admissions. with how easy it is now to generate a polished, personal sounding admissions essay, how are universities actually verifying anything? are…
Supervisor wants an AI use statement in my thesis, anyone done this
my thesis supervisor just told me i need to include a statement disclosing any ai use in my thesis before it goes to committee. i used chatgpt for some literature search help,…
Paraphrasing tools in grad writing, where does the line fall
Working on my thesis and I've been running some of my more awkward sentences through QuillBot when I know what I mean but cant get the phrasing right, especially after a long…
PhD comprehensive exams going oral only because of AI concerns at written take homes
our department is proposing moving comprehensive exams from a take home written format to fully oral exams starting next admission cycle, largely because of concerns about ai use in the current take…
TAs using AI grading tools, should departments allow it
I TA a first year course with 240 students and grade essays basically every week of the semester on top of my own coursework and research. A fellow TA mentioned she's been…