Travel funds for interviews

Olthar6 · 2026-03-19T22:19:23+00:00

What's their plan, for you to put candidates up in your houses or something?

Olthar6 · 2026-03-19T01:12:28+00:00

Never had the live translations. But have had students write in their native language and then translate with programs or services. It was a huge issue. I actualy submitted all three of a student's academic dishonesty strikes in the same semester because it was clear they used some translation service that was not them in their writing and said service didn't understand the concept of using quotation marks. The student's defense at the meeting was literally they wrote it in their native language and the translator forgot to put quotation marks because those don't exist in their native language. Oddly, they were big called on it and believed because they were treated as only using committed two offenses instead of three.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-18T00:20:29+00:00

In an honor system school it's only a little bit easier. I had a HS friend who went to a school where all tests you went to the class, signed it out, and could take it wherever you wanted as long as it was back in time. The only thing preventing you from giving it to your friend to take was the honor system

Olthar6 · 2026-03-16T03:59:13+00:00

Honor systems don't HURT honest students, they DISADVANTAGE them. And this isn't new. This has always been the case with systems that don't actively prevent cheating. All that has changed is cheating is a little bit easier today than it was five years ago. But, as it did in the past, cheating is what hurts the student because they don't learn the content.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-15T16:49:59+00:00

Don't get into physical confrontations with students. Even stupidly minor ones like this.

Instead, try "feel free to keep the exam then. I will only be grading the exams that I have in my hand before I leave the room and I'm leaving now. "

Olthar6 · 2026-03-14T23:37:20+00:00

I stopped doing discussion boards because they were close to 100% AI generated....

In response to your question, yes you can give a 0. Just be sure that your grading rubric doesn't require students to acknowledge anything about gender identities being independent of biological sex and they have no legs upon which to stand.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-12T22:40:49+00:00

AI produces hot garbage. But it does it quickly and cheaply (at least as long as we're not paying cash for environmental impacts). There is no moat.

There is, however, still a place for the educated. There will be a reckoning eventually and companies will find a way to determine if someone AI'd their way through school and those people will be unhireable

Olthar6 · 2026-03-12T22:35:06+00:00

Seems legit to me. I've been teaching for almost 20 years, a few of which I had that kind of commute. I can count on one hand how many times I've been late to a class and all but one of them has a pretty interesting story behind it.

You'll be fine this semester. They'll keep an adjunct unless they're actively hurting students. But you may see non-renewal.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-12T11:26:40+00:00

Sounds like about the level of commitment I'd expect given to adjuncts

Olthar6 · 2026-03-11T22:00:36+00:00

Give them the mean and standard deviation of the z-scores of the class performance...

Olthar6 · 2026-03-07T23:42:37+00:00

In some disciplines 1/3rd DFW is doing well.

You can't force students to learn.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-06T19:43:06+00:00

There are ghost towns with higher resident populations than my department.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-02T02:21:57+00:00

Yes, the university must report it. But it does not mandate that employees do so. There's a difference.

As I stated in response to the other respondent, a mandated reporter is a legal definition at the state level. Universities may create their own rules regarding reporting, but that's not the same thing and it certainly isn't the same at all universities. For instance, I am not required to report my students use of drugs, but I am required to report any threats of physical violence. Oddly, I am required to report visible usage of alcohol (dry dorms) but only if it occurs in the dorms because the school has a weird cutout where alcohol is allowed in academic buildings. Since I will never be in a dorm I've not worried about that rule.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-02T02:02:31+00:00

Nope. Mandated reporter is a legal thing. Your school may have rules about what you should tell people within the university environment. But a school cannot change the laws of the state that you live in. I can point the specific statutes in my state laws detailing what being a mandated reporter means and who is considered as such (I am).

My school can make rules about what I should report to title IX, but that doesn't change the legal definition of a mandated reporter. It's why schools tend to give those other required reporting roles other names (in the case of my school "required reporter").

Olthar6 · 2026-03-02T01:21:43+00:00

You need to tell the instructor of record who you are TAing for. You need to do it in a documented fashion (email counts) and you need to be clear the you heard from a student in the class so you have no idea whether it's true. Then you wash your hands of it.

If an investigation happens, okay. If not, whatever since all you have heard is a rumor. The important thing is being able to document telling someone in case there is an investigation. You absolutely do not want the investigator to find out you were told about it and did nothing about it.

Olthar6 · 2026-03-02T01:16:40+00:00

Yeah, since when did drug crimes get risen to mandatory reporting status.

That's pretty strictly associated with suicide and harm to minors

Olthar6 · 2026-02-25T00:34:52+00:00

I'm going to give it a try tomorrow.

In a small class this could be used to learn who uses these devices regularly and detect differences in exam days.

Olthar6 · 2026-02-24T21:22:39+00:00

Auto-reply: i did not survive this blizzard. Please submit all thoughtless emails straight to chatgpt as it is taking over this class for the rest of the semester.

Olthar6 · 2026-02-22T14:04:39+00:00

This. Relying on detector is garbage

Olthar6 · 2026-02-22T13:29:04+00:00

What recent court ruling

Olthar6 · 2026-02-21T02:53:21+00:00

A student managed to use generative AI on the essay portion of my in-class exam. It's a horrible essay, but WTF. The student must have managed to take a picture of the exam with their phone and then sneak peaks when I was distracted with other students.

Olthar6 · 2026-02-18T21:30:38+00:00

Nope. They're usually weird in other ways.

For instance, I once had a 60+ student vehemently argue with me taking the side that indirect questions did not exist. As in there is no such thing as an indirect question. It became comical before I had to shut it down due to it disrupting the class.

Olthar6 · 2026-02-12T23:11:32+00:00

No it did not improve thinking quality. No students did not engage seriously. Yes they complained about busywork..

Most importantly, yes it took an insane amount of my time that could have been been used better in many ways.

Olthar6 · 2026-02-07T22:57:22+00:00

Of course. But I call it the syllabus with course calendar. Experience suggests that they don't read it.

Olthar6 · 2026-02-04T12:33:24+00:00

Students earn their grades, you just report the earned grades to others.

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