In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”
In an email sent to faculty members on Wednesday that was seen by The Daily Beast, the BU Dean of Arts & Sciences Stan Sclaroff provided recommendations for staff to “manage course discussion sections and labs that are impacted by the BUGWU strike.”
While most suggestions were tame, such as assigning readings and coming discussion sections, Sclaroff also “listed some creative ways in which, we have heard, some faculty are adapting their course formats and using technology to serve their students.” This included a recommendation that they, “Engage generative AI tools to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.
“It’s demoralizing, for sure,” the faculty member said. They later added, “You have critical, interesting, and accomplished professors who are, like me, baffled by this belief that you can just deliver a quality, higher education experience through the punch of a button.”from the union noted that grad student workers are paid stipends that range between $27,000 to $40,000 per year. Meanwhile, the living wage for Boston is roughly $62,000 per year.
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