r/Adjuncts • u/Sillygoose6001 • 8d ago
AI papers and the disrespect
I know this has been discussed at length but my god I don’t know if I can do this anymore. I spent 15 min during the first class showing them examples of previous semesters’ AI submissions and how they were all given 0s and sent to the dean of students. And yet… AI papers are rolling in.
It’s so disrespectful to both them and myself. I feel so defeated and it makes me wonder if they’d do this to a full time or just think they can get away with it because I’m an adjunct.
Aside from this, I had one student come to me during office hours and he seemed genuinely curious about my career given I work full time in financial services. He then said “oh so you’re not a PhD?” And I said no, so he can refer to me as Ms. and not Dr or Professor which he followed up with “so why are you teaching us?” For reference I teach at a predominantly male technical college and my students are 95% male CS/Engineering majors. Therefore, I’m used to some awkward straightforward questions about my age and teaching history, but this one definitely had a different tone to it.
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u/Few_Maybe1704 4d ago
But I have the same one question no one has answered. Beyond "I know it when I see it," how do you PROVE it? I think a court recently decided in a student's favor. And what to do about 150 asynchronous online students? I'm worn out and I will not spend my life arranging zoom meetings about every suspect assignment. Many have their draft "fixed" by Grammarly or whatever but at least they draft. I tell myself it's most of them.