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Dutch thesis scans, Stanford’s return to paper, and a second look at an AI tutor trial.

Issue 24 covers disputed Dutch thesis detections, Stanford’s assessment changes, a reanalysis of the Maryland AI tutor trial, PISA findings, and new research tools.

A campus AI tutor trial, the cost of policing AI, and text watermarks instructors cannot check.

Issue 23 covers a campus AI tutor trial, faculty assessment concerns, OpenAI text watermarking, further Turnitin departures, and new research and classroom practice.

AI tops campus priorities, Turnitin pauses its licence change, and trust comes under strain.

Issue 22 covers the EDUCAUSE Top 10, Turnitin’s postponed licence change, faculty AI writing norms, student–teacher trust, and new research on memory and tutoring.

A provost faces review, Oxford theses become training data, and graduate job research diverges.

Issue 21 covers provost AI use and oversight, Bodleian thesis scans shared with OpenAI, conflicting findings on graduate jobs and pay, and new research and practice signals.

Congress moves on AI, detection faces scrutiny, and AI skills command a wage premium.

Issue 20 covers congressional AI policy, a provost’s AI-detector experience, Microsoft’s AI-skills wage findings, campus readiness, and new research and practice signals.

Campus AI deals expand, student privacy gets new promises, and detection shifts toward dialogue.

Issue 19 covers ChatGPT Edu at Sydney and UNSW, Microsoft student-privacy commitments, changing AI detection practices, Cornell’s Socratic AI research, and new research and practice signals.

Harvard rethinks detection, blue books rebound, and major school systems pause AI.

Issue 18 covers Harvard's assessment reset, rising blue-book sales, AI moratoriums in New York City and Los Angeles, faculty labor action in Sydney, and new research and practice signals.

Admissions AI lacks policy, premium student AI goes free, and detectors quietly improve.

Issue 17 covers unwritten admissions AI use, OpenAI's four-month ChatGPT Plus offer, improving AI detectors, teacher-education reform, and new research and practice signals.

Chicago goes analog, students push back, and campus AI practice earns a state badge.

Issue 16 covers Chicago's device-free core, Suffolk student concerns, Colorado's campus AI designation, UK student sentiment, and new research and practice signals.

Detection retreats, provenance arrives, and AI tutoring meets its first large-scale trials.

Issue 15 covers NTU ending AI-detector use, Claude text watermarking, calls to end unsupervised online exams, global AI-literacy requirements, and new randomized evidence on AI tutoring.

The detector era ends, keystroke replay arrives, and AI study workflows go mainstream.

Issue 14 covers Turnitin Clarity, universities disabling AI detectors, OpenAI's education plugins, American University's student AI-use signal, and Gemini's expansion in Classroom.

Unsupervised exams retreat, UNAM's admissions scandal, and AI courses for everyone.

Issue 13 covers Princeton ending unsupervised exams, Mexico's UNAM invalidating 3,000 AI-proctored admissions tests, non-majors flooding AI courses, and a 77,000-student AI-tutor usage study.

Detector retreat, Brown's case, and education-market moves.

Issue 12 covers universities walking away from AI detectors, the Brown cheating case returning to national attention, Claude for Teachers entering the tool race, and teacherless AI-classroom experiments.

The UK's 94% AI-use moment, OpenAI on campus, and Brown's investigation.

Issue 11 covers UK undergraduate AI use, OpenAI's student Codex credits and ChatGPT Edu rollout, Brown's formal investigation, and practical moves for non-delegable assessment.

Assessment integrity, AI guidance gaps, and classroom tooling.

Issue 10 covers Brown's AI-cheating concerns, UChicago Law's device ban, a 35-country higher-ed AI survey, and Claude for Teachers entering classrooms.

AI across every major, mainstream adoption, and classroom tooling.

Issue 9 covers the University of Florida's AI-across-the-curriculum model, D2L and Tyton's AI tipping-point report, Google's new learning tools, and accreditation pressure around AI-only instruction.

Academic integrity pressure, AI-learning penalties, and education-first policy.

Issue 8 covers Brown's mass AI-cheating allegation, new evidence on AI-assisted homework and exam performance, the policy shift away from detection-first language, and practical moves for assessment redesign.

AI-learning penalties, AI fluency expectations, and the end of detector-first policy.

Issue 7 covers the clearest evidence yet of an AI homework learning penalty, Ohio State's AI-fluency push, the decline of detector-led integrity policy, and practical moves for assessment redesign.

False AI-cheating accusations, fluency pilots, and faculty governance fights.

Issue 6 covers unreliable AI-detector accusations, university-wide AI fluency pilots, Miami faculty pushback against an AI mandate, global AI sentiment, and practical moves for assessment design.

Issue 5 covers fast-changing vendor risk, academic-integrity pressure in computer science, federal AI-readiness signals, AI trust gaps, and practical steps for procurement and assessment planning.

Assessment crisis research, Cal State's OpenAI renewal, and Claude Opus 4.8.

Issue 4 covers new undergraduate AI-use and grading studies, Cal State's renewed ChatGPT Edu contract, K-12 AI guidance gaps, and the latest model/tool releases affecting faculty workflows.

The largest undergraduate AI-use study yet, commencement backlash, and the next wave of classroom AI.

Issue 3 covers a Science study of 95,513 students, graduating students booing AI-themed speeches, EDUCAUSE's 2026 signals of change, university policy gaps, and fast-moving K-12 AI literacy legislation.

Princeton's proctored-exam turn, arXiv's AI-slop bans, and the EU warning around AI grading.

The week the integrity machinery cracked: Princeton retired a 133-year honor-code tradition, arXiv moved to sanction unchecked LLM output, and new EU AI Act analysis raised hard questions about grading with ChatGPT.

SUNY's 64-campus AI policy, USC's $200M gift, and admissions essays that converged after 2022.

The first briefing covers campus-level AI policy, major AI gifts in higher education, legal risk around AI misconduct flags, and what current research says about GenAI and learning.