To: Faculty Colleagues
From: Alix Gitelman, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Date: September 19th, 2025
Dear Faculty Colleagues
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the landscape of higher education, Oregon State University recognizes the importance of providing university-level guidance to support its thoughtful and ethical integration into teaching and learning. Toward that end, in the summer I charged a workgroup with developing clear, actionable guidance for the use of Generative AI (GenAI) within OSU courses.
The guidance developed by the workgroup, with feedback from key OSU stakeholders, is designed to reflect OSU's shared commitments to human cognition and creativity, academic integrity, and inclusive excellence; support faculty autonomy and intellectual freedom; and maintain transparency, uphold our ethical responsibilities as educators, and protect the privacy and security of individual and institutional data.
For the fall 2025 term, instructors are strongly encouraged to:
- Follow the guidance for instructors about GenAI in teaching and learning, and
- Add the GenAI syllabus statement to their syllabi, tailoring it with details of the specific approach to the use of GenAI in the course.
The workgroup will continue working with Faculty Senate for additional vetting and approvals with the expectation that a GenAI statement will eventually become a syllabus requirement.
For help tailoring your GenAI syllabus statement:
- Register for the upcoming workshop "Let's Talk AI: Creating Your Course Policy & Syllabus Statement" on Sept. 22nd at 10 AM,
- Join the online “AI Syllabus Statements Drop-In Hours” on Sept. 23rd at 12 PM,
- Review the Center for Teaching and Learning's AI Resources and Ecampus AI resources, or
- Schedule a consultation with CTL or Ecampus.
Many thanks to the workgroup, listed below, for developing these guidelines.
With best wishes for the start of fall term,
Alix Gitelman, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Workgroup
- Ashley Holmes (Chair), Academic Affairs, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
- Cheridy Aduviri, CTL, AI Literacy Center
- Laurie Bridges, Valley Library, AI Literacy Center
- Cub Kahn, CTL, Ecampus
- Katherine McAlvage, Division of Educational Ventures, Ecampus
- Danielle Safonte, College of Engineering representing Faculty Senate
- Inara Scott, College of Business
- Jessica Siegel, College of Science
- Nicole von Germeten, College of Liberal Arts
- Samuel Williams, University Information and Technology