As Students Rely More on AI, Humanities Professors Are Pushing Back

Geo Elasmar • November 12, 2025

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT, humanities departments across BC have engaged in conversations, implemented new policies, and reoriented their perspectives to assess how AI affects learning and how to mitigate its misuse.

UGBC Discusses ChatGPT, Responsible Usage of Generative AI Tools

Reetu Agnihotri • April 9, 2025

During the UGBC Senate meeting Tuesday night, student senators discussed whether Boston College should continue investing in the generative AI tools it provides—such as Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and NotebookLM—because students tend to prefer ChatGPT.

BC Must Further Prioritize AI Learning Opportunities For Faculty Members

The Heights Editorial Board • November 17, 2024

On Nov. 30, 2022, ChatGPT launched for the public, forever altering the academic landscape. The sudden, widespread accessibility of the platform presented University administrators with a series of unprecedented challenges: keeping up with this unpredictable technology, educating professors about the benefits and drawbacks of these platforms, and determining guidelines for the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education.

Is The Fear of AI in Academia Justified?

Katie Spillane • March 18, 2024

The technology to accurately determine whether AI has been used simply doesn’t exist yet, but is it even necessary in most cases? More often than not, students aren’t using this technology in the way teachers fear.

The Independency of Dependency

Pat Connell • February 4, 2024

We are living in “a system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem.” So maybe I just rewatched Blade Runner 2049, but that does not mean it isn’t true.

Control Over Chaos: Why AI Needs to be Implemented Inside the Classroom

Jose Garcia • January 30, 2024

AI is part of a broader goal to expand the limits of the world we live in, not contract them. The AI question is centered around control of reality, because this new program isn’t leaving this world anytime soon.

Boston College Needs to Take Advantage of AI, Not Run Away From It

Peter Coquillette • March 19, 2023

Just like the internet, computers, television, and telephones before it, AI has untapped potential to change our lives for the better—no matter how much we resist it at first.

Institute for the Liberal Arts Hosts Forum About ChatGPT in Higher Education

Isabel Sullivan • February 4, 2023

Despite its controversial presence in the academic world, ChatGPT will not radically transform the higher education system, according to Paula Mathieu, an associate English professor at Boston College.