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ACADEMIC HONESTY AND INTELLECTUAL GENEROSITY  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Citing our sources and giving credit where it\u2019s due are more than bureaucratic obligations; they\u2019re ethical, political practices \u2014\u00a0especially <\/em>in this age of artificial intelligence. As Sarah Ahmed<\/a> and Kishonna Gray<\/a> acknowledge, citations<\/a> are a means of determining \u201cwho appears,\u201d who counts, whose work gets validated. Our citational choices have the power to build communities, as well as to dismantle and reform canons<\/a> and disciplines. They\u2019re creative<\/em><\/a> opportunities, too! The endnote and footnote can become a poetic or epistolary form!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please familiarize yourself with the University\u2019s Code of Academic Integrity<\/a> and the Libraries\u2019 plagiarism resources<\/a>. If you have any questions regarding proper citation of sources or other academic integrity matters, please ask me or consult the <\/a>Weingarten Center<\/a> for academic support and disability services, the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing<\/a>, or any of these other services supporting academic skills<\/a>. Plagiarism and cheating of any form do carry consequences, and egregious cases will be referred to the Center for Community Standards and Accountability<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding Generative AI: <\/strong>I used to welcome creative, critical, consentful, and transparent uses of generative AI in student work, but the more we learn about the extractive, exploitative nature of this technology \u2014 from its abuse of copyrighted material, to its disregard for attribution, to the environmental impacts of its operation \u2014 the less value I see in it. That said, if you can make a compelling case for its transformative, ethical use in your own work, please speak with me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACADEMIC FREEDOM <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Via AAUP-Penn<\/a>: The policies of the University of Pennsylvania protect academic freedom, as defined in the <\/strong>AAUP\u2019s 1940 Statement of Principles<\/a>.  This statement has been endorsed by over 250 scholarly and educational organizations in the United States, and its principles are written into faculty handbooks nationwide, including Penn\u2019s<\/a>. The principles of academic freedom were established to protect the integrity of research and teaching from interference by donors, trustees, politicians, and others who might seek to make universities serve private and political interests.  They are founded on the idea that a university\u2019s purpose is to generate new knowledge that can serve the common good in a democratic society, and that generating new knowledge requires free and open inquiry.  To safeguard the university\u2019s public mission, academic freedom entails the following rights:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n