Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Views on and Use of ChatGPT

Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Views on and Use of ChatGPT

This study looks at how faculty of US colleges and universities are experiencing the use of the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT by students and by themselves in their classes.  The study also examines how college administration, academic departments, and individual professors and other instructors are developing guidelines for ChatGPT use.  The report helps its readers to answer questions such as:  to what extent do college faculty feel that ChatGPT undermines traditional approaches to college term papers?  How serious a problem is ChatGPT inspired plagiarism and other unattributed uses of ChatGPT?  To what degree and how do college faculty feel that ChatGPT should be integrated into traditional paper writing and other college course requirements?We asked respondents: To the best of your knowledge have any of the following developed guidelines on how ChatGPT and similar programs should be used in classes? First, we asked if their college administration and developed guidelines for use of ChatGPT.

86.48% noted that their college administration had not yet developed guidelines, while 13.52% said that they had. There were variations in responses based on different factors such as enrollment, type of college, public or private status, age of respondent, political views, annual personal income, tenure status, gender, sexual orientation, and race or ethnicity.