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When I had my child 14 years ago, DSU did not offer paid maternal leave. I used up my previously-earned sick days while on family leave and came back sooner than I should have. The pressure to be "on the clock" was so great as a tenure track faculty member that I worked remotely (even during labor!), graded work for an online class all semester, and attended faculty meetings and other events while officially on leave. This is not healthy for a new parent or for an infant, and it's not in the best interests of students. Let's join the rest of the developed world in caring for children and their caregivers by enacting paid parental leave for Mississippi IHL University Employees.
SHELLEY supported: Please Enact Paid Parental Leave for Mississippi IHL University EmployeesIn my experience as a faculty member, parental leave is left to department heads, and that process leaves lots of room for bias and inequity in parental leave arrangements. Teaching, research, and service obligations are considered under a complex formula, and most parents have to "pay back" any "extra" time they took to birth and care for an infant. Figuring out the system is far from straightforward, and lack of transparency adds to inequities. This process also makes no special accommodation for staff members, who must rely only on medical leave and FMLA. It is shocking that this supposedly pro-family state should have such retrograde and ungenerous policies around family.
Bonnie supported: Please Enact Paid Parental Leave for Mississippi IHL University EmployeesI'm not a student. But I keep hear stories about students getting disciplined for having their work plagiarized with no evidence. Only a machine telling them that it's been plagiarized. Why not have a human look it over? It's ridiculous that students are having their graduation jeopardized all because a machine says a student's hard work is plagiarized and with no evidence to provide. They need to get rid of this machine as it has done more damage than fix.
Cesar supported: Disable Turnitin AI Detection at UBAs an autistic student, one of the biggest fears I have is being accused of AI plagiarism by a tool that just thinks anything that uses big words or uncommon punctuation is AI, because these are all things I use in my daily life. I may seem robotic to some, but this is just how I am. I don’t want to dumb down my writing, which I am very proud of, just to avoid the constant barrage of AI allegations I have seen others like me get. Students should never be punished for writing “too well” or being too good at something, and there is no tool good enough to truly detect AI use right now.
Patrick supported: Disable Turnitin AI Detection at UBI dream of being a writer, and as an autistic person, find this horrible. I don't believe anyone wants neurodivergent people to fail writing, so please, please, sign this. There is no downside, and if neurodivergent people not being able to write without being accused of plagiarism is a positive to you, you are ableist. Once again, I beg of you, sign, comment, share, make a video, whatever you need to do, to help.
Yisroel supported: Disable Turnitin AI Detection at UBI sit on the disciplinary tribunal at the University of Toronto. Unfortunately AI cheating cases are becoming distressingly common, however this is not the way to handle them. AI detection software is so inaccurate that we do not consider it valid evidence at the tribunal. I encourage the university to reconsider this policy immediately.
Garrick supported: Disable Turnitin AI Detection at UBAs an educator, AI researcher & ethicist, and former admin for my university's TurnItIn account, my biggest regret was enabling the AI detection feature. It seemed useful at the time, but faculty came to rely on it and then began to automatically presume it was an accurate measure of AI usage (which is IMPOSSIBLE for such a system to accurately detect). They didn't understand that such detection systems routinely disadvantage ethnic minorities, adult learners going back to school, people for whom English is a second language, neuro-diverse students, exceptionally good writers, and more. Despite an overwhelming body of research evidence that repeatedly, consistently, and unwaveringly shows this, schools still seem to think AI detection systems are reliable and reasonably accurate. THEY ARE NOT.
I regularly explain to faculty that they should treat "AI detection" scores as a generalized dashboard indicator (like a vehicle's "check engine" warning light): It does NOT automatically mean anything's amiss, but it does suggest that something's going on that needs to be investigated further...in other words, a conversation to better understand might be appropriate. Faculty should NEVER, EVER rely on an "AI detection" score alone to make any judgments or grade determinations!
David supported: Disable Turnitin AI Detection at UBMy 17yo son was found “guilty” of using AI by a panel made up of 3 teachers at his high school in Magnolia, TX. Turnitin flagged his essay as 100% plagiarized. His IB English teacher didn’t bother to ask him questions about the book on which his essay was based, to see if his knowledge of the subject matched what he wrote. One of the panelists (an AP English teacher) stated that it was impossible for a junior to write at a college level. My son received a zero for that assignment and was moved into a regular English class. He is intelligent, an avid reader, and a good kid. We appealed their decision with a carefully written letter challenging the panel’s justification. Unsurprisingly, our request was denied. Sometimes I wonder if the outcome would have been different if my son looked like the majority of the school’s demographic. The impact this experience had on his mental health was significant, and therefore unforgivable.
Marie supported: Disable Turnitin AI Detection at UBDuring high school, Turnitin.com has flagged me for plagiarism on assignments I completed myself, because I had used the same wording across several of my own assignments. Basically, I was flagged for plagiarizing myself and my own thoughts, because their software had seen my work before. Having this happen to me in college, where the stakes are much higher, and I would potentially be delayed or denied graduation because my phrasing is too similar to my own other papers is absurd and terrifying. Turnitin is flawed, and professors need to find other methods of identifying plagiarism and AI use in essays.
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