Every class you are taking this term has an AI paragraph somewhere in its syllabus. They do not agree with each other, and nobody is going to walk you through the difference.

Two numbers from the Lumina Foundation and Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education study, and they describe the same students.

57 percent of US college students use AI for coursework at least weekly. About one in five use it daily.

53 percent say their school discourages AI or bans it outright.

Here is the part that reframed this for me. Gallup also asked the students who mostly stay away from AI why they stay away. The top answer was ethics. School policy came second. The least cited reason on the entire list was not knowing how to use it.

Students who avoid AI are not confused about the tool. They are confused about the rule. That is a completely different problem, and it is solvable in one sitting.

Today's teaching session walks through it: read the actual policy language, sort your real habits into allowed, ask first and never, and write the one email that settles the gray area. The free working session is linked in the resources space.

One question, and a number is a complete answer.

How many of your classes this term have told you, in writing, what you ARE allowed to do with AI, rather than only what you are not?