Artificial Intelligence Resources for GWSPH Faculty

Artificial Intelligence Resources for GWSPH Faculty
 

As we begin the 2025/2026 academic year, GWSPH Office of Academic Affairs (AA) and Master Teacher Academy (MTA) are working together to provide our faculty and students with practical guidance, curated resources, and support regarding generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and its potential role in the teaching and learning process for public health education.

What steps should I be taking to prepare my course?

When considering policies and guidance for the use of genAI within your course(s) for students, we recommend looking at your course holistically and taking these three steps. Whether you choose to selectively permit certain uses of genAI, or choose to fully prohibit or allow its use, making your decision clear for why this policy is in place in the context of student learning is important.

1.) Include a syllabus statement regarding the use of genAI in your course. 

• Templated language and several options for the right policy for your course can be found here: Guidelines for Using Generative Artificial Intelligence at the George Washington University
• Please consider further adapting and adding to this templated language, to make clear to students how genAI may or may not be used in the core learning activities of your course.

2.) Review individual assignments in your course and the associated learning goals you have for students. 

• Consider including assignment-level genAI guidance if that particular assignment will allow for additional types of genAI use, or requires additional prohibition.
• Please consider reviewing this draft guidance on increasing AI Clarity regarding the items you should be considering when creating additional guidance for students on particular assignments in your course.
• You will find guidance on creating this guidance from GW Libraries and Academic Innovation’s Deciding on Appropriate Use of GenAI in Academic Classes resource.

3.) Communicate your policies in the classroom during the first class session and as work begins on assignments where additional clarity around genAI use may be needed.

• Guidance on these communications can be found at Communicating Your GenAI Expectations to Your Students.
• Encourage your students to talk with you about any use of generative AI in their coursework that they have questions about, including how its use might influence their learning, and if and how it is permitted for that particular assignment.  

Please note: Should you choose not to include any guidance on genAI in your course materials, the default GW policy is that its use is prohibited (unless expressly stated otherwise by the instructor).  However, we have seen that in the absence of specific guidance, students often make their own decisions about genAI use, and those often do not align with their instructor’s expectations.

GW Provided genAI Tools and Guidance

• Master list of GW Supported genAI Tools
• GW IT provides access to Google Gemini (faculty and staff) includes rate-limited access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s most advanced model.
• Google NotebookLM is enabled for faculty and staff accounts (not students).
• All GW users can access MS Copilot which allows for GPT-5.

Upcoming Workshop Sessions Hosted by GW Libraries and Academic Innovation

• AI and Academic Integrity
  Monday, September 8, 2025 2 – 3pm

• Integrating Bite-Size AI Literacy into Your Course
  Tuesday, September 16, 2025 2 – 3pm

• AI Search Strategies: Leveraging Generative AI for High-Quality Research
  Tuesday, September 23, 2025 1 – 2pm

Coming Soon: GWSPH GenAI IdeaLab (sponsored by AA and the MTA) 

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• genAI Student Series:  GWSPH AA and MTA will be hosting PE credit-eligible workshop sessions for our students focused on AI literacy and practice applications
• GWSPH Faculty genAI Clarity Working Group: This faculty working group has begun meeting regularly to support each other's practices around creating guidance for students around genAI use that can support their learning and avoid associated pitfalls. Please contact Andrew Wiss (awissgwu [dot] edu (awiss[at]gwu[dot]edu)) if interested in joining.
• genAI IdeaLab Faculty Workshops: Starting Fall 2025, genAI Ideal Lab workshop sessions will allow faculty colleagues to share genAI applications they are using in their own courses and develop plans for their own novel applications of genAI.

I’d like some resources I can share with my students to support their understanding of genAI tools.

• Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence V2.0 - 2025 (Elon University and AAC&U)
• Using Generative AI to Support Your Learning as a Student (UChicago)
• Academic Integrity in the AI Era (2U/edX whitepaper)
• For your general awareness, several LLMs now have a “study mode” that may be of use to your students who wish to engage in a discussion based exploration of a specific topic area.
  • https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/