Writing Faculty Are Demanding the Right to Refuse AI—and Winning

Universities that moved quickly to sign AI vendor contracts — often for millions of dollars — built adoption incentives into agreements without building exit ramps for faculty who disagreed. The assumption embedded in those deals was that resistance would be manageable: a minority position that professional norms would eventually smooth over. That assumption is now wrong. The are not asking whether AI is useful in the abstract — they are asking who holds authority over pedagogical method, and the contracts their…