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From Inside Higher Ed: Dartmouth University Provost Santiago Schnell resigned Wednesday after a faculty-led review committee concluded that he “used AI to meaningfully alter his writing” and “fell short” of the university’s academic integrity standards. “I expect our senior leaders to hold themselves to the highest standards,” Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock, who has called for “more AI” at the university, wrote in a memo to students, faculty and staff. “Out of respect for his colleagues and the institution, Santiago has resigned as provost and is leaving the university."

...The controversy surrounding Schnell’s AI use started in August when Semafor published an investigation showing that the AI detector Pangram flagged an editorial he wrote for The Washington Post as at least 80 percent AI generated. A few weeks later, The Dartmouth followed up with its own investigation into more of Schnell’s published writings, also using Pangram to detect the extent of AI use. According to the student newspaper, Pangram determined that Schnell’s work was 96 percent “AI-written” across the nine professional articles he published this year, including the Post essay and two academic papers about mathematics. 

...In response to the outcry, Beilock convened an independent advisory committee composed of faculty and alumni to review how Schnell used AI in his writing and determine if he met publishers’ AI-disclosure requirements, if he was honest about his AI use and if that use constituted a violation of Dartmouth policy... The committee noted that Schnell didn’t fully cooperate with their investigation...

Full story a https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2026/10/28/dartmouth-provost-resigns-over-ai-use.