In the 2023-2024 academic year, the Center for Teaching and Learning at Baruch College, CUNY, partnered with a group of student research fellows to investigate whether and how undergraduate students from all schools at Baruch were being impacted by the increasing availability of generative AI tools. Our main research question was: How are college students at a large urban public university in the US using and experiencing generative AI as a tool in their learning contexts? We sought to explore this question using multiple methods, including surveys and focus groups, in efforts to shed light on students’ motivations, attitudes towards, and evolving use of generative AI, and to help us guide faculty and inform policy around the use of AI in classrooms at Baruch.
We’re excited to present the final report with detailed findings, insights, and recommendations from our study. We’ve also included our survey and focus group instruments as appendices.