What a row is
Each row is one document, and documents nest within institutions. A single university often governs AI through a provost memo, an honor code clause, a teaching center page, an IT standard, a library guide, a license announcement, and several school policies at once. The census keeps each of these as its own row, with the office that issued it, the readers it addresses, its dates, and a passage quoted from it, so a reader sees where each rule lives and who stands behind it.
Institutions frequently state different rules for AI use across their own documents. A provost policy permits use by default while a school catalog prohibits it, or a teaching center tells instructors to cite an honor code with no mention of AI. The census treats these conflicts and absences as findings about how institutions govern, so the inventory records each contradiction on the document stating it, and the institution log records each integrity code or policy checked and found silent on AI.
Status
The census releases in batches, each archived on Zenodo with its own DOI. The concept DOI above always resolves to the latest version.
Method and authorship
Kirsti K. Cole, North Carolina State University, directs the census, which supplies the quantitative base for her book in progress, The Glitch Curriculum, under review with Johns Hopkins University Press. She designed the sampling frame, the four inclusion tests, and the search protocol, and her coding determines boundary cases. The interpretive coding and the readings on the Reading the census tab are hers, kept separate from the record.
Cite
Data, documentation, and code are released under CC BY 4.0. Quoted passages remain the work of their issuing institutions.
Where to go
- The census site: institutions, contradictions, the user guide, and the reading of the evidence
- Zenodo archive: every released version
- GitHub repository: data files and the sampling-frame script
- kkcole2@ncsu.edu: questions about the census