Now you’re allowed to use ChatGPT and other GAI tools in your exams at AU

09 September 2024 Article

Generative AI (GAI) tools are here to stay, according to AU. Therefore, you’re allowed to use GAI in your exams, unless the academic regulations or course description explicitly state otherwise.

27 August 2024 Article

New principles aim to assist AU staff in navigating AI tools: “Don’t use it for confidential data”

AU has adopted seven principles for using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to help staff and managers use these tools responsibly. The guidelines emphasise the importance of disclosing any use of GAI and encourage staff to use standard search engines when possible, as GAI tools use significantly more power.

26 August 2024 Article

‘Denmark’s biggest Friday bar’ reduces ticket sales by 5,000: Doesn’t want to become a one-day festival

After the chaos last year, when Johnson’s concert was cut short after just a few songs, the Student Council has decided to reduce the number of tickets for ‘Denmark's biggest Friday bar’ by 5,000. The goal is to make the event feel more like a Friday bar and less like a festival, they say.

22 August 2024 Article

AU to downsize in the coming years: How the faculties are addressing the reductions

The sector resizing will affect the five faculties at AU very differently. Arts has to reduce its number of student places by nearly 18 per cent, while in contrast Technical Sciences can offer new study places. The faculties must decide for themselves which student places to cut – and this is challenging, according to the deans.

16 August 2024 Opinion

COLUMN: Rector: "We’re facing tough decisions"

Like all universities in Denmark, Aarhus University will have to educate fewer young people from 2025. This is a result of the political agreement behind the Master’s reform. AU must reduce its admissions by 545 student places, and 200 of its existing places must be converted to new ones. The senior management team has just decided how the reductions will be distributed across the faculties. Now the faculties have to decide how they will implement these enrolment caps at degree programme level. This is neither an easy nor an enviable task, writes Brian Bech Nielsen in this month’s column by the senior management team.

05 August 2024 Article

Food service provider at Royal Danish Library to take over canteen operations in more AU locations

Compass Group has won the tender to run canteens at Nobel Park, the Aarhus School of Dentistry, Aarhus BSS in the University Park, and Stakladen/the Conference Centre. The company already runs the canteen at the Royal Danish Library in Aarhus.

01 August 2024 Article

Academic publisher sells access to researchers’ articles to Microsoft AI – AU professor feels deceived

The academic publishing house Taylor & Francis has sold access to its research articles to tech companies for AI development. Researchers who have published in their journals were not informed. Professor Peter Dalsgaard feels deceived and calls for a new approach to collaboration with major publishers.