Artificial Intelligence
November 4, 2026
Students hold demonstration for AI autonomy
Goshen College’s Peace and Justice Collective invited students, faculty and staff on Saturday to gather on the lawn in front of the Administration Building as a protest advocating for students’ autonomy around AI. The demands presented by PJC were: “Students to have a voice that’s given weight,” “A guarantee that students can opt-out of using AI without penalty to grades” and “A guarantee that student work will not be fed to AI without express consent.” Attendees were invited to sign a petition agreeing with these demands and to write a letter to GC administration voicing any concerns they had. Over...
October 29, 2026
Websites shut down after global web vulnerability
Artificial intelligence recently uncovered a vulnerability that has existed for 22 years. Researchers have always known that PHP, a programming language for web development that powers over 70% of the world’s websites, had weaknesses that could potentially be exploited. The problem was that when the PHP system ran out of memory while processing a request, it could leave behind old information, such as passwords and personal data. Threat actors, who are people or other entitys with the ability to exploit a threat within cyber security, could potentially access. Although this security risk was known for over two decades, it was...
October 29, 2026
GC highlights AI in convo
Students, faculty and staff of Goshen College gathered on Wednesday at the Church-Chapel for a convocation titled “GC’s AI Task Force: What We’ve Learned, Where We’re Going.” The convocation took the form of a panel discussion which was moderated by dean Ann Vendrely. Faculty panelists were Michelle Blank, the senior director of the Academic Success Center, and Roy Jackson, an associate professor of education. Timothy Okiror, a sophomore computer science and engineering physics major and Shalom Teferi, a junior biochemistry and molecular biology major, represented students. Vendrely opened the discussion by asking the panel how they felt about AI a...
October 16, 2026
BoodleBox comes to GC
Goshen College employees received an email on Oct. 9 with the subject line “You’re Invited: Join Your Team on BoodleBox.” What appeared to some staff as another education technology platform was a far more substantial AI platform designed for staff and students, free for everyone at the college’s expense. Select business and accounting students have had BoodleBox access since Sept. 16, and all students will have access by the end of fall break. Altogether, GC will pay $38,784, or $48 per license, per year. This is significantly less than any equivalent subscription for a specific AI model. For example, a...
October 1, 2026
Alicia Maldonado-Zahra has “very strong convictions” about AI
Alicia Maldonado-Zahra is a scholar-activist fellow working for Goshen College and the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery. She teaches courses in the peace, justice and conflict studies department, and works with student protest groups to ensure their voices are heard. She also has gained a reputation within the college as having strong opinions on AI. Through Maldonado-Zahra’s work with the coalition, she has read through research on the environmental impacts of AI data centers. While the coalition is a Christian group, its practices are also rooted in Native American cosmology. “Mennonites and Native Americans have a lot in...