Educators are leaning into AI transparency as a classroom strategy, pairing instruction on ethical use with clearer expectations about when student work must remain human-authored. The approach focuses on helping students navigate generative AI for research, ideation, and revision while establishing explicit boundaries for assignment requirements. The reporting notes that AI skills are increasingly expected in workforce settings, citing a McKinsey study that found most organizations using AI in at least one business function, along with rapid growth in AI-related job-posting requirements. Against that backdrop, instructors are using transparency to enable more productive conversations and to reduce academic integrity conflicts. One highlighted example describes a Delaware County Community College English professor who discourages AI substitution, teaches prompting skills, and uses detection software to support enforcement in the course setting. Separately, a survey-driven report says students increasingly use AI for learning support but worry about false accusations of misconduct.