A new Lumina Foundation-Gallup study found that student AI use is frequent even when colleges discourage or prohibit it. Among roughly 4,000 surveyed students, a clear majority reported using tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini every day or week on assignments. The survey found that many institutions still lack clear AI policies or do not communicate them consistently, with about half of students saying some professors haven’t set clear expectations. While most students use AI for learning and time savings, students also reported compliance gaps, ethical concerns, and interest in more training. The report connects student behavior to curriculum alignment concerns: more than 40% of bachelor’s-seeking students said generative AI has caused them to reconsider their major, and respondents indicated that AI readiness is increasingly part of how students evaluate value and fit.