A dean has been pushing the academic integrity board to be less "mean" in their punishments. I have had 12 cases of generative AI use this semester on lab reports. I have been venting to colleagues and this colleague (let's call her Jane) also expressed frustration on my behalf and alarm at the amount of AI use. In general, most members of the faculty no longer trust the students and believe consequences for cheating are not harsh enough to be effective deterrents. Jane is known to be extremely forgiving and permissive of students, but has recently been indicating more frustration at what she is finally seeing as too much cheating. Jane is also a dean and today I learned that she has been speaking to members of the academic integrity board and telling them that the consequences they are doling out are too harsh. She believes in redemption, apparently without any remediation.…