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This reserved space will contain the narrated overview for Policy Family V. The written policy below remains the controlling text.
Purpose and Educational Rationale
Professor Wandt actively engages with generative and agentic AI to understand its strengths, limitations, risks, and implications for higher education, public service, law, policy, investigations, technology, and professional practice. The objective is not novelty or reduced teaching effort. It is direct, critical, and transparent engagement with technology that students are likely to encounter in their careers.
Professor Wandt’s approach draws on experience in technology, law, public policy, academic technology, and online education. AI use in the course is intended to improve understanding, instructional design, feedback, consistency, accessibility, and professional preparation while preserving human responsibility.
How the Instructor May Use AI
AI may assist with:
- designing or revising course materials, examples, activities, rubrics, and technical demonstrations;
- exploring alternative explanations, scenarios, or teaching approaches;
- drafting or refining routine instructional communications;
- analyzing a student submission against a published rubric;
- identifying areas where feedback may be more detailed, consistent, or useful;
- technical, coding, research, accessibility, or administrative support; and
- demonstrating the capabilities, limitations, and failure modes of AI systems.
The course itself may include materials developed through human–AI collaboration. Those materials remain subject to Professor Wandt’s review and responsibility.
Human Responsibility for Teaching, Feedback, and Grades
Professor Wandt remains responsible for the course, the quality of instruction, the final content presented to students, the feedback students receive, and all grading decisions.
An AI system may analyze work, map evidence to a rubric, identify possible strengths or deficiencies, or draft a feedback or grading recommendation. It does not assign the final grade. Professor Wandt reviews the relevant work and remains the decision-maker. Academic-integrity findings and referrals are likewise not delegated to an AI system.
AI-assisted review is intended to support more complete and consistent feedback, but AI can be incomplete, biased, or wrong. A student who believes feedback or a grade rests on an error should raise the specific concern through a private Discord message and use any applicable formal review process.
Instructor Verification and Accountability
Professor Wandt will use professional judgment and reasonable verification when relying on AI-assisted material. Material factual, legal, technical, or academic claims should be checked against appropriate sources before being presented as authoritative. AI use does not transfer responsibility away from the instructor.
Student-Work Privacy and Data Handling
When AI is used to assist with student-work analysis, Professor Wandt will take reasonable steps to minimize unnecessary personal information, use appropriate tools and settings, limit the material shared to what is needed for the instructional task, and protect academic records under applicable College and University requirements.
Student submissions, grades, accommodation information, and private communications will not be used in public examples or external publications in identifiable form without authorization or another lawful basis. A future research study involving student data would require separate compliance with applicable institutional research and consent requirements.
Transparency and Knowledge Sharing
Professor Wandt will be open with students about material uses of AI in course design, instruction, feedback, or evaluation. Relevant successes, limitations, errors, and lessons may be discussed in class, in course materials, in professional workshops, or in policy work, while respecting student privacy.
Instructional use of AI under this policy is not, by itself, a formal research study of students. If that status changes, students will receive the notices and protections required by the applicable process.
Student Requests Concerning AI-Assisted Review
A student who does not want AI used to assist in analyzing that student’s assignments for rubric application or feedback may make a specific request by private Discord message. The request should be made before the first affected submission when possible. Professor Wandt will arrange a human-only review process for future applicable work when feasible and consistent with institutional requirements. Making the request will not itself lower the student’s grade or reduce access to required course processes, although the form or timing of feedback may differ.
If a request involves protected information or must be documented formally, Professor Wandt may redirect it to an official College channel.
Continuing Instructor Engagement
AI use is not a reduction in instructor involvement. Professor Wandt remains engaged in teaching, evaluation, feedback, student support, and course improvement. Students will have opportunities to provide feedback on their experience with course technologies and instructional practices.