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About & how to use
Using the framework
- Document or score each major agent initiative or portfolio decision against the relevant dimensions.
- Prioritize by institutional risk and strategic importance — student-facing, high-stakes agents need deeper treatment of governance, equity, and evaluation.
- Use it to structure a landscape scan, a gap analysis against current capabilities, or a multi-year agent strategy.
- Adapt and extend it alongside existing institutional frameworks so the work stays coherent.
Highest-leverage first steps: a prioritized use-case inventory with risk ratings, a governance and human-oversight model, and an evaluation approach that explicitly includes equity and student-success outcomes.
The Campus AI family
- AI Strategic Compass
- Overall strategy and whether to proceed.
- campusaidev.com
- How software is built with AI, from vibe coding to governed multi-agent.
- This guide
- How institutions treat AI agents as governed socio-technical systems.
- campusdatagov.com
- The data foundations agents depend on.
- campusairegistry.com
- Tracking what was built.
- campusaiexchange.com
- Shared campus examples.
How this guide evolves
Agent capabilities and campus practice change quickly. The guide is versioned, each page shows when it was last reviewed, and changes are listed here. Treat older guidance as a starting point to re-check, not a settled answer.
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | 14 October 2026 | New homepage focus on assessing an agent, a three-stage start path, guidance on reading the tier, evidence-type labels on Impact, a standards crosswalk, a References page, and a clearer data-handling note. |
| 1.1 | 13 October 2026 | Added worked scenario pages, full tool and template pages, the six-lens scoring worksheet, and scenario filters. |
| 1.0 | October 2026 | First release: twelve dimensions, six lenses, scenarios, playbooks, control tiers, evaluation, and tools. |