en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <ul> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span>This paper proposes the Three-Layer University Agentic AI Governance Model (TUAIGM), a proposed governance model for universities that are beginning to consider agentic AI in areas where decisions directly affect students.<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif"></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span lang="EN-CA">The paper argues that agentic AI exposes three governance weaknesses: diffused accountability, goal misalignment, and behavioural drift. These risks are especially difficult in universities because authority is already distributed across board, administrative, and faculty structures.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span lang="EN-CA">The TUAIGM assigns oversight responsibilities to three institutional layers and connects them through escalation, authorisation, reporting, and vendor-accountability flows.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span lang="EN-CA">The framework has not been empirically tested. It is a proposed governance model that tries to make responsibility, monitoring, and intervention more explicit before agentic systems become embedded in university operations.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span lang="EN-CA">The main contribution is applying principal-agent theory to the multi-principal university setting, where board, administration, and faculty share authority but do not always share the same priorities.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> Agentic AI, Higher Education Governance, Principal–Agent Theory, Accountability, Shared Governance, Student Rights 147 153 http://johepal.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1723-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Amin Safaei 10031947532846005257 10031947532846005257 Yes Nottingham Trent University (NTU) Mahshid Safaei 10031947532846005258 10031947532846005258 No Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU)