Northwestern University

University Parts A/B academic standards apply across programs; course and assignment GenAI instructions may differ. Part C procedures apply only to its listed schools; Kellogg, Feinberg and Pritzker have separate professional-school procedures. Unauthorized notes, aids or information on an examination are cheating.

Feinberg medical students must author required assignments themselves unless expressly permitted to use generative AI, and must not enter PHI into unauthorized AI systems.

Feinberg MD students may upload curricular materials only to NU-protected systems requiring institutional credentials; public GenAI uploads require advance approval from Feinberg leadership or content authors, and copyright rules still apply.

Feinberg guidance identifies NM Chat accessed through Citrix/VPN as approved for minimally necessary PHI and restricts public LLMs to public Level 1 data.

Kellogg documents that provider no-training assurances do not remove restrictions on uploading confidential student data or regulated research material.

Kellogg centrally funds defined subscriptions for eligible faculty, staff and PhD students. Its ChatGPT Business and Claude Team workspaces are distinct from personal accounts; workspace access and sensitive-data rules remain separate.

McCormick 2026–27 funds limited AI seats for eligible faculty and staff, including different Claude Enterprise and ChatGPT Business data/contract arrangements.

Northwestern IT advises against Panopto for non-public research data, even though the platform is a university service.

Feinberg medical students submitting work for publication or presentation must follow the relevant journal or organization AI-use disclosure requirements.

Part C sanctions are imposed by the enrollment school, jointly for dual-degree students, and may include warning, suspension, award restrictions, degree revocation or expulsion. First offenses do not guarantee a warning. External reporting restrictions have stated exceptions.

In Part C schools, students receive notice, an opportunity to respond and a written decision; ordinarily the initial meeting is within seven business days of receiving written notice. Reports are due within one month after the reporting person learns of the alleged incident.

University misconduct standard includes AI-generated work submitted without proper attribution; program-specific procedures are not uniform.

Provost Part C provides a written school appeal within ten business days and possible Provost review; the general provisions do not specify the counting start events.

For TGS school-level appeals, the ten-business-day period is expressed from the Associate Dean written decision in IV.A, while IV.D separately uses initial notification for finality.

Northwestern recommended instructors add AI-smart-glasses restrictions to syllabi for Fall 2026, but this communication itself is guidance rather than a universally enacted ban.

Northwestern staff and faculty should use approved data-protection agreements and security-reviewed tools before uploading grades, student work, or evaluations for AI grading.