Kennesaw State University.

What KSU's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

“The student may request an advisor (see procedure above) be present during the informal or formal meeting. However, the accused student must sign a FERPA waiver allowing the advisor to be present, and such parties may not participate in the informal meeting in any way except at the direct request of the accuser and/or facilitator.” The procedure cross-referenced there states that a party “shall have the right to have an advisor (who may or may not be an attorney) of the party’s choosing, and at their own expense, for the express purpose of providing advice and counsel.” — Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures, SCAI, “Who May Attend” under the academic misconduct informal meeting (no on-page date displayed; filename dated 11.2025; retrieved Aug 27, 2026). Whether an academic-misconduct meeting may be recorded is not stated in the sources reviewed: the document’s only reference to audio or video recording of proceedings sits in the section on non-academic student misconduct, which states “These procedures apply to matters relating to student misconduct, except matters relating to academic dishonesty, which are covered under separate institutional policies.” · SCAI Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures (PDF)

What follows on the record

Not stated in the sources reviewed. KSU publishes no transcript-notation provision, no retention period, and no disclosure rule for academic-integrity findings on the pages searched. What the procedures do say is that the question is referred to the office: “If the student has questions on record retention those questions can be forwarded to SCAI.” The same document states that a completed academic misconduct incident form is sent to SCAI “to create a formal disciplinary record and/or initiate a formal meeting process, as appropriate to the case.” Searched for this row: the SCAI Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures (every occurrence of “transcript,” “retention,” “retain,” “expunge” and “record”), the KSU Student Codes of Conduct, the SCAI FAQs, students and faculty pages, and the Registrar’s Student Academic Records pages. — Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures, SCAI (no on-page date displayed; filename dated 11.2025; retrieved Aug 27, 2026) · SCAI Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures (PDF)

The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution’s own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.

From the SCAI Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures and the Code of Academic Integrity it carries (no on-page date displayed; filename dated 11.2025; retrieved Aug 27, 2026):

Source: Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures — SCAI. The document also states, for cases where the informal route ends without agreement, that “the accuser or facilitator explains that the case cannot be resolved informally, and that it will be referred to SCAI for a formal meeting,” and that where suspension, expulsion or revocation of degree is assigned, “there is the possibility of appeal” and “information on how to appeal will be included in the decision letter sent to the accused student.”

Two scope lines in that same document are worth reading in the original rather than through a summary. The general student-conduct standards, which are where the advisor right, the investigation standards and the documentation-of-proceedings language sit, carry their own limit: “These procedures apply to matters relating to student misconduct, except matters relating to academic dishonesty, which are covered under separate institutional policies.” The academic-misconduct section nonetheless imports the advisor procedure by cross-reference, which is the basis for the row above. KSU's SCAI FAQs separately state, of conduct meetings generally, that a parent or attorney may attend “with your written permission,” but that “they are permitted only as Advisors and are not permitted to ask questions or make statements once the hearing begins” (page metadata dated Jan 6, 2026; retrieved Aug 27, 2026): Student Conduct and Academic Integrity FAQs.

Located but not captured as quotation in this review: the composition and jurisdiction rules for the SCAI University Hearing Panel, the interim-measures provisions, and the Board of Regents discretionary-review route that follows a final institutional decision. These sit in the same procedures document, which runs past a hundred pages in its published form. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-08-27 — Page created. All quotations retrieved this date from the kennesaw.edu pages linked beside them, each fetched directly rather than read from a search result. Source page dates, taken from each page's own modification metadata: Additional AI Resources, Jul 17, 2025; Integrated Technologies (D2L), Jul 29, 2025; Instructional Resources, Aug 7, 2026; Software Downloads, Jun 25, 2026; AI Use Guidelines, Aug 19, 2026; SCAI FAQs, Jan 6, 2026; SCAI contact page, Apr 28, 2026; SCAI landing page, Aug 24, 2026; Office of the Ombuds, Feb 2, 2026; KSU News feature, Aug 21, 2024. The University Libraries FAQ carries an on-page date of Nov 5, 2025. The SCAI Misconduct Policies and Resolution Procedures PDF displays no date on its face; its filename is dated 11.2025 and the page is cited that way rather than asserting an effective date KSU does not print. Detection sweep. Named-vendor sweep on kennesaw.edu returned Turnitin (listed by UITS under “Turnitin (AI Features)” among AI tools available through KSU, and integrated with D2L Brightspace), iThenticate (UITS software catalogue, scoped to research papers, separate account), and the Respondus stack (LockDown Browser and Monitor, documented as automated proctoring, with no AI-writing-detection claim made by KSU). The following came back empty on KSU's own domain: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Examity, and Turnitin's SimCheck and Originality product names. Category sweep covered the D2L Brightspace integrated-technologies catalogue, the UITS software-downloads and instructional-resources catalogues, the UITS AI section, the University Libraries technology FAQ, the SCAI pages, and the SCAI procedures document; the Graduate College's own thesis and dissertation pipeline was not separately reachable in this review beyond the UITS iThenticate entry, so no graduate-scoped detector claim is made here. No first-party KSU statement on Turnitin's AI writing indicator as a distinct product was located, and the page says so rather than importing the vendor's description. Deliberate omissions. The UITS “Additional AI Tools” list — ChatGPT, Grammarly, Perplexity and others — is recorded as third-party listing rather than deployment, on the strength of KSU's own line that those tools “are not supported by KSU, nor is their use endorsed by the university”; none of them is an AI detector. No commentary on litigation or news coverage is included. Divergence reproduced without resolution. KSU publishes two different locations for SCAI: the FAQs page (page metadata Jan 6, 2026) states “Carmichael Student Center, 2nd floor, room 274,” while the office's own contact page (page metadata Apr 28, 2026) states Willingham Hall, Suite 230, 420 Bartow Avenue. The docket and source map use the contact page as the office's own and more recent statement; the FAQ text is recorded here rather than silently dropped. Both pages give the same phone number, 470.578.3403. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-08-27).

2026-08-27 — Internet Archive captures: to be added.

2026-08-29 — Sources re-fetched and compared this date; an automated source re-verification, not a human editorial review. Every first-party source linked here was fetched again and compared against the page: the UITS AI-resources, integrated-technologies and instructional-resources pages, the SCAI faculty/staff, FAQ, landing and contact pages, the KSU-embraces-AI news feature (still dated Aug 21, 2024), the software-downloads page (iThenticate), the AI guidelines page, the Student Code of Conduct PDF, the SCAI Misconduct Procedures PDF (scai-misconduct-procedures-11.2025.pdf), the library integrity guide (still Last Updated Nov 05, 2025) and the Ombuds page. All quotations still present verbatim and all stated dates intact. One housekeeping finding, recorded for a future citation migration rather than acted on this pass: the SCAI landing page now links a newer-filename procedures document, misconduct-procedures-ay-8.2026.pdf, whose quoted language matches this page's citations; the scai-misconduct-procedures-11.2025.pdf this page cites throughout section 02 and the source map remains live and its quotations verify verbatim, so no link was changed. Detection sweep re-run: no net-new detector and no disable or recommend-against — Turnitin (with its AI features, in D2L Brightspace), iThenticate (research papers) and Respondus LockDown Browser with Monitor remain the documented tools. SCAI contact and the Ombuds office confirmed unchanged (the FAQ still carries the Carmichael Student Center address divergence the build recorded). Internet Archive captures were requested this date but Save Page Now was unavailable and rate-limited from this environment; captures remain to be added. Automated research pass.

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