University of Mississippi.

What UM's own policy says about how cases proceed

Who may be present

“The student and faculty member initiating the case shall be permitted, at his/her expense, to have an advocate or legal counsel provide support for him or her at the hearing and through all other stages of the academic discipline process.” The policy limits that role: “The role of the advocate or legal counsel shall be limited to an advisory capacity only.” On recording: “Hearings before the Academic Discipline Committee shall be recorded.” — Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001), effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026 · UM Policy Directory — Academic Conduct and Discipline

What follows on the record

“All suspensions shall be permanently noted on the student’s transcript.” For expulsion: “A notation shall be placed on the student’s transcript.” For probation: “Academic disciplinary probation does not appear on a student’s transcript,” though probation “constitutes a warning that is noted in the academic discipline database for the student.” The policy does not address disclosure to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards. — Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001), effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026 · UM Policy Directory — Academic Conduct and Discipline

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

From the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001, effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026):

The same policy states that a hearing recording "shall be preserved until the time for all avenues of appeal available to the student have expired," and that "At the student’s request, and at his/her own expense, copies shall be made available." Decisions of the Academic Discipline Committee are final under the policy "unless the final sanction includes suspension or expulsion," in which case the policy provides a written appeal to the chancellor "within five working days" of receipt of the written decision; for graduate students the dean of the Graduate School reviews committee decisions recommending sanctions. Source: UM Policy Directory — Academic Conduct and Discipline (ACA.AR.600.001). The Undergraduate Catalog carries a digest of the same rules and notes that the Schools of Law and Pharmacy "deal with disciplinary infractions through their student bodies, which maintain Honor Code systems": UM Catalog — Academic Regulations, Academic Conduct (retrieved Aug 30, 2026). What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine; the passages are reproduced so you can read the originals in context.

Revision history of this page

2026-08-30 — Page created. All quotations retrieved this date from the olemiss.edu pages and documents linked beside them. First-party captures: the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001, PDF via the UM Policy Directory, effective date Jun 28, 2021); the Undergraduate Catalog's Academic Conduct digest; the Libraries Artificial Intelligence Guide Faculty Resources page (created Nov 13, 2023; modified Jun 4, 2026); the CETL Syllabus Template (a Word document served from the Libraries guide platform, read as text this date; it displays no on-page date); the UM Blackboard SafeAssign support PDF (no on-page date; its filename suggests the Blackboard 2019 documentation series); the UM Testing Center instructor and online-testing pages; and the University Ombuds site. Detection sweep recorded: named vendors searched on UM's own domains were Turnitin (with SimCheck and Originality), Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, and Examity; categories searched were the Blackboard support materials, the Testing Center's proctoring stack, the Graduate School's thesis-and-dissertation pipeline (which documents ProQuest formatting review and names no detector), the Libraries guides, and CETL guidance. All came back empty for AI-writing detection; SafeAssign (text-matching) and Respondus LockDown Browser/Monitor with a ProctorU option (exam proctoring) were the tools found. Deliberate omissions: a 2020 university news article and COVID-era teaching pages once documented Proctorio for remote testing, but both addresses now redirect to general pages, so Proctorio is not stated on any current page located in this review and is not listed as deployed; a Turnitin-authored "Plagiarism Spectrum" module on a UM course-content server is recorded as educational content, not deployment. The University Ombuds is recorded with the scope its own pages state — faculty, staff, and graduate students — which excludes undergraduates; no undergraduate-serving ombuds or independent advocacy office was located on UM's own pages in this review. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-08-30). Internet Archive captures: to be added.

2026-09-01 — Source re-verification, and a capture-tooling gap closed. All eight linked sources re-fetched and compared against this page: the Academic Conduct and Discipline PDF (re-read in full — Effective Date 06/28/2021, unchanged), the Undergraduate Catalog's Academic Conduct digest, the Libraries AI Guide, the CETL Syllabus Template docx, the Blackboard SafeAssign PDF, both UM Testing Center pages, and the University Ombuds site — every quotation verbatim and unchanged. TOOLING NOTE, not a page defect: this repository's capture pipeline had never actually captured the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy's own text — the "Policy Details" page it captured is only a metadata listing whose narrative is itself a PDF link, and nearly every section-02 quotation rests on that PDF. The recipe now captures the PDF directly as its own source. Two other recipe entries were also corrected: the CETL Syllabus Template link, previously marked as serving no readable body, in fact serves a .docx file directly and now captures as one; and the Undergraduate Catalog's Conduct page, previously blocked, now captures via a browser session. Two quotations in the ombuds docket row are marked with the site's bracket convention this pass, not changed in substance: UM's page lists "Handle academic complaints, such as grade appeals" and "Participate in any formal grievance process" as bare list items under a heading naming what the office does not do, and this page's prose supplies the negation the list format implies, now marked with a bracketed does-not rather than folded into the quotation marks unmarked. Detection sweep re-run (named-vendor and category); no AI-writing detector found, absence stands. Office contacts (University Ombuds) re-confirmed unchanged. This is a source re-verification pass, not human review.

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