University of South Florida.

What USF's own documents say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

“The Student may bring one (1) person to serve as an advisor; however that person may not act as a legal representative, argue, present, or participate in any active way in the review, including through communications by verbal, written or electronic promptings with the Student.” — Regulation USF3.027, Academic Integrity of Students (Date of Origin 12-11-08, Date Last Amended 6-2-20; retrieved Aug 23, 2026) · Regulation USF3.027 (PDF)

What follows on the record

“An ‘FF’ grade is noted on the Student’s USF record, indicates academic dishonesty, and is only reflected on unofficial transcripts.” — Regulation USF3.027, Academic Integrity of Students (Date of Origin 12-11-08, Date Last Amended 6-2-20; retrieved Aug 23, 2026) · Regulation USF3.027 (PDF)

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

From Regulation USF3.027, Academic Integrity of Students (PDF; Date of Origin 12-11-08, Date Last Amended 6-2-20, consolidation amendments effective 7-1-20; retrieved Aug 23, 2026):

Source: Regulation USF3.027 — Academic Integrity of Students (PDF, Office of the General Counsel). USF also publishes the regulation through its Box library at usf.app.box.com/v/usfregulation3027, which is the link the university's own student and faculty pages use.

Two USF pages state appeal windows in different terms. The regulation above states fifteen (15) Academic days. Undergraduate Studies' student-facing page states (retrieved Aug 23, 2026): "The most important thing to keep in mind is that you have 10 business days (days the university is open for business) to submit your appeal." Both are reproduced here as published; which applies to a particular case, and how either is counted, is for the institution and its process to determine. Source: Academic Integrity and Ethics — Undergraduate Studies.

From the Office of the Provost's Academic Misconduct page — instructor-facing, and quoted here because it describes the process a student experiences (retrieved Aug 23, 2026):

Source: Academic Misconduct — Faculty Success, Office of the Provost. Undergraduate Studies also states that USF routes integrity notifications and appeal requests through a case-management system: "The university uses the Maxient Case Management system for all Academic Integrity notifications and appeals. Students may access the Academic Integrity Student Appeals Request Form through the link located in the violation and sanction notification letter sent by the respective college." The Office of Graduate Studies publishes its own summary of the same regulation and directs graduate students to Regulation USF3.027 for appeal procedures; USF's flowcharts of the process are published as separate PDFs and are linked in the source map below rather than summarized here. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-08-23 — Page created. All quotations retrieved this date from the usf.edu and genai.usf.edu pages linked beside them. Source-page dates where displayed: Regulation USF3.027 carries Date of Origin 12-11-08, Date Last Amended 6-2-20, Date Last Reviewed 6-2-20, with consolidation amendments effective 7-1-20; the USF web pages quoted displayed no revision dates, so retrieval dates are recorded instead. Turnitin is quoted as USF describes it — a plagiarism-detection system producing similarity reports. No first-party statement enabling a Turnitin AI writing indicator, naming another AI-detection tool in institutional use, or addressing the evidentiary use of AI-detection results was located; the absence is stated on the page and nothing is asserted about it. USF's GenAI Course Guidance statement that detection "is not reliably possible with technology" is quoted as published; this page draws no conclusion from it. The Digital Learning instructor guide "Creating a Turnitin Assignment" and both academic-integrity flowchart PDFs could not be captured as text and are listed by title and link only, with nothing quoted or paraphrased from them — a manual read is required before their contents are characterized here. The differing appeal windows stated by Regulation USF3.027 (fifteen Academic days) and by Undergraduate Studies' student page (10 business days) are reproduced as published, without any determination of which governs. Deliberately omitted: any third-party tracker characterization of USF's detector status, which was not used as a source. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-08-23). Internet Archive captures: to be added.

2026-08-23 — Ombuds capture added this date: USF's Student Ombuds Office was already listed in the source map below and is now hoisted into the docket. The office's own page could not be re-fetched this date, so no phone or email is stated here; capturing its direct contact details is flagged for the next review. Sources re-fetched and compared this date; automated pass, not a human review.

2026-08-23 — Student Ombuds Office captured first-party this date and hoisted into the docket. The link previously recorded here (usf.edu/ombuds/students) resolves to USF's Ombuds Office for faculty and staff; the student office is at usf.edu/student-affairs/ombuds and the link has been corrected. USF's own scheduling page states that electronic exchanges with the office can be discoverable and invites students who do not want a record of the visit to schedule in person; that statement is reproduced as published because it bears directly on how a student in an open matter contacts the office.

2026-08-23 — Section 02 now opens with the two questions an adviser raises first. Both answers were already quoted in this page’s section-02 prose from Regulation USF3.027 and were hoisted into the block rather than re-fetched; the prose below is unchanged. Automated pass; no human review is claimed for this entry.

2026-08-24 — Sources re-fetched and compared this date; automated pass, not a human review. Unchanged and verbatim: the Digital Learning academic-integrity page (Turnitin description), the GenAI Course Guidance and University Guidance pages ("not reliably possible with technology" and the instructor-discretion allocation both confirmed), Undergraduate Studies' Academic Integrity and Ethics page (FF-grade description, 10-business-day appeal statement, Maxient routing), the Office of the Provost's Academic Misconduct page, and Regulation USF3.027, re-read in full from the General Counsel PDF — every quotation on this page, including the AIRB composition, the advisor provision, the FF-grade definition, and the fifteen-Academic-day windows at each appeal stage, matches the current PDF text exactly; the two-tier appeal-window divergence (regulation's 15 Academic days vs. Undergraduate Studies' 10 business days) persists unresolved, as before. CORRECTION: the Student Ombuds Office's own contact page now gives its Tampa room as ALN 191, not ALN 190 as previously recorded, and states the Tampa office is "temporarily closed," directing students to remote (Teams) or phone appointments with named staff (Dr. Jennifer Smith Schneider in Tampa, Laura Zuppo in St. Petersburg) instead; the office's discoverability-notice wording has also changed, from directing students to "come by one of the campus locations to schedule" to directing them to call 813-974-0835 to schedule confidentially — both docket and source map corrected to the current wording. St. Petersburg location (BAY 134) and general phone/email unchanged. Archive captures: still pending — Save Page Now (web.archive.org/save) remains unreachable from this run environment.

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