University at Albany.
- Detection status
- No AI-text detector confirmed deployed; a named-vendor and category sweep of the Brightspace Instructor FAQ, IT tools catalog, library guides, and teaching-center guidance found none named, and the teaching-and-learning guidance cautions broadly against relying on "AI detection software" without confirming or denying institutional use
- Office in these sources
- Community Standards, Office of the Dean of Students · Campus Center 137, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 · 518-442-5501 · CommunityStandards@albany.edu
- Ombuds or advocacy office
- Graduate Student Ombuds Office — serves graduate students only, not undergraduates; UAlbany states "Ombudspersons do not become involved in formal grievances or judicial proceedings," so the office is not a resource inside an academic-integrity case itself, only before or around one. Current ombudsperson: Lotfi Sayahi, Professor of Spanish Linguistics · lsayahi@albany.edu. No office phone or address is separately published; UAlbany states only that ombudspersons "have agreed to be available to students, both in person and by phone and email."
- Sources last checked
- Sep 23, 2026
Reproduced from the institution's own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.
UAlbany's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. UAlbany is part of the State University of New York system; this page reports only what UAlbany's own campus pages state, since SUNY campuses set AI-detection and academic-integrity procedure independently of one another. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — course syllabi and department-level procedures may also apply. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
What UAlbany's own pages say about detection tools
A named-vendor sweep (Turnitin, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and a category sweep (the Brightspace Instructor FAQ on UAlbany's askIT wiki, the University Libraries' Generative AI and Academic Integrity guide, and the Center for Teaching and Learning's guidance for instructors) found no AI-text detector named or confirmed deployed anywhere on albany.edu or UAlbany's askIT wiki. UAlbany's teaching-and-learning guidance for instructors responding to suspected AI use (retrieved Sep 23, 2026) addresses detection software only in general, cautionary terms:
Source: Respond to suspicions of student cheating with AI — Teaching and Learning. This passage advises instructors against relying on AI detection software as a category; it does not state whether UAlbany itself has any such software enabled, disabled, or licensed campus-wide, and no detector is named. The Brightspace Instructor FAQ on UAlbany's askIT wiki (retrieved Sep 23, 2026) — the current LMS documentation, covering the Brightspace platform SUNY selected system-wide after retiring Blackboard — makes no mention of Turnitin, SafeAssign, originality checking, or AI-writing detection in any form. Source: Brightspace Instructor FAQ — askIT. The University Libraries' "Generative AI and Academic Integrity" guide (dated Apr 8, 2026; retrieved Sep 23, 2026) likewise contains no statement about faculty access to or use of any AI-detection tool. Source: Generative AI and Academic Integrity — University Libraries. No UAlbany page located in this review states that any AI-text detector — Turnitin's or another vendor's — is enabled, disabled, or otherwise in use for identifying AI-generated student writing. That gap, at the scope of the sweeps described above, is the finding.
What UAlbany's own pages say about how cases proceed
- Who may be present
- Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Standards of Academic Integrity page, which governs the ordinary instructor-level process, does not address accompaniment or recording at all. UAlbany's general student code of conduct, Community Rights & Responsibilities, is referenced by name as governing escalated hearings before Community Standards, but its current text could not be located at a stable, fetchable link in this pass — recorded as a deliberate omission, not as a claim that no such provision exists.
- What follows on the record
- "A student's record of violations of academic integrity may be communicated to graduate or professional schools or employers who request such information about applicants who have attended the University at Albany." Retention: "three years beyond the academic year in which the violation occurred" for minor violations, "seven years beyond the academic year in which the violation occurred" for major violations. No transcript-notation statement is located. — Standards of Academic Integrity (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Sep 23, 2026) · Standards of Academic Integrity
The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution's own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.
UAlbany's Standards of Academic Integrity page (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Sep 23, 2026) describes an instructor-first process distinct from the University's general student conduct system:
A second VAIR on the same student, or a faculty member's request that a case be adjudicated at a higher level, forwards the matter to Community Standards for a formal hearing, which can result in "revoking a student's scholarship or fellowship, or teaching or research assistantship, as well as or in addition to disciplinary probation, suspension, or expulsion." No evidentiary standard is stated on this page for either the instructor-level determination or a Community Standards hearing. Source: Standards of Academic Integrity. What these quotations mean for any particular case is for the institution and its process to determine; they are reproduced so you can read the originals in context.
Where the documents live
| Document | Location |
|---|---|
| Standards of Academic Integrity (VAIR process, retention, disclosure) | albany.edu — Standards of Academic Integrity |
| Student Conduct System (referral process) | albany.edu — Student Conduct System |
| Community Standards (office landing page and contact) | albany.edu — Community Standards |
| Respond to suspicions of student cheating with AI (instructor-facing) | albany.edu — Teaching and Learning |
| Brightspace Instructor FAQ | askIT — Brightspace Instructor FAQ |
| Generative AI and Academic Integrity (library guide) | libguides.library.albany.edu (dated Apr 8, 2026) |
| Graduate Student Ombuds Office (graduate students only) | albany.edu — Graduate Student Ombuds Office |
Organizing your own drafts and records to bring to any of this: the records checklist. Capturing the pages above as they read today, and keeping your own dated record beside them: what to do with these sources.
Revision history of this page
2026-09-23 — Page created. First-party material captured from albany.edu (Standards of Academic Integrity, Student Conduct System, Community Standards landing page, and the Teaching and Learning "Respond to suspicions of student cheating with AI" page — none carry an on-page date), askIT's Confluence-hosted Brightspace Instructor FAQ (no on-page date), and the University Libraries' "Generative AI and Academic Integrity" guide (dated Apr 8, 2026). Detector sweep: named-vendor sweep (Turnitin, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and category sweep (Brightspace Instructor FAQ, teaching-center guidance, library guide) came back empty for any AI-text detector confirmed deployed; a UAlbany educational-technology training wiki (knilt.arcc.albany.edu, a course-project site, not an institutional IT or academic-integrity office statement) contains generic instructional material about "how to use plagiarism detection software" and Turnitin as a product category, which is not treated as evidence that UAlbany itself has deployed any such tool. Not disqualified: a genuine empty inventory, not a documented deactivation — same pattern as Hunter College, Baruch College, and North Carolina A&T State University earlier in this queue. SUNY-SYSTEM NOTE: this entry's own queue note asked to resolve UAlbany independently of Buffalo and Stony Brook, both built earlier and independently of each other; no SUNY-systemwide AI-detection statement (of the kind CUNY publishes for its own Turnitin license) was located anywhere in this sweep, so UAlbany's detection status rests entirely on its own campus pages, none of which name a detector. Procedure: the Standards of Academic Integrity page describes an instructor-first VAIR (Violation of Academic Integrity Report) process, distinct from the University's general student conduct system, escalating to Community Standards on a second VAIR or a faculty/dean request; that page states no evidentiary standard for either level and does not address accompaniment or recording. DELIBERATE OMISSION: UAlbany's general student code of conduct, Community Rights & Responsibilities, is referenced by name on the Community Standards and Student Conduct System pages as governing escalated hearings, but the only indexed copy found (albany.edu/studentconduct/assets/Community_Rights_and_Responsibilities_August_30_2019.pdf) now 302-redirects to the Community Standards landing page rather than serving the document — it appears retired rather than merely moved, and no current replacement link was located in this pass's bounded search. Accompaniment, recording, and any evidentiary standard for a formal Community Standards hearing are therefore not stated in the sources reviewed here, rather than assumed from the document's title or from comparable SUNY campuses. OMBUDS: the Graduate Student Ombuds Office is confirmed first-party but is explicitly graduate-students-only, confidential ("Ombudspersons provide students with confidentiality and will not violate their privacy"), and explicitly excluded from formal proceedings ("Ombudspersons do not become involved in formal grievances or judicial proceedings"), so it is not a resource inside an academic-integrity hearing itself. The current ombudsperson's contact (Lotfi Sayahi, lsayahi@albany.edu) is used as published, since no separate office phone or address is stated beyond "available to students, both in person and by phone and email." An earlier search-engine summary attributed a Graduate School general phone number and room address (UAB, Room 121) to this office; that contact was not found on the ombuds page itself and is not used here. No ombudsperson or general student-advocacy office serving undergraduates was located on albany.edu in this review. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-23).
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