Bridgewater State University.

What BSU's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

"The faculty member and the student may each request that the department chair or other party from the university (and who is not a relative) be present at this meeting (or on the telephone call) to serve in an advisory role. Invited persons may not participate in the discussion." — Academic Integrity Policy, Section VII.B (retrieved Oct 8, 2026). Recording is not addressed; the policy states only that meetings "may be held in-person, over the telephone or virtually."

What follows on the record

"All academic integrity violation report forms and related documentation are kept within Maxient, the official university database used for this purpose. All materials will be kept strictly confidential for five years after graduation or last enrollment before destruction in accordance with the Commonwealth record retention policy unless the violation resulted in either academic suspension or dismissal. In these instances, the records will be kept permanently." Transcript notation specifically, and disclosure to a party outside the University, are not addressed; not stated in the sources reviewed.

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

The current Academic Integrity Policy (2026–2027 catalog; retrieved Oct 8, 2026) states the undergraduate process this way:

Source: Academic Integrity Policy — 2026–2027 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog. No evidentiary standard (such as a preponderance-of-the-evidence rule) is stated anywhere in this policy. Sanctions range from a verbal or written warning through dismissal from the university, and BSU "reserves the right to implement any one of the sanctions above even if the student has withdrawn from the course, passed the course, or graduated." 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.

Revision history of this page

2026-10-08 — Page created in an unattended scheduled build pass; not a human review. All quotations retrieved this date from the pages linked beside them; none displays its own on-page revision date except the catalog, which states it is the 2026–2027 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog (confirmed current, not the archived prior-year version this pass first located and discarded in favor of the current one). A named-vendor sweep run directly against BSU's public IT Knowledge Base (Turnitin and its AI-writing indicator, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) returned zero results for "turnitin" and confirmed only SafeAssign, scoped to plagiarism/originality. A category sweep of the Academic Integrity Policy, the Center for AI's knowledge-base articles, and the Office of Teaching and Learning's resources found the Center for AI's own statement that "AI detection tools are not currently reliable," directing faculty to engage the student directly and to the Office of Teaching and Learning rather than naming a detector to rely on. Source behind a sign-in, not used. The CAI's "Plagiarism & AI Detection Tools" resource, linked from the knowledge-base article above, is hosted on a BSU SharePoint site requiring university sign-in; it was not fetched, and nothing from it is quoted on this page. Ombuds exclusion, recorded on scope grounds. BSU does operate an Ombuds Office (established 2024), but its own page states explicitly that it serves "faculty, librarians, and staff" and defines "staff" to exclude "student employees" — no description anywhere on the office's pages extends its service to students generally, so it is not presented here as a student resource, consistent with this site's rule against presenting a faculty/staff-only office as general student advocacy. A further search for "student advocacy" and "dean of students" on bridgew.edu located a Dean of Students office handling general conduct and a CARE Team, neither described as independent or confidential in the way an ombuds office is. Record question. The policy's Maxient/five-year retention rule answers retention and confidentiality clearly; it does not address transcript notation or disclosure outside the University, which are recorded as not stated rather than assumed. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-08).

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