Chamberlain University.

What Chamberlain's own Handbook says about how cases proceed

Who may be present

Not stated as a right to a support person or advisor. The Hearing Panel review process is written rather than a session the student attends: students have the right "[t]o respond in writing to the allegations for consideration at the Hearing Panel" and "[t]o admit or deny the allegation(s) through a written narrative," with the corresponding responsibility "[t]o provide the written response in a timely manner." No live hearing to attend, no support person or advisor, and no recording are addressed anywhere in the Academic Integrity Procedure for Violations. — Academic Integrity Procedure for Violations (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Sep 4, 2026) · catalog.chamberlain.edu — Academic Integrity Procedure for Violations

What follows on the record

Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Academic Integrity Sanctions page lists course failure, suspension "for up to three semesters," "[p]ermanent expulsion," and "[r]evocation of degree or certificate," but states no transcript notation, no retention period, and no disclosure to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards. A Teachable Moment specifically "is not a sanction and will not be placed in a student's disciplinary record." Chamberlain's general FERPA statement addresses third-party release generally ("only directory information... can be released to any third party without written authorization of the student, judicial order or a lawfully issued subpoena") but does not address an academic-integrity record specifically. Searched: the Sanctions page, the Procedure for Violations page, and the FERPA page. — Academic Integrity Sanctions and Family Education Rights & Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) (retrieved Sep 4, 2026) · catalog.chamberlain.edu — Academic Integrity Sanctions

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

The Procedure for Violations page sets the evidentiary standard and the escalation path from instructor to Hearing Panel (retrieved Sep 4, 2026):

Source: Academic Integrity Procedure for Violations — catalog.chamberlain.edu. The same "more likely than not" standard governs the Hearing Panel's own determination. A Teachable Moment may be issued instead of a sanction: "guidance and/or resources to mitigate behaviors that could be interpreted as or lead to a violation... is not a sanction and will not be placed in a student's disciplinary record."

Appeal is addressed on the same page, with a specific window and named grounds:

Source: Academic Integrity Procedure for Violations — catalog.chamberlain.edu. Grounds are limited to three: new evidence not reasonably available at the time of the original review, procedural irregularities that materially affected the outcome, or a sanction not appropriate to the violation found. A parallel Procedure for Proxy Testing Violations routes through a National Conduct Review Committee and a National Conduct Administrator instead of a course-level Hearing Panel, with the same five-business-day appeal window and the same three grounds. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-09-04 — Page created. All quotations captured this date, first-party, from the catalog.chamberlain.edu and library.chamberlain.edu pages linked beside them; every source quoted here was fetched and read as text rather than summarized. None of the pages quoted displays an on-page revision date; the catalog's own page footer states only the retrieval timestamp and identifies the edition as the "Chamberlain University Academic Catalog 2026-2027," which is recorded here rather than treated as a per-page date. Scope note: Chamberlain publishes three parallel Student Handbooks (College of Nursing, College of Health Professions, MPAS), each with its own Academic Integrity Policy under an identical page structure; this page quotes the College of Nursing Student Handbook as the university's largest population and does not represent the other two as identical, though a spot check of their equivalent pages found the same section structure. Detection sweep recorded for a later reviewer. Named-vendor sweep — Turnitin (including SimCheck and Originality), Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity: Turnitin found and confirmed, alongside an unnamed-vendor "other anti-plagiarism software" alternative, for textual-similarity review of coursework; none of the others found as a named Chamberlain deployment. Category sweep — the College of Nursing Student Handbook's full Academic Integrity Policy chapter (Violations, Procedure for Violations, Sanctions, Teachable Moments, Prevention Techniques for Students); the general Student Rights and FERPA pages; the University Library's AI Literacy guide. Provenance and scope discipline: the proxy-testing section's "proctoring software" and "behavioral analysis of video review" are evidentiary categories the policy names for a specific violation type (another party completing an assessment), not a named AI-text-detection vendor, and are reported at that scope rather than folded into the detector count. Access limit recorded rather than assumed: a "Chamberlain University AI Resources Announcement" PDF, found via a general web search hosted at a third-party learning-management domain (lms.courselearn.net) rather than a chamberlain.edu or catalog.chamberlain.edu address, returned an HTTP 503 error on a direct fetch and could not be read; nothing from it is stated on this page. Disqualification check run on the completed inventory: Chamberlain has not disabled or recommended against detection across the board — Turnitin/anti-plagiarism software is confirmed as an active consent-based deployment, so this is a confirmed-detector page (thin AI-specific inventory, not a disqualification). Nothing paraphrase-pending — every quotation on this page was captured as text from a plain fetch (the catalog pages render most content inside collapsed accordion panels in a browser, but the same text is present in the page's underlying HTML and was captured from that). Absences recorded as findings: no AI-writing-indicator feature is confirmed enabled or disabled anywhere on chamberlain.edu, catalog.chamberlain.edu, or library.chamberlain.edu; no support person, advisor, or recording provision is stated anywhere in the Hearing Panel or appeal process, which is entirely written-submission-based; no transcript notation, retention period, or disclosure to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards is stated beyond Chamberlain's general FERPA third-party-release standard; no ombuds or student-advocacy office was located anywhere on chamberlain.edu or catalog.chamberlain.edu. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-04). Internet Archive captures: to be added.

2026-09-13 — Editorial review. Carrie Schluter read this page in full against its recorded first-party sources and found no change required. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-13).

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