Coastal Carolina University.

What Coastal Carolina's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

The Code's general rights section states every respondent under the Code of Student Conduct has "The right to a personal advisor, whose role is to advise the student or organization rather than actively represent." The Academic Integrity Code's own resolution process, separately, names only the instructor and the respondent as participants at the student-faculty meeting, "and may also include the student(s), faculty member(s), or staff member(s) who observed and reported the infraction." It adds: "At the request of the faculty member or student, an AIO may be present at this meeting." Both provisions are reproduced as published; neither one names the other, and recording is not addressed anywhere in the Academic Integrity Code section.

What follows on the record

No transcript notation is stated for an academic integrity violation. The available sanctions include a grade of FX in the course, which the Code states means "the student will not be able to drop the course, petition a grade change, or use the grade forgiveness policy" — a course-level consequence, not a stated transcript flag. On retention, the Code states elsewhere that "[d]isciplinary records not involving a suspension or permanent dismissal from the University are maintained for a period of seven years. Records resulting in a suspension or permanent dismissal of a student will be retained for a period of time no less than 99 years," while separately stating that academic integrity case files specifically are "maintained by the Office of Academic Integrity" rather than by the Dean of Students Office the retention clause describes — both reproduced, not reconciled. No disclosure provision (to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards) was located.

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

From the Code of Student Conduct 2025–2026 (Revised July 2025; retrieved Sep 28, 2026), Section III.E, Resolution Process for Academic Violations:

The Code's general rights section separately states that "[t]he preponderance of the evidence is the default standard of proof for determining violations of the Code of Student Conduct," an exception list that does not name the Academic Integrity Code; that general standard is reproduced here because the Academic Integrity Code's own resolution process does not restate an evidentiary standard of its own. Sanctions at the student-faculty stage range from a written warning through a grade of F on the assignment or in the course, FX in the course, or an academic integrity workshop; a second violation is referred to the College Academic Integrity Committee (CAIC), which may also impose disciplinary suspension or permanent dismissal. The Code states that the dean's decision on an appeal from a CAIC hearing is the final step of the resolution process, with no further campus-internal appeal named. Source: Code of Student Conduct 2025–2026, Sections II.B.2 and III.E–F. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-09-28 — Page created by a scheduled, unattended build pass. All quotations retrieved this date from coastal.edu pages linked beside them, from the Office of Digital Learning's Academic Integrity Tools research guide (page dated Sep 25, 2026), and from the Code of Student Conduct 2025–2026 PDF (Revised July 2025, the current edition live on coastal.edu at build time). Detection-inventory sweep performed: named-vendor sweep (Turnitin, Turnitin AI writing indicator, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and category sweep (Moodle help pages, the Libraries' Academic Technology Resources guide, both AI Central hubs, the Office of Academic Integrity's own page, and the Code of Student Conduct) came back empty of any first-party statement that an AI-text detector is deployed. NOT DISQUALIFIED: this is an empty inventory, not a documented deactivation or a recommendation against detection — Coastal Carolina's pages are simply silent on AI-writing detection specifically, while confirming Turnitin for similarity/plagiarism checking and Respondus for exam proctoring. The Libraries' own guide links to Turnitin's external AI-detection marketing pages under a "Turnitin AI Detection Tool" heading, but that heading carries no Coastal Carolina statement that the feature is enabled; recorded as a listed-but-unconfirmed link, not evidence of deployment. PROCESS SOURCE: Section III (Academic Integrity Code) of the Code of Student Conduct 2025–2026, cross-checked against Section II's general respondent-rights list for the evidentiary standard and personal-advisor right, since Section III's own resolution process does not restate either. DIVERGENCE reproduced, not resolved: Section II states a general right to a personal advisor for any Code of Student Conduct case; Section III's own academic-violation hearing process names only the instructor, the respondent, and (on request) an academic integrity officer as participants, without mentioning an advisor. SUBSTANTIVE ABSENCE: no transcript-notation provision is stated for an academic integrity violation (the FX sanction is course-level only); the Code's general seven-year/99-year retention clause is stated for records maintained by the Dean of Students Office, while academic integrity case files are separately stated to be maintained by the Office of Academic Integrity, and the Code does not say whether the same retention schedule applies to the latter; no disclosure provision was located. OFFICE: the Office of Academic Integrity publishes only a named officer's phone and email (Frederick Wood, 843-349-6594, aiofficer@coastal.edu), with no office-specific address; the university's general campus address appears only in the page footer and is not presented here as the office's own. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY CHECKED, NONE FOUND FOR STUDENTS: Coastal Carolina's Ombuds Services page states plainly, "Ombuds Services offered by Coastal Carolina University currently serve both faculty and staff" — excluding students by its own terms. Student Empowerment and Advocacy (Dean of Students Office) is student-facing but names no academic-integrity scope among its listed services and states its own limits rather than describing itself as confidential or independent: "Student Empowerment and Advocacy is not therapy. […] While confidentiality cannot be guaranteed, information will only be shared strictly on a need-to-know basis." Neither was substituted for an ombuds; docket states none located. TRANSPORT NOTE: a search engine's own indexing attributes the Academic Integrity Tools guide to a "coastal-grad.libguides.com" address, which does not resolve; the live guide is served from coastal-provostoffice.libguides.com at the same catalog parameters and was fetched directly from there. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Subreddit demand scan not run (outside this run's research method). Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-28).

2026-10-06 — Internet Archive captures requested on 2026-09-28 by an automated capture pass and recorded this date; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. Captures added: for students → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121049/https://www.coastal.edu/aboutccu/ai-central/students-and-families-ai-guidelines-and-resources/; coastal.edu/academicintegrity → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121200/https://www.coastal.edu/academicintegrity/; Code of Student Conduct 2025–2026 → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121228/https://www.coastal.edu/media/2024siteassets/contentassets/documents/deanofstudentsoffice/codeofstudentconduct/CodeofStudentConduct2025-2026.pdf; coastal.edu/ombuds → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121250/https://www.coastal.edu/ombuds/; Moodle — Student Computing Services → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121332/https://www.coastal.edu/scs/moodle/; coastal.edu/sea/studentresources → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121408/https://www.coastal.edu/sea/studentresources/.

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