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What the Maverick Guide says about how cases proceed

Who may be present

Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Maverick Guide's Academic Dishonesty procedure describes meetings and an appeal hearing before the Academic Dishonesty Committee (ADC) involving "the student, the instructor, and the authority to whom the appeal was subsequently directed," plus "a request… for a student representative to be appointed by the Associated Student Government (ASG)" on the Committee itself — but names no right for the accused student to bring an advisor, support person, or attorney, and does not address recording anywhere in the procedure.

What follows on the record

The undergraduate catalog's Glossary of Terms states: "The grade of 'FX' indicates course failure due to academic dishonesty. Students may repeat the course to meet graduation requirements; however, the 'FX' grade will remain on the transcript and will be calculated in the GPA as a failing grade." Separately, the Maverick Guide states uncontested or unsuccessfully contested cases are "recorded and submitted… to the Office of Academic Affairs," which "will keep these reports on file," whose "sole purpose… is to determine whether a student… has committed comparable infractions" in the future. No further disclosure or release rule is stated.

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

The Maverick Guide (retrieved Oct 4, 2026) sets a faculty-first process: "Faculty members have the authority to impose sanctions for academic dishonesty and have the leeway to handle such incidents as they see fit; they are not required to involve parties other than the offender(s)." The appeal path runs through four possible steps:

No provision of this procedure states an evidentiary standard such as preponderance of the evidence. On sanctions, instructor-level penalties include "giving a reduced grade or giving a failing grade for the assignment/compromised exam or issuing a failing grade for the course," while the ADC "can rule as to the gravity of the incident and the corresponding degree of sanction," with "[p]enalties up to and including expulsion or suspension of the student from the University." Source: The Maverick Guide (PDF, updated August 2025). What these quotations mean for any particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-10-04 — Page created. Cold build; no prior CANDIDATES.md or procedure-facts.json research to reuse. Named-vendor sweep (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 (the Center for Digital Learning & Innovation's faculty-resources pages, the University Libraries' "Plagiarism and AI" guide, the undergraduate catalog, and the Maverick Guide) found Turnitin confirmed for plagiarism prevention only, with the page's one AI-related link pointing out to Turnitin's own vendor marketing page rather than stating a CMU-side deployment; no AI-text detector of any kind is confirmed deployed. NOT DISQUALIFIED: empty inventory for a deployed detector, not a documented deactivation. STALE-PDF TRAP CAUGHT: web search repeatedly surfaced a 2021-dated Maverick Guide PDF (coloradomesa.edu/student-services/images/2021-maverick-guide-final.pdf); the current document, linked from the Maverick Guide landing page and dated "Updated: August 2025" on its own title page, was fetched instead from coloradomesa.edu/student-services/documents/maverick-guide.pdf. A WebFetch-tool summary of the landing page also proposed a nonexistent "maverick-guide-final-2026-page-number-update.pdf" URL that 404s; not used, and the error caught before citing it. CATALOG CURRENCY: catalog.coloradomesa.edu without a year path serves the current 2026-2027 catalog; its Glossary of Terms page supplied the FX transcript-grade finding, resolving an earlier "pending Board of Trustees approval in August 2026" note that a stale search snippet had raised — that approval date has passed and the FX grade is now live policy language in the current Glossary. AI-AS-DISHONESTY, NOT AI-AS-DETECTED: the Maverick Guide's own numbered list of academic-dishonesty categories includes "Unauthorized use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) including but not limited to, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and/or Grammarly" as item 5 of 10 — a policy-level naming of AI as a form of dishonesty, carefully distinguished on the page from a detection-tool finding, since the Guide states no mechanism for identifying such use. PROCESS: the Academic Dishonesty appeal procedure (Maverick Guide) runs instructor → Academic Department Head → Academic Dishonesty Committee (ADC, chaired by the Assistant Vice President for Student Success) → Vice President for Academic Affairs, with no evidentiary standard, no accompaniment right, and no recording provision stated anywhere in the procedure's own text; the ADC seats three faculty plus a requested ASG student representative, and "[a]ll materials reviewed by the ADC are protected, where appropriate, by… FERPA." RECORD FINDING, STRONGER THAN THE PRIOR THREE BUILDS THIS PASS: unlike southalabama, arkansastech and astate, CMU states both a transcript-notation rule (the FX grade, from the catalog) and a retention purpose (the Academic Affairs file, "sole purpose… to determine whether a student… has committed comparable infractions," from the Guide) — both quoted rather than left as an absence. OFFICE: Office of Academic Affairs, Lowell Heiny Hall (LHH) 209, 970-248-1881, confirmed on the office's own contact page; no general office email is published there. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY CHECKED AND NOT FOUND: a "Student Advocacy and Health" office was located (Director: Anna Lee Walker, LPC, LAC, 970-248-1754) but is a licensed-counseling/wellness office — "[a]ll sessions are confidential and students dealing with personal problems affecting their academic life are encouraged to speak with a professional counselor" — not described anywhere as assisting with navigating an academic-dishonesty case, so it is not substituted for an ombuds or process advocate; no office titled ombudsperson or ombudsman was located on coloradomesa.edu. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-04).

2026-10-06 — Internet Archive captures requested on 2026-10-05 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: catalog.coloradomesa.edu — Glossary of Terms → https://web.archive.org/web/20261005123623/https://catalog.coloradomesa.edu/glossary-terms/; Plagiarism and AI — CMU Libraries → https://web.archive.org/web/20261005123653/https://libguides.coloradomesa.edu/c.php?g=1429765&p=10609845; Turnitin Feedback Studio — Center for Digital Learning & Innovation → https://web.archive.org/web/20261005123819/https://www.coloradomesa.edu/digital-learning-innovation/folder/faculty-resources/turnitin-feedback-studio.html; The Maverick Guide → https://web.archive.org/web/20261005123845/https://www.coloradomesa.edu/student-services/documents/maverick-guide.pdf.

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