Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania.

Detection status: No AI-text detector is named on Commonwealth University's own policy, helpdesk, or teaching pages across a named-vendor and category sweep; Turnitin is confirmed only for similarity/plagiarism checking, and the Academic Integrity Policy names unauthorized AI use as dishonesty without naming a detection tool
Office in these sources: Office of the Provost (Responsible Office for the Academic Integrity Policy), Attn: Vice Provost · 570-389-3803 · viceprovost@commonwealthu.edu — no office street address is published in this source
Ombuds or advocacy office: None located on the institution's own pages in this review.
Sources last checked: Sep 30, 2026

Reproduced from the institution's own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. Commonwealth University was formed from the 2022 integration of Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield Universities; the pages quoted here are the University-wide policies issued since that integration. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — course syllabi and department- or program-specific rules may also apply. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01Detection status

No AI-text detector is named; unauthorized AI use is defined as dishonesty

Commonwealth University's Policy 1-02: Academic Integrity Policy (endorsed by the University Senate Apr 11, 2024; issued by the President May 31, 2024; retrieved Sep 30, 2026) lists, among the examples of Cheating:

"Unless expressly permitted by a faculty member, use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other online services for the creation of content for any exam or assignment."

This defines unauthorized AI use as a form of academic dishonesty; it does not name any tool used to detect it. Source: Policy 1-02: Academic Integrity Policy (PDF).

Separately, Commonwealth University's helpdesk describes Turnitin, available through the Brightspace learning management system, in similarity-checking terms only: "Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool that helps instructors review originality in student submissions." No AI-writing-detection feature is named on this page. Source: How do I add Turnitin to an Assignment — CommonwealthU Helpdesk (no on-page date; retrieved Sep 30, 2026).

A named-vendor sweep of commonwealthu.edu (Turnitin AI writing indicator, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and a category sweep (the Academic Integrity Policy, the Student Code of Conduct, the helpdesk's learning-technology articles, and a University news article on AI in the Instructional Design and Technology program) found no detector beyond Turnitin's similarity checker. One program carries a stricter, narrower rule: the Breiner School of Nursing's student handbook states a "Zero Tolerance Policy" naming ChatGPT, Grammarly, Grammarly AI, and QuillBot as examples of tools whose use "is strictly prohibited for the completion of any academic work in the Breiner School of Nursing, unless explicit written permission is granted by the instructor for a specific assignment," with penalties escalating from a zero on the assignment (first offense) to course failure (second offense). This names no detection tool either; it is a program-specific prohibition, not a University-wide one. Source: Breiner School of Nursing BSN Student Handbook (PDF; retrieved Sep 30, 2026).

02Published process

What Commonwealth University's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present: Not stated in the sources reviewed for a Level III hearing before the Academic Grievance Board specifically. Policy 1-02 does not itself address who may accompany a student. The University's separate Student Code of Conduct defines an Advisor right — "An individual who may be present to support a party throughout the conduct process," who "may accompany the party they are supporting to any hearing or meeting that the party is required to attend" — but that Code states its own Due Process chapter governs "any charged violation of this Code," while its Prohibited Conduct section directs academic-misconduct allegations instead to "specific procedures outlined in the University's academic integrity policy." Whether the Code's Advisor right extends to an Academic Grievance Board hearing is accordingly not stated. Sources: Policy 1-02 and the Student Code of Conduct (retrieved Sep 30, 2026).
What follows on the record: No transcript notation is named for a completed case, but an in-progress one is: "If academic dishonesty is suspected at or after the end of the semester, the faculty will not enter a grade for that student and an 'X' grade will be entered on the transcript," pending resolution. On retention, the Student Code of Conduct states: "The University shall retain academic integrity violations and all other discipline records for seven years after incident," maintained "separately from the student's official academic records." No disclosure provision (to a graduate program, employer, or licensing board) is stated in either source. Sources: Policy 1-02, Section 4.3.1, and the Student Code of Conduct, Records Retention (retrieved Sep 30, 2026).

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

Policy 1-02 (endorsed Apr 11, 2024; issued May 31, 2024; retrieved Sep 30, 2026) sets out four resolution levels:

"Level I: Informal confidential resolution between the faculty member and student with no report made that may include a written agreement the student has failed the course." "Level II: Informal resolution with a filed report between the faculty member and student that may include a written agreement the student has failed the course. The faculty member will file this information on a designated form with the Office of the Provost." "Level III: The matter will be heard by an Academic Grievance Board and will make a recommendation as to responsibility for the charges and may suggest sanctions to the Provost." "Level III resolution is required when:" "The student does not accept the charges presented by the faculty member as part of Level I or II"; or "The faculty member believes that a penalty greater than failing the course is appropriate." "Level IV: The Provost (or their designee) will make the final determination on all charges or penalties not resolved informally," including any case where "the student has a previous violation of the Academic Integrity Policy on file." "The Provost (or their designee) will issue a final written determination on whether a Level III policy violation has occurred and if the student(s) is found to be responsible, the Provost will issue sanctions for violations."

Source: Policy 1-02: Academic Integrity Policy (PDF). Policy 1-02 does not itself state an evidentiary standard, a right to an advisor, whether a Level III hearing is recorded, or an appeal path from a Level III or Level IV determination. The Student Code of Conduct publishes a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, an Advisor right, hearing-recording rules, and a five-day, one-level appeal process for violations "of this Code" — but the same Code routes academic-misconduct allegations to Policy 1-02's own "specific procedures" instead, so those Code-wide provisions are not shown to reach an Academic Grievance Board case; the two are reproduced here as a scope divergence, not resolved. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

03Source map

Where the documents live

Document	Location
Policy 1-02: Academic Integrity Policy (landing page)	commonwealthu.edu — Policy 1-02
Policy 1-02: Academic Integrity Policy (PDF, quoted)	commonwealthu.edu/documents/cu-policy-1-02-academic-integrity-policy
Student Code of Conduct (PDF)	commonwealthu.edu/documents/student-code-of-conduct
Office of Student Conduct (general conduct code office; Title IX)	commonwealthu.edu — Student Conduct
How do I add Turnitin to an Assignment (Helpdesk KB 18443)	helpdesk.commonwealthu.edu — Turnitin KB
Dean of Students (checked for an advocacy role; not used — see change log)	commonwealthu.edu — Dean of Students
Breiner School of Nursing BSN Student Handbook (program-specific AI policy, PDF)	commonwealthu.edu/documents/bsn-student-handbook

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.

04Change log

Revision history of this page

2026-09-30 — Page created. Cold build; no prior CANDIDATES.md or procedure-facts.json research to reuse. SECOND PASSHE (Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education) BUILD, answering the standing question left by the first (West Chester University, built 2026-09-17, entry 125): no system-level PASSHE detection position was found there either — WCU's Turnitin AI Writing Detection guidance was issued by WCU's own Teaching and Learning Center and IS&T, campus-specific — and Commonwealth University's own pages confirm the pattern holds here too: no AI-text detector of any kind is named on commonwealthu.edu, so there was no PASSHE-wide position to find. Each PASSHE campus still needs its own check. 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 (Academic Integrity Policy, Student Code of Conduct, helpdesk learning-technology KB, a University news article on the Instructional Design and Technology program's AI curriculum, and the Breiner School of Nursing handbook) found only Turnitin, confirmed for similarity/plagiarism checking. NOT DISQUALIFIED: empty inventory rather than a disabling or a recommendation against use. A candidate lead was checked and set aside: Commonwealth University's Academic Grievance Procedure (PRP 3592) sounds relevant by name but, per Commonwealth's own Grade Appeal Policy documentation superseding part of it, governs student-initiated grade grievances against a faculty member's decision, not an Academic Integrity Level III hearing where the student is the one charged — a different process, not used here to avoid the scope-conflation this project's notes warn against. SCOPE DIVERGENCE, reproduced rather than resolved: Policy 1-02 states no evidentiary standard, advisor right, hearing-recording rule, or appeal path for its own Level III/Level IV determinations; the Student Code of Conduct publishes all four ("preponderance of the evidence"; an Advisor who "may accompany the party... to any hearing or meeting"; hearings "recorded" before a hearing board; a five-business-day, one-level appeal), but for violations "of this Code," while the same Code's own Prohibited Conduct section routes academic-misconduct allegations to Policy 1-02's separate "specific procedures" instead — so those Code-wide protections are not shown to reach an Academic Grievance Board case. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY CHECKED AND NONE FOUND: no ombudsperson page serving students was located (an internal University newsletter lists an "ombudsperson" only among roles requiring Clery Act Campus Security Authority training, not as a public-facing student service); the Dean of Students office (University-wide contact: George Rusczyk, 570-389-4734) describes itself as assisting with "prolonged absence, impacts of medical or personal emergencies, resource insecurities, mental health or behavioral concerns," and similar situations, naming no academic-integrity role and not describing itself as confidential, neutral, independent, or impartial — same finding and same non-substitution as West Chester's Student Advocacy & Resources office, so "None located" is used here too rather than presenting a general support office as an advocate. Office contact for academic integrity specifically is Policy 1-02's own Responsible Office, the Office of the Provost (Attn: Vice Provost, 570-389-3803, viceprovost@commonwealthu.edu); no street address is published for it in this source, and it is kept distinct from the Office of Student Conduct (Jennifer Raup, Executive Director for Title IX and Student Conduct, 570-389-4808), which administers the separate, general Student Code of Conduct. None of the fetched HTML pages displays an on-page revision date; each is dated by retrieval only. The Student Code of Conduct PDF carries its own revision-history table, most recently "Summer 2026." Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-30).

2026-10-06 — Internet Archive captures requested on 2026-09-30 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: How do I add Turnitin to an Assignment — CommonwealthU Helpdesk → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104359/https://helpdesk.commonwealthu.edu/TDClient/66/Portal/KB/Article/18443/How-do-I-add-Turnitin-to-an-Assignment; commonwealthu.edu — Policy 1-02 → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104431/https://www.commonwealthu.edu/about/university-senate-governance/policies-and-procedures/policy-1-02-academic-integrity-policy; Breiner School of Nursing BSN Student Handbook → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104502/https://www.commonwealthu.edu/documents/bsn-student-handbook; Policy 1-02: Academic Integrity Policy → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104602/https://www.commonwealthu.edu/documents/cu-policy-1-02-academic-integrity-policy; Student Code of Conduct → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104721/https://www.commonwealthu.edu/documents/student-code-of-conduct; commonwealthu.edu — Dean of Students → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104738/https://www.commonwealthu.edu/offices-directory/dean-students; commonwealthu.edu — Student Conduct → https://web.archive.org/web/20260930104813/https://www.commonwealthu.edu/offices-directory/student-conduct.

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