Fort Hays State University.

Detection status: No AI-writing detector, or any plagiarism-detection tool, is named on FHSU's AI resource hubs, the University Libraries' Generative AI research guide, or the Academic Honesty Policy across a named-vendor and category sweep
Office in these sources: Judicial Affairs · Sheridan Hall 208, 600 Park Street, Hays, KS 67601 · 785-628-4276 · lelarrick@fhsu.edu
Ombuds or advocacy office: University Compliance Office / Ombudsman — self-described as "a confidential place for the campus community to go for resources," open to the campus community generally rather than scoped to students, and not described as independent. The same named staff contact (Laurie Larrick) is also Judicial Affairs' own point of contact for academic-misconduct reports, a conflict recorded here rather than resolved. No academic-integrity scope is stated for either role. · fhsu.edu — University Compliance Office
Sources last checked: Sep 28, 2026

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

Fort Hays State University's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — FHSU's own guidance encourages "disciplinary or class-specific definitions in course syllabi," so course rules may add to what is described here. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01Detection status

No AI-writing detector is named as deployed at Fort Hays State

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 (the AI Initiatives hub, its student- and faculty-facing resource pages, the University Libraries' Generative Artificial Intelligence research guide, and the Academic Honesty Policy) found no first-party statement that any AI-text detector, or any plagiarism-checking tool, is deployed at FHSU. The AI Resources for Students page (retrieved Sep 28, 2026) names only generative tools the University provides access to — Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini — and citation guidance; it names no detection product. The AI Resources for Faculty & Staff page (retrieved Sep 28, 2026) is the same in kind, adding Grammarly for Education among the tools made available, again with no detection product named. Neither page discusses AI-writing detection or its reliability.

Source: AI Resources for Students and AI Resources for Faculty & Staff. The University Libraries' own Generative Artificial Intelligence research guide (retrieved Sep 28, 2026) likewise names no detection tool among its listed resources. Source: Resources — Generative Artificial Intelligence (FHSU Libraries). The Academic Honesty Policy (approved by the President Jun 16, 1999, per its own handbook index entry; retrieved Sep 28, 2026) defines plagiarism and cheating in conduct terms only, without naming any detection tool of any kind, AI or otherwise.

ONE FIRST-PARTY PAGE COULD NOT BE READ THIS PASS: FHSU's own Office of Learning Technologies publishes a page titled Academic Integrity at fhsu.edu/learningtechnologies/academic-integrity/ that a web search surfaced as discussing AI-detection tools by name, but the page returned an HTTP 403 (Forbidden) to every transport tried, and no Internet Archive snapshot of it exists. It is not used as a source anywhere on this page, and nothing here should be read as confirming or ruling out what it says.

02Published procedure

What FHSU's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present: Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Academic Honesty Policy describes a faculty member deciding whether a violation occurred and informing the student directly, and an administrative hearing panel at the formal-appeal stage — but names no right to an advisor, advocate, or attorney at any stage, and does not address recording.
What follows on the record: Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Academic Honesty Policy lists academic sanctions (warning, grade reduction, failure) and administrative sanctions (suspension, dismissal) but names no transcript notation, no record-retention schedule, and no disclosure provision for an academic-honesty finding.

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

From the Academic Honesty Policy (Judicial Affairs; retrieved Sep 28, 2026):

"It is the policy of FHSU to impose sanctions on students who misrepresent their academic work. Appropriate classroom instructors will select these sanctions or other designated persons consistent with the seriousness of the violation and related considerations." "The faculty member decides whether a violation of the Academic Honesty Policy has occurred. The faculty member informs the student and the department chair that an alleged violation of the Academic Honesty Policy has occurred." "The university guarantees students the provision of due process. Students are first expected, however, to avail themselves of the university's established tradition of informal appeal. Steps 1-4 describe the informal process and Steps 5-7 describe the procedures designed to implement a formal appeal at the graduate/undergraduate levels." "If, after the informal appeal, the student still disagrees with the faculty member's allegation or recommended sanction, the student may appeal in writing to the academic department no later than the end of the first week of the following semester." "If the student is an undergraduate or special student and disagrees with the allegation or recommended sanction, the student may appeal in writing to the Provost no later than 15 working days following the decision. […] The administrative hearing panel will consist of an academic administrator, assistant vice president for student affairs (assigned to work with student judicial affairs), four faculty members and a student."

No evidentiary standard (such as preponderance of the evidence) is named anywhere in the policy — searched directly and not found, stated here as a finding rather than assumed by analogy to other schools. Source: Academic Misconduct — Judicial Affairs, which carries the full Academic Honesty Policy and Procedures text; the Faculty & Unclassified Professional Staff Handbook's own chapter entry points to this same page rather than restating the policy. 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
Academic Misconduct — Judicial Affairs (carries the full Academic Honesty Policy and Procedures)	fhsu.edu/judicial/academic-misconduct (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
Academic Honesty — Faculty & Unclassified Professional Staff Handbook, Chapter 2 (index entry; points to the Judicial Affairs page above)	fhsu.edu/academic/provost/handbook/chapter_2/academic_honesty (approved Jun 16, 1999; retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
AI Resources for Students	fhsu.edu/ai/ai-resources-students (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
AI Resources for Faculty & Staff	fhsu.edu/ai/ai-resources-facultystaff (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
Resources — Generative Artificial Intelligence (FHSU Libraries research guide)	fhsuguides.fhsu.edu/ai/resources (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
University Compliance Office / Ombudsman	fhsu.edu/president/Compliance-Office · Sheridan Hall 312 · 785-628-4175 (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)

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

2026-09-28 — Page created by a scheduled, unattended build pass. All quotations retrieved this date from fhsu.edu pages linked beside them. 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 (both AI Initiatives resource pages, the Libraries' Generative AI guide, and the Academic Honesty Policy) came back empty of any first-party statement that an AI-text detector, or any plagiarism-checking tool at all, is deployed. NOT DISQUALIFIED: empty inventory, not a documented deactivation or recommendation against. TRANSPORT FAILURE, NOT USED: fhsu.edu/learningtechnologies/academic-integrity/ returned HTTP 403 to a plain curl fetch, a browser-UA curl fetch, and a live browser session alike (confirmed a genuine block rather than a transient error); no Internet Archive snapshot exists for it (checked via the Wayback availability API). A web search's own AI-generated summary characterized that page as naming GPTZero and proctoring features with AI-driven flagging, but that characterization could not be verified first-party and is not used anywhere on this page -- the detection-status finding above rests only on pages actually read. PROCESS SOURCE: the Academic Honesty Policy and Procedures, read in full from the Judicial Affairs page (the Faculty Handbook's own chapter index entry does not restate the policy and instead points to this same page). SUBSTANTIVE ABSENCE, kept distinct rather than inferred: no evidentiary standard, no advisor/advocate/attorney right, no recording provision, no transcript notation, and no record-retention or disclosure rule is stated anywhere in the policy -- searched directly for each and not found. OFFICE: Judicial Affairs, Sheridan Hall 208, 785-628-4276, lelarrick@fhsu.edu, published on the Academic Misconduct page's own contact block. OMBUDS: the University Compliance Office states it is "a confidential place for the campus community to go for resources" and separately performs an Ombudsman role described as "a confidential sounding board for issues on campus" -- open to the "campus community" generally, not scoped to students, not described as independent, and naming no academic-integrity scope. NOTABLE OVERLAP: the Compliance Office/Ombudsman's named contact (Laurie Larrick, lelarrick@fhsu.edu) is the identical contact published for Judicial Affairs, the office that receives academic-misconduct reports -- recorded as a conflict rather than presented as an independent resource. 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: fhsu.edu/academic/provost/handbook/chapter_2/academic_honesty → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121439/http://www.fhsu.edu/academic/provost/handbook/chapter_2/academic_honesty; AI Resources for Faculty & Staff → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121531/https://www.fhsu.edu/ai/ai-resources-facultystaff; AI Resources for Students → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121603/https://www.fhsu.edu/ai/ai-resources-students; Academic Misconduct — Judicial Affairs → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121635/https://www.fhsu.edu/judicial/academic-misconduct/; fhsu.edu — University Compliance Office → https://web.archive.org/web/20260928121712/https://www.fhsu.edu/president/Compliance-Office/.

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