Minnesota State University, Mankato.

What Mankato's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

The student "has the right to bring an advisor to the meeting as a source of support or advice, but the advisor may not ask or answer questions on the student's behalf." Recording is not addressed in the Academic Integrity policy or procedure. — Academic Integrity Procedure (effective Aug 1, 2026; retrieved Sep 21, 2026) · Academic Integrity — University Policy and Procedure

What follows on the record

Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Academic Integrity policy and procedure name no transcript notation, retention period or disclosure rule; Mankato's Registration and Academic Records pages describe transcript contents generally but do not address academic-integrity notations. Separately, the Student Conduct Rights and Responsibilities page (a general conduct page, not academic-integrity-specific) states disciplinary files are FERPA-protected "education records" that "cannot be released to a third party, including parents, without the student's signed release of information or a court issued subpoena," subject to a University-official "need to know" exception (retrieved Sep 21, 2026) · Rights and Responsibilities in the Student Conduct Process

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

Mankato's Academic Integrity policy and procedure (Date of Last Review September 2025; Effective Date of Last Review Aug 1, 2026; retrieved Sep 21, 2026) supply the rest of the process. No standard of proof (such as preponderance of the evidence) is named anywhere in the policy or procedure; appeals instead turn on named grounds:

The procedure runs in four possible steps: an informal resolution meeting with the instructor (who may assign additional education, required revision, a reduced or failing grade on the assignment or exam, a failing grade for the course, or refer the student to the department for consideration of dismissal from the program); a formal appeal to the department chairperson; a further appeal to the academic dean or designee; and a final appeal to the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, "final" and not further appealable. An instructor who determines a violation occurred sends the decision to the Office of Student Conduct (StudentConduct@mnsu.edu). Source: Academic Integrity — University Policy and Procedure. What these quotations mean for any particular case is for the institution and its process to determine; they are reproduced so you can read the originals in context.

Revision history of this page

2026-09-21 — Page created by an automated build pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. First-party material captured this date from admin.mnsu.edu (Academic Integrity policy and procedure, effective Aug 1, 2026, last reviewed September 2025), mnsu.edu (Student Conduct: Academic Dishonesty; Student Conduct landing and contact pages; Student Conduct Rights and Responsibilities), services.mnsu.edu (About Turnitin; About Respondus; Using Generative AI at Minnesota State, last modified Jul 16, 2026), and minnstate.edu (Generative Artificial Intelligence: Policy Intersections, Considerations, and Recommendations, systemwide, undated on its face). Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin/SimCheck/Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and category sweep (IT services catalogue, library AI guides, CETL, Academic Integrity policy) both came back empty of any institutionally deployed AI-text detector; the system guidance document names Turnitin, Copyleaks, GPTZero and Originality AI only as generic industry examples in a caution against relying on any of them as a singular indicator, and is quoted with that provenance rather than as a statement that Mankato has licensed one of them. FIRST MINNESOTA STATE BUILD: the systemwide position recorded above (no confirmed systemwide detector deployment; a caution against sole reliance, not a recommendation against use or a disabling) is available for later Minnesota State campus builds in this collection to check against their own first-party pages rather than re-deriving it from scratch. Deliberate omission: the Minnesota State system's "Authorized and Recommended AI Services" and "Disabled AI Services" lists (Adobe Firefly, Microsoft Copilot and related productivity tools; Read.AI, Otter.AI, Fireflies.AI blocked Jul 3, 2025) concern general-purpose generative-AI tools, not AI-text detectors, and are not carried onto this page as a detection-inventory finding either way. No ombuds or student-advocacy office was located on mnsu.edu; the search covered "ombud," "ombudsperson," and "student advocacy" and found none — only the Office of Student Conduct's own general due-process rights, which are not a separate advocacy office. Transcript notation, record retention and disclosure for an academic-integrity finding specifically are not stated in the Academic Integrity policy or procedure or on the Registration and Academic Records pages; recorded as an absence rather than inferred from the general FERPA confidentiality statement on the Student Conduct Rights and Responsibilities page, which concerns the separate, non-academic conduct process. Recording of the informal-resolution meeting or any appeal step is not addressed anywhere in the sources reviewed. Subreddit/forum demand scan not run (outside this pass's research method; entry was QUEUED, not GATED). Internet Archive captures pending — to be requested by a later capture pass. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-21).

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