Marshall University.

What Marshall's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Academic Dishonesty policy (UPAA-1) and its identical rendering in the undergraduate catalog describe notification, reporting and sanction timelines but do not address whether a student may bring a support person, advisor or attorney to any stage, or whether a meeting may be recorded. The appeals process is governed by a separate policy, UPAA-33 (Academic Appeals Policy), which Marshall's policy site serves only as a scanned image file with no extractable text in this pass; its accompaniment and recording provisions, if any, could not be captured and are not quoted here.

What follows on the record

"A student's record of academic dishonesty charges will be maintained throughout their enrollment at Marshall University." A first offense can be resolved differently: "The first offense will be expunged from the student's record upon successful completion of the Academic integrity seminar, but a record of this offense will remain with Academic Affairs." The policy adds that confirmed-sanction summaries, without names, go to "the Academic Deans and the Faculty Senate at the end of each academic year." No transcript-notation rule or disclosure to a party outside the University (an employer, a licensing board) is stated anywhere reviewed; not stated in the sources reviewed.

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

Marshall's Academic Dishonesty policy (UPAA-1), rendered in full on the Office of Academic Affairs' own page and duplicated in the undergraduate catalog, states (effective date per the policy's own closing line below; retrieved Oct 8, 2026):

Source: Policies & Resources — Office of Academic Affairs, rendering University Policy UPAA-1. No evidentiary standard (such as a preponderance-of-the-evidence rule) is stated anywhere in this policy text. Graduate students face a different repeat-offense rule stated on the same page: "The second confirmed offense will result in an automatic expulsion from Marshall University." 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

2026-10-08 — Page created in an unattended scheduled build pass; not a human review. All quotations retrieved this date from the pages linked beside them; the Academic Dishonesty policy's own closing line dates its last revision to June 1, 2026 by the Board of Governors, and no other source displays its own on-page date. A named-vendor sweep (Turnitin and its 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 Design Center's Blackboard/proctoring pages, the CTL's AI resource hub, the Office of Academic Affairs' policy pages, the undergraduate catalog) found no AI-text detector deployed — SafeAssign is documented only for plagiarism/originality checking against an institutional repository and the internet. A student-thesis repository (Marshall Digital Scholar) surfaced individual students' own papers discussing AI detection as a research topic; these are not institutional statements and were not used as evidence of what Marshall itself deploys. Two source PDFs could not be captured. The two policy PDFs hosted at marshall.edu/policies for UPAA-1 (Academic Dishonesty) and UPAA-33 (Academic Appeals Policy) are both scanned image files (produced by a Canon iR-ADV copier) with no extractable text layer — pdftotext and pdffonts both return nothing, and OCR is outside this repository's documented capture tooling, which this pass does not modify. UPAA-1's full text was recoverable from the Office of Academic Affairs' own HTML "Policies & Resources" page, which states the same content natively and is dated to the same June 1, 2026 Board of Governors revision; that page is used as the primary source instead of the scanned PDF, and the PDF link is not in the recipe. UPAA-33 has no equivalent native-HTML rendering located in this pass, so its accompaniment, recording, and any evidentiary-standard provisions are not quoted on this page and are recorded as not stated rather than assumed; a future pass with OCR capability, or a text-native copy of UPAA-33, should resolve this. Office finding. The Office of Academic Affairs administers the central academic-dishonesty record and reporting process named throughout UPAA-1; the Office of Student Advocacy & Accountability (within the Division of Student Affairs) is named separately in the policy as the point of appeal guidance and runs the Academic Integrity Seminar, but is not the office with Central Repository-style custody of the record. Ombuds finding. Marshall's Office of the Ombuds meets this site's independence/confidentiality bar on its own description and explicitly serves students (not faculty/staff only), and is fully operational, unlike some peer institutions' ombuds offices found closed or non-student-facing. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-08).

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