Morgan State University.

What Morgan's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

Not stated in the sources reviewed for the academic-dishonesty process itself — the catalog's Policy on Academic Dishonesty and Academic Appeal Process say nothing about an accompanying person or recording. Morgan's separate Code of Student Conduct, which states on its own page that it "does not govern misconduct involving academic dishonesty," gives students in the proceedings it does govern a right that this process does not mention: "Students may be accompanied by an advisor (who can be legal counsel, a faculty member, or another support person) during conduct proceedings. The advisor's role is limited to student consultation." (Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities, retrieved Oct 8, 2026.) Recording is not addressed in either source.

What follows on the record

Not stated in the sources reviewed. The catalog's Policy on Academic Dishonesty lists the available penalties — failure of the assignment or course, written reprimand, suspension of up to two years, expulsion, or revocation of a degree — without stating whether a transcript notation is applied, how long a disciplinary record is kept, or whether it is disclosed to a graduate program, an employer, or a licensing board (2026–2028 Undergraduate Catalog — Academic Policies, retrieved Oct 8, 2026).

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

On how a case moves from accusation to a decision, the catalog's Academic Appeal Process states (2026–2028 Undergraduate Catalog — Academic Policies; no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 8, 2026):

The same catalog section states the sanctions a finding can carry: "Any student who is found to have engaged in academic dishonesty at Morgan State University shall fail the test or assignment for which the student cheated and may be subjected to one or more of the following penalties including failure of the course in which the academic dishonesty occurred; written reprimand from the Chairperson, the Dean, and/or the Vice President for Academic Affairs; suspension and/or expulsion from the University." Suspension "can be imposed for a specified period, not to exceed two years"; expulsion "is a permanent separation from the University." No evidentiary standard, such as a preponderance-of-the-evidence rule, is stated anywhere in this policy. Source: 2026–2028 Undergraduate Catalog — Academic Policies. For graduate students, the School of Graduate Studies' own Handbook states a parallel but separately administered penalty range for a thesis, dissertation or doctoral capstone: "Any graduate student at Morgan State University who is found to have engaged in academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, in the preparation of written assignments, a dissertation, or a thesis, may be subjected to suspension, expulsion, and/or revocation of a previously awarded degree." Source: SGS Handbook & Style Guide, Sixth Edition 2026. 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; none displays its own on-page revision date except the Board of Regents' 1996-approved policy PDF and the School of Graduate Studies' Handbook, labelled Sixth Edition 2026. 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 (Academic Technology Services, the undergraduate and graduate catalogs, the Board of Regents policy, the Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities, and the library's citation/plagiarism/AI guides) found no AI-writing detector documented as deployed against general coursework. The one documented automated screening tool, Copyleaks, is scoped to the School of Graduate Studies' thesis/dissertation/doctoral-capstone submission review and is described by its own Handbook only as checking for plagiarism and improper paraphrasing, not as an AI-writing detector; that distinction is preserved on the page rather than elided. The library's separate Artificial Intelligence guide lists four third-party AI checkers as resources a reader can try; listing is not deployment, and the page says so. Office finding. Morgan has no single academic-integrity office: the catalog's Policy on Academic Dishonesty and Academic Appeal Process route a case through the instructor, department Chairperson and Dean, with final appeal to the Provost/VPAA (Division of Academic Affairs); the Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities administers the separate Code of Student Conduct, which states on its own page that it does not govern academic dishonesty, and its "Report An Incident" page directs academic-dishonesty reports to "the corresponding Academic Department" rather than to itself. Accompaniment and recording. Not stated in the sources reviewed for the academic-dishonesty process itself; the Code of Student Conduct's right-to-an-advisor provision is quoted and labelled as applying to the separate process it governs, not to academic dishonesty. Record question. Not stated in the sources reviewed — the catalog states the sanctions available but not transcript notation, retention, or disclosure. Ombuds/advocacy sweep. Searched for "ombuds," "ombudsperson," "student advocacy," and "dean of students advocacy" on morgan.edu; no eligible office was located — a faculty member's research specialty and an external U.S. Department of Education ombudsman link are the only on-domain matches, neither a Morgan student-facing office. Deliberately not used: the 2019-dated "ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Guidelines ver 1.3" PDF, which could not be retrieved as a readable document in this pass and predates the current catalog policy it would otherwise duplicate or conflict with; a civil-engineering department page paraphrasing the catalog policy in its own words; and the thesis/dissertation handbook's research-misconduct chapter (a federal-funding process distinct from student academic dishonesty). Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-08).

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