Nevada State University.

What the Student Code of Conduct (SA 5.2) says about how academic-misconduct cases proceed

Who may be present

For the academic-misconduct formal hearing, "[i]f the student wishes to bring an advisor, they must notify the dean (or designee) by email at least 48 hours before the hearing." The hearing itself is recorded: "To the extent consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. section 1232g, the hearing, except for the hearing board's closed deliberations, is recorded. Upon the charged student's request, a written transcript will be provided at the student's expense." — Student Code of Conduct, SA 5.2 · SA 5.2 (PDF)

What follows on the record

A suspension is marked on the student's "official transcript" as "DISCIPLINARY SUSPENSION EFFECTIVE ____TO ___," removable on request "after two academic years have passed since the suspension expired," under stated conditions. Expulsion is marked "DISCIPLINARY EXPULSION EFFECTIVE ____," removable on request after four years. Records retention for disciplinary action records follows "the NSHE Procedures and Guidelines Manual Chapter 15" (not itself reproduced here). — Student Code of Conduct, SA 5.2 · SA 5.2 (PDF)

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

SA 5.2 runs academic misconduct through an informal step first: a faculty-level meeting and proposed sanction, reviewed by the Dean's Office, which "sends official notification of the sanctions, if any, to the student and instructor by NS email within 3 working days." If the student does not accept the outcome, "[t]he student must email the dean (or designee) to request a hearing within 3 working days," and the hearing is scheduled "no sooner than 5 working days, and no later than 10 working days" afterward, before a three-member hearing board (one student, two faculty) appointed from outside the student's own school "[t]o ensure impartiality." Possible academic sanctions range from a warning or reduced grade through a course grade of "F" or removal from the course; disciplinary sanctions (suspension, expulsion, and others set out in the Code's general conduct chapter) may be added. An academic-misconduct hearing decision may be appealed "by submitting the appeal form within 5 working days of the date the dean (or designee) emailed the decision," on stated grounds, to the Provost (or designee); "[s]anctions do not take effect while an appeal is under review." NOTABLE GAP, STATED RATHER THAN ASSUMED: the academic-misconduct hearing procedure (Section 5.7.2) does not itself name an evidentiary standard anywhere in its text. "[P]reponderance of the evidence" appears exactly once in the Code, in the separate general Student Conduct Board process (Section 7) that governs non-academic misconduct, where "[t]he Student Conduct Officer bears the burden of proof." Whether that standard also governs an academic-misconduct hearing board is not stated in the sources reviewed. Source: Student Code of Conduct Policy, SA 5.2 (PDF). 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

2026-10-13 — Page created. Cold build (no prior CANDIDATES.md/procedure-facts research). All quotations retrieved this date. Student Code of Conduct Policy SA 5.2 carries its own "EFFECTIVE 6/9/2026" and its history notes it is a "[r]evision and integration of SA 5.1 Student Code of Conduct Policy and SA 6 Academic Standards Policy"; the AI resources page shows no on-page date beyond a 2026 site-wide footer copyright. Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin and its AI writing indicator specifically, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) found none named on nevadastate.edu, including a full-text search of the 1,468-line extracted SA 5.2 PDF, which contains no occurrence of any detector name. A category sweep of the AI resources page and the Code's own AI-misconduct provisions (5.2, 5.3.E) found the same: both define AI misconduct purely as noncompliance with instructor-set syllabus rules, with no detection method named. This is a genuine absence narrower than most pages in this collection: no Turnitin, SafeAssign, or similar similarity-checking tool was located anywhere on nevadastate.edu in the searches performed this pass, not merely an AI-specific feature. PROCESS captured from SA 5.2 in full (1,468 extracted lines): the two-stage academic-misconduct process (informal faculty resolution reviewed by the Dean's Office, then a formal three-member hearing board on student request), advisor notice requirement, FERPA-qualified hearing recording with a student-requestable transcript, academic sanctions list, and the formal-process appeal route to the Provost. NOTABLE GAP RECORDED: the academic-misconduct hearing procedure (5.7.2) names no evidentiary standard; "preponderance of the evidence" appears exactly once in the full document, inside the separate general Student Conduct Board process (Section 7) governing non-academic misconduct. Whether that standard extends to academic-misconduct hearings is not stated anywhere in the text read this pass, and this page does not infer that it does. Transcript notation and retention quoted directly from the Code's sanctions (12: Suspension, 13: Expulsion) and Records Retention (Section 3.12) provisions. Ombuds/advocacy search ("ombudsperson," "student advocacy") found no dedicated office; the Nevada State Student Alliance is student government and describes its own role as advocacy for students generally, not an institution-administered neutral or confidential office, so it is not presented as an ombuds or advocacy office here. Office contact: the policy's own header contact block names only "Office of Student Conduct" and an email (studentconduct@nevadastate.edu); no phone or location is published in that block, and none is substituted from elsewhere. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-14).

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