Northern Kentucky University.

What NKU's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

An Advisor is defined, without an Academic Dishonesty carve-out, as "a Student-identified individual that acts a support person at any NKU student conduct process meeting or hearing," who "may only consult and interact privately with their Student" and "will not be allowed to address University Officials" or others present. A companion FAQ page adds that "[t]he Respondent may have one (1) person with them during the hearing process to serve as a process advisor," who "may not represent or speak for the student." Recording is addressed for formal hearings generally — a hearing body will "create and retain a written summary or audio recording of the hearing (at University expense)" — though the Honor Code's own escalating-appeal steps (department chair, dean, Academic Appeals Panel) are not separately restated as recorded. Sources: Community Standards & Student Rights (the Code) and Attorney or Non-Attorney Advisor Resources (Code most recently amended Jan 13, 2023; retrieved Sep 30, 2026).

What follows on the record

No transcript notation is named. Retention is stated generally: "Student Conduct files are retained in the office of Community Standards and Care for seven (7) years after the Student graduates or is no longer enrolled," except that "[s]tudent conduct decisions resulting in sanctions of University Suspension/Expulsion will be retained permanently." A student may request destruction of non-Clery, non-suspension/expulsion records "after a Student's degree is conferred." No disclosure provision (to a graduate program, employer, or licensing board) is stated. Source: the Code, Records and Retention (retrieved Sep 30, 2026).

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

NKU's Community Standards & Student Rights Code embeds an "Undergraduate Student Honor Code" as one of its own sections (most recently amended Jan 13, 2023; retrieved Sep 30, 2026), which states the standard used to decide any charge under the Code:

Source: Community Standards & Student Rights (the Code), Sections E (Undergraduate Student Honor Code) and general provisions on standard of proof. A separate, shorter summary of the same sanctions appears on NKU's Academic Honesty Policy page. The Code's own text still names the office "Office of Student Conduct, Rights and Advocacy" throughout; the office's current public-facing pages present it as "Office of Student Conduct," which is the name used in this docket. What these quotations mean for any particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-09-30 — Page created. Cold build; no prior CANDIDATES.md or procedure-facts.json research to reuse. Named-vendor sweep (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 (Academic Honesty Policy, AI Usage Guidelines, Turnitin for Faculty, the Community Standards & Student Rights Code, and the Dean of Students' Academic Integrity and Student Rights pages) found only Turnitin, confirmed for originality/plagiarism checking. NOT DISQUALIFIED: empty inventory, not a disabling or a recommendation against use. All inside.nku.edu URLs found by search redirected (HTTP 301) to their current www.nku.edu addresses; fetched and quoted at the resolved address in each case. PROCESS SOURCE PREFERRED: the "Academic Honesty Policy" summary page and the full Code's own "Undergraduate Student Honor Code" section say the same thing in the same words for the violations list and first/multiple-violation sanctions, but only the Code carries the escalating appeal chain (chair, dean, Academic Appeals Panel, Provost, Board of Regents) and the general standard-of-proof, advisor, recording, and records-retention provisions, so the Code is the page's primary citation and the summary page is linked as a secondary, shorter restatement. SCOPE CHECKED, UNLIKE A PRIOR PASSHE BUILD THIS SESSION: NKU's Honor Code is Section E of the same Community Standards & Student Rights Code (not a separate policy the Code routes away to), and the Code's own Advisor definition applies by its own terms to "any NKU student conduct process meeting or hearing" with no Academic-Dishonesty carve-out, so the general Advisor and Preponderance-standard provisions are used here as applicable to the Honor Code process, unlike the scope divergence recorded on Commonwealth University's page the same day. Recording is presented more cautiously: the general hearing-recording provision is not separately restated inside the Honor Code section's own escalating-appeal text, so it is described as applicable to formal hearings generally rather than confirmed for each appeal step by name. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY CHECKED: no office titled "ombudsperson" was located; NKU does have a department literally named "Student Advocacy" (within the Dean of Students), but its own page scopes it to hardship support (family emergency, illness) and names no academic-integrity role and no confidentiality or independence claim, so it is presented plainly rather than characterized as an ombuds. NAME DIVERGENCE noted, not resolved: the Code's own text names the responsible office "Office of Student Conduct, Rights and Advocacy" throughout, while the office's current public-facing page presents it as "Office of Student Conduct" with its own separate contact block; the docket uses the current page's contact and name, and the Code's fuller name is recorded in section 02. None of the fetched HTML pages displays an on-page revision date; the Code carries its own amendment history ("Amended: 11/21/2012; 9/8/2021; 6/15/2022; 1/13/2023"), so it is dated by its most recent amendment rather than by retrieval alone. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-30).

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