Post University.

What the catalog says about how a case proceeds

Who may be present

Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Academic Integrity Policy states only that "the appropriate University personnel may request additional information from the student and/or other individuals involved in the Suspected Violation"; it names no support person, adviser, or observer, and does not address whether any review meeting or call may be recorded — searched in the full Academic Integrity Policy and Generative AI Use Policy text.

What follows on the record

Post states that a decision "will be communicated to the student and documented in the Academic Integrity Database." An Infraction 2 carries "the grade of an F in the course," with the student "removed by the Registrar from the course"; an Infraction 3 results in academic dismissal with no eligibility to reapply. Not stated in the sources reviewed: how long a record in the Academic Integrity Database is retained, whether an infraction is separately notated on the transcript beyond its grade effect, or whether it is disclosed to a graduate program, employer, or licensing board.

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

Post's Academic Integrity Policy groups infractions into five categories — cheating, plagiarizing, masking, falsifying information, and unauthorized use of course materials — and treats "Generative Artificial Intelligence" work presented as one's own as a form of plagiarism. A Suspected Violation is reviewed by "the appropriate University personnel, as the situation dictates," with the University retaining "the right to review work by the student from previous assignments, exams and/or courses." No evidentiary standard — such as "preponderance" — is named anywhere in the policy.

Confirmed sanctions escalate through named tiers: an Integrity Warning ("a zero on the assignment with the opportunity to resubmit"), Infraction 1 ("a zero on the assignment or assessment with no opportunity to resubmit"), Infraction 2 (course "F" and removal from the course by the Registrar), and Infraction 3 ("academically dismissed from Post University," ineligible for financial reimbursement or readmission). The policy states infractions are "typically" assigned consecutively but reserves the right to assign "a different infraction or a different penalty," including an immediate Infraction 3 "regardless of whether the student has previously received an Infraction 1 and/or an Infraction 2."

Two distinct appeal paths are published for two distinct outcomes. An Integrity Warning, Infraction 1, or Infraction 2 is appealed through the general Grade Appeal Process: student to instructor, then "the Program Chair or Dean (whoever oversees the instructor)," with a Dean's decision at that step being final; each step is to be completed "within seven (7) business days." An Infraction 3 (academic dismissal) instead follows the University's four-step Student Complaints process: an informal conversation, then the relevant Director or Dean, then a written decision from the Assistant Provost (academic matters) or Senior Vice President within five business days, and finally an independent review by the Chief Regulatory Officer and General Counsel, "the final internal step," within seven business days.

Sources: 2026–2027 University Catalog — Academic Policies and Procedures · Student Complaints. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-09-08 — Page created. First-party material captured this date from Post's dynamic online catalog (catalog.post.edu, 2026–2027 University Catalog), Academic Policies and Procedures section, read live in a browser because the catalog renders client-side and paginates by anchor within a single content page and returns HTTP 202 with an empty body to a plain fetch; the Academic Integrity Policy, Generative AI Use Policy, Grade Appeal Process, and Proctored Examinations sections were all captured from that one page and preserved at tools/supplied/post-source1.txt, and the catalog home page's non-contractual disclaimer was preserved the same way at tools/supplied/post-source5.txt (recipe sources 1 and 5; both require a browser read, not an automatable transport, so a later capture pass must resupply them). The Student Complaints page and Center for Academic Success contact page were also read live. Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) found none deployed for text detection; ProctorU is confirmed but named only for the American Sentinel College of Nursing & Health Sciences and is behavioral exam proctoring, not text-writing detection. Category sweep of the full Academic Policies and Procedures section, Writing Center, and library/IT pages found no additional tool and no statement recommending against or disabling one. Not disqualified: the inventory is silent, not adverse — unlike Illinois State, Grand Valley, or Rowan, no Post page states in its own voice that a detector is absent by policy or unreliable; it simply never comes up. Deliberate omission: the general (non-academic) Code of Conduct Policy was read and found to add no academic-integrity-specific detail, so it is listed in the source map but not quoted from. Ombuds/advocacy sweep (ombuds, ombudsperson, student advocacy, dean of students advocacy) found none. Office contact: no dedicated conduct or integrity office is named anywhere in the policy; the Center for Academic Success is the contact the Academic Integrity Policy itself directs students to for policy questions, recorded as such rather than presented as the office that adjudicates violations. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-08).

2026-09-13 — Editorial review. Carrie Schluter read this page in full against its recorded first-party sources and found no change required. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-13).

2026-09-14 — Internet Archive capture pass; captures requested and confirmed by tools/spn.py, not a human review and not a re-verification of any quotation. Stored and played back this date: the catalog home page (catalog.post.edu), the student-complaints page, and the Center for Academic Success contact page. The catalog's Academic Policies and Procedures section (catalog.post.edu/content.php?catoid=93&navoid=5596) was not stored: it returns HTTP 202 with an empty body to an automated request, the same behaviour the 2026-09-08 build recorded when it had to read that section live in a browser. It rests seven days before it is eligible again, and it is the source most likely to need a hand-supplied capture rather than a Save Page Now request.

2026-09-17 — Internet Archive captures requested this date by an automated capture pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. Captures added: Content — catalog.post.edu → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917151624/https://catalog.post.edu/content.php?catoid=93&navoid=5596; Student Complaints | Post University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917151742/https://post.edu/about/student-satisfaction-and-performance/student-complaints/; Center for Academic Success | Post University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917151831/https://post.edu/student-services/center-for-academic-success/; Post University Resources - Code of Conduct Policy → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917151950/https://post.edu/student-services/student-affairs/code-of-conduct/; Post University — Catalog Home (2026-2027 University Catalog) → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152112/https://catalog.post.edu/.

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