Rutgers University–Newark.

What RU-N's own pages and the university's Academic Integrity Policy say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

"The student is entitled to the assistance of a Campus Advisor and the presence of a support person." The Campus Advisor's role is to support, not represent: "The Campus Advisor may not represent any students, therefore may not speak during any investigative meetings and/or other disciplinary proceedings." Recording of a meeting or hearing is not addressed in the sources reviewed. — Academic Integrity, Rutgers University–Newark Student Affairs (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026)

What follows on the record

"Expulsion from the University with a permanent notation of disciplinary expulsion on the student's transcript." A separate sanction, "[d]egree or certificate revocation," is also available. Short of expulsion, the policy does not itself state a general transcript-notation rule or a conduct-record retention period; an XF grade (a failing grade with a disciplinary notation) may later be requested for removal of the "X," but not sooner than 18 months, and only after an exemplary record, a completed integrity workshop, and a satisfactory written request. — University Policy 10.2.13, Academic Integrity Policy (last reviewed June 2, 2020; retrieved Oct 12, 2026)

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

From University Policy 10.2.13, Academic Integrity Policy — university-wide, covering all Rutgers schools and campuses including Newark (last reviewed June 2, 2020; retrieved Oct 12, 2026):

Source: University Policy 10.2.13 — Academic Integrity Policy. RU-N's own Student Affairs site restates the process it runs locally (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026):

A student may appeal on one of four stated grounds — unsupported conclusion, procedural error, disproportionate sanction, or new information — and the Campus Appeals Committee decides from the written record alone, without meeting the parties. Where the sanction affirmed includes suspension, expulsion, or an XF grade, the final sanction is then set by the Chief Academic Integrity Officer; sanctions are not implemented until all appeals are exhausted. Source: Academic Integrity — RU-N Student Affairs. 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

2026-10-12 — Page created. FIRST RUTGERS BUILD in this collection. Rutgers University–New Brunswick sits Deferred (2026-08-23) on an unresolved question: search engines attribute to a New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences page (sasoue.rutgers.edu/Address the Impact of AI) a sentence stating Rutgers "does not recommend using AI detectors, and strongly recommends against submitting an academic integrity concern solely on the basis of the output of an AI detector" — a potentially disqualifying statement that could not be captured because the page renders as collapsed accordions whose body text a plain fetch does not return. That source is specific to New Brunswick's School of Arts and Sciences, a unit this Newark page has no connection to, so it was not chased here and does not bear on this page's findings; resolving it remains open work for the New Brunswick build. SCOPE DISCIPLINE, THE CENTRAL FINDING OF THIS PASS: several Rutgers sources that look campus-neutral are not. The Institute for Teaching, Innovation, & Inclusive Pedagogy (teaching.rutgers.edu), which the New Brunswick deferral treated as a usable caution source ("the usage of GenAI detectors should be treated with caution"), states on its own About page that it serves "Rutgers University-New Brunswick" specifically — not used here for that reason. Likewise, the Office of the Ombudsperson for Students (ombuds.rutgers.edu) states on its own homepage that it is "a safe space for Rutgers–New Brunswick students" — checked and excluded from the ombuds docket row for the same reason, rather than presented as available to Newark students. Two sources were confirmed genuinely university-wide and used instead: canvas.rutgers.edu (Rutgers' single central Canvas system, serving Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick alike) and Rutgers University Libraries' AI research guide (libguides.rutgers.edu, whose own navigation lists Camden/Health Sciences/Newark/New Brunswick/Archives/Law as one system). 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) found Turnitin confirmed deployed campus-wide under an enterprise license for originality checking, with no page confirming or denying its AI-writing indicator specifically; Respondus Monitor/4.0 confirmed for exam proctoring, not text detection; no Honorlock or Proctorio found. NOT A DISQUALIFICATION: the Libraries' guide cautions against relying on detection tools and recommends policy/rubric alternatives, but does not state detection is disabled or prohibited — narrower than the reported SAS language, and this page's own finding rather than a copy of it. PROCESS: captured from University Policy 10.2.13 (university-wide, last reviewed 2020-06-02) for violations, sanctions, and the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, cross-checked against RU-N's own Student Affairs "Academic Integrity" page (accordion-collapsed sections expanded in a live browser read, not a plain fetch, and captured that way) for the locally-run due-process and appeals steps; both traced consistently with no conflict. ACCOMPANIMENT FOUND: a Campus Advisor plus a support person may be present; the Advisor may not speak in proceedings. RECORDING NOT ADDRESSED in either source. RECORD: transcript notation is stated only for expulsion ("permanent notation of disciplinary expulsion"); no general notation or retention-period rule is published for lesser sanctions, and that absence is stated rather than assumed; the XF-grade removal process (18-month minimum, workshop, written request) is recorded as the closest analogue. OFFICE: Office of Community Standards & Student Development, Woodward Hall 101, 973-353-1037, communitystandards@newark.rutgers.edu — confirmed on both the RU-N Academic Integrity and Code of Student Conduct pages. OMBUDS: none located for Newark specifically; the only Rutgers-branded ombuds office found scopes itself to New Brunswick, as detailed above, and a search for "student advocate" at newark.rutgers.edu returned nothing. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-12).

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