Strayer University.

Detection status: Turnitin offered through Canvas Draft Review as a self-check students "may choose" to run before submitting for grading — confirmed first-party, though the current library FAQ page is login-gated and is quoted here from an Internet Archive capture; the Academic Integrity Policy separately reserves the University's right to review any submitted work, but no page states that Turnitin or any tool automatically screens every submission; the Honor Code and Policy both make violating a separate "Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students" guidelines document its own violation, but that document sits behind Strayer's iCampus student-login portal and could not be read
Office in these sources: Office of Student Affairs — P.O. Box 710927, Herndon, VA 20171 · (877) 261-6908 · studentaffairs@strayer.edu (general) · academicintegrity@strayer.edu (grade-sanction appeals) · Other Grievances — Student Handbook
Ombuds or advocacy office: None located on the institution's own pages in this review.
Sources last checked: Sep 25, 2026

Reproduced from the institution’s own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.

Strayer University's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted in brief and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — the Student Handbook's Academic Integrity Policy (Student Disciplinary and Grievance Policies and Procedures) is the governing disciplinary text for academic-integrity violations, and its Honor Code and Acts of Academic Misconduct sections make violating a separately published "Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students" guidelines document its own, distinct violation; the Code of Student Conduct treats any Academic Integrity Policy violation as a conduct violation in its own right; and individual course syllabi may add rules. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates or deadlines are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01Detection status

What is documented — and what isn't

The Academic Integrity Policy (Student Handbook; retrieved Sep 2, 2026; no modification date stated on the page) sets out the Honor Code every student agrees to from enrollment:

"I promise to conduct myself with integrity in the submission of all academic work to the University and will not give or receive unauthorized assistance for the completion of assignments, research papers, examinations, or other work. I understand that violation of the Academic Integrity Policy and/or Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students guidelines will lead to disciplinary action against me, up to and including suspension or expulsion from the University."

Its list of 17 named Acts of Academic Misconduct closes with a category naming that same document directly:

"17. Violations of the University’s Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students guidelines."

The Policy separately reserves the University's right to inspect a student's work generally: "The University reserves the right to review any work (draft or otherwise) or exam submitted by a student during his or her entire academic career at Strayer for the purposes of this policy." No page located in this review states that this review right is carried out by an AI-writing detector, by Turnitin's AI-writing indicator specifically, or by any named automated tool — it is a reservation of authority, not a description of a detection method.

Strayer's Library FAQ answering "What is TurnItIn? Is there a plagiarism checker available to students?" names the one tool this review did confirm:

"Turnitin is the software Strayer University provides to current students to support ethical writing. You may choose to submit an assignment using the Draft section of your Canvas course before you submit your work for grading to the instructor. The Draft feature provides you with an originality report to aid you in revising your work."

That page (ask.library.strayer.edu/faq/408384) now requires a Strayer single-sign-on login to view — confirmed this session both by a direct fetch, which returned a SAML redirect to signon.strayer.edu, and by a browser navigation, which reached the same login page — so it is quoted here from the Internet Archive's Aug 18, 2024 capture of the page, taken before that login gate was in place; the page's own byline records "Last Updated May 17, 2024." This is a materially different method from a live first-party fetch: the quotation is what Strayer's library published on that date, not a confirmation that the page reads identically today. Nothing in it, live or archived, describes an AI-writing-detection feature — only an optional, student-initiated originality/plagiarism check run through a "Draft" section of the Canvas course, ahead of the graded submission.

A second Library FAQ, "What is generative artificial intelligence?" (ask.library.strayer.edu/faq/405951; same login restriction confirmed the same way; quoted here from the Internet Archive's Apr 13, 2024 capture, recording the page's own "Last Updated Apr 03, 2024"), answers only the general question of what generative AI is and names no Strayer-specific policy in its own text. Its "Links & Files" section, however, links directly to the document both the Honor Code and Item 17 name: "Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students," hosted at icampus.strayer.edu/important-academic-policies-and-information/ethical-standards-ai. That page sits on iCampus, Strayer's student intranet portal, and requires the same SSO login a direct fetch confirmed; the Internet Archive's only recorded crawl of it (Jul 8, 2024) is itself a login redirect, not a captured page. Whatever that document says about a detection method, a named vendor, an evidentiary weight, or a human-verification approach is therefore not reflected anywhere in this review — stated here as an access limit, not as a negative finding, and left for a later session with a Strayer student or alumni login to read and promote into this section.

Named-vendor sweep across strayer.edu, coursecatalog.strayer.edu, and the reachable pages of the current Student Handbook on strayer.smartcatalogiq.com found no reference to Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, or Grammarly Authorship, and no reference to Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, or Examity. Category sweep: the LMS is confirmed as Canvas by the Academic Policies and Procedures page's own attendance provisions — students satisfy weekly attendance by, among other things, work "in the Learning Management System (LMS), i.e. Canvas" — and no AI-detection tool beyond Turnitin was found integrated there. Strayer offers no doctoral or dissertation-track program; its highest offerings are master's degrees and the Jack Welch Management Institute's graduate business programs, so this review found no separate graduate-pipeline detection tool to check, unlike the undergraduate/graduate splits some other institutions in this collection document. No IT service catalogue or supported-software list distinct from the Library's FAQs and the iCampus portal was located.

Sources: Academic Integrity Policy — Student Handbook · What is TurnItIn? — Strayer Library FAQ · What is generative artificial intelligence? — Strayer Library FAQ · Academic Policies and Procedures.

02Published process

What Strayer's own documents say about how cases proceed

Who may be present: "The student has the right to be accompanied by counsel and/or other advisers such as parents or relatives" at a Disciplinary Committee appeal hearing — the escalated stage reached only after a suspension, expulsion, degree revocation, or grade-reduction sanction is appealed — but "counsel and/or advisers may not speak or participate directly in the hearing. The student must speak for him or herself." "A recording of the hearing will be kept by the University," stated as something the University does, not a right the student is told to invoke. No provision addresses an accompanying person or recording at the earlier Level I-III warning stage most academic-integrity matters resolve at without reaching a hearing. — Disciplinary Procedures (Student Handbook; retrieved Sep 2, 2026) · Disciplinary Procedures
What follows on the record: "Course failure, suspension, expulsion, or degree revocation will be permanently noted on the student’s transcript along with an indication that the action was taken because of an academic integrity violation." Retention beyond that transcript notation, and disclosure to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards, are not addressed in the sources reviewed. — Academic Integrity Policy, Records and Financial Responsibilities (Student Handbook; retrieved Sep 2, 2026) · Academic Integrity Policy

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

Per the Academic Integrity Policy (Student Handbook; retrieved Sep 2, 2026): when an instructor determines a violation occurred, "the instructor will review the submission and issue a grade sanction commensurate with the violation" — for severe or repeated violations, "the grade sanction may include issuing a zero grade on the assignment" — and reports the sanction to the Office of Student Affairs, which "may determine whether additional sanctions, above and beyond the instructor issued grade sanction, will be imposed," drawn from a list running from a "Code of Conduct Warning letter (Level 1 or 2)" and "remediation letter/activities" through "administrative course failure (F**), noted on the student's permanent record," suspension, expulsion, and "revocation of a degree awarded at Strayer University." Per the Disciplinary Procedures page, a Level I incident of misconduct "shall be reported to the Office of Student Affairs," and, if substantiated, draws "a warning letter... issued to the student and stored electronically"; a prior Level I finding or a sufficiently serious violation escalates to Level II on the same terms. A Level III matter — or one the Office of Student Affairs considers serious enough to bypass the earlier levels — is investigated by the Assistant Vice Provost of Student Affairs, who may impose suspension or expulsion and must give the student "written notice" naming the Code section violated and the sanction, together with "the opportunity to appeal the decision within ten (10) business days after receiving notice."

Appeals split by what is being appealed. A student appealing an instructor's academic-integrity grade sanction emails academicintegrity@strayer.edu within 10 business days; the grounds are limited to "new or previously not considered evidence that shows no violation took place," a consequence "not commensurate with the offense," or a procedural "failure to follow procedures constituted an error," and "[t]he decision of the Office of Student Affairs is final." A student appealing an Office of Student Affairs sanction — a Level 1 or 2 warning, a suspension, an expulsion, an administrative failure, or a degree revocation — has the same 10-business-day window and the same three grounds; Level 1 and 2 warnings are decided on the papers by the Assistant Vice Provost, Student Affairs and are "not eligible for appeal hearings before the Disciplinary Committee," with that decision "final." A suspension, expulsion, or revocation instead goes to a University Designee, who first screens the appeal letter for "sufficient evidence to warrant an appeal hearing"; where granted, a three-member Disciplinary Committee (plus the University Provost) convenes a teleconference hearing on the accompany and recording terms quoted above, witnesses may be called by either side with names disclosed "at least 24 hours in advance," and "[a] written decision will be issued... within ten (10) days after the hearing" that "will be final." What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

03Source map

Where the documents live

Document	Location
Academic Integrity Policy — Honor Code, Acts of Academic Misconduct (incl. Item 17's AI-guidelines reference), Reporting, Sanctions, Honors Implications, Records and Financial Responsibilities, Appeals (governing text; Student Handbook)	strayer.smartcatalogiq.com — Academic Integrity Policy
Code of Student Conduct (Student Handbook)	strayer.smartcatalogiq.com — Code of Student Conduct
Sanctions (Student Handbook)	strayer.smartcatalogiq.com — Sanctions
Disciplinary Procedures — Level I-III process, Disciplinary Committee appeal, accompany and recording terms (Student Handbook)	strayer.smartcatalogiq.com — Disciplinary Procedures
Academic Grievance Procedures — final-grade appeals, a separate track from academic-integrity appeals (Student Handbook)	strayer.smartcatalogiq.com — Academic Grievance Procedures
Student Problem Resolution — Office of Student Affairs contact routing (Catalog; the former strayer.smartcatalogiq.com address returns HTTP 404 and in a browser now opens the 2024-2025 catalog, so this row links the current Course Catalog's page)	coursecatalog.strayer.edu — Student Problem Resolution (retrieved Sep 25, 2026)
Other Grievances — Office of Student Affairs mailing address, phone, and email (Student Handbook)	strayer.smartcatalogiq.com — Other Grievances
Academic Policies and Procedures — Canvas/LMS confirmation	coursecatalog.strayer.edu — Academic Policies and Procedures
What is TurnItIn? — Strayer Library FAQ (login-gated live; quoted from an Internet Archive capture, Aug 18, 2024)	ask.library.strayer.edu/faq/408384
What is generative artificial intelligence? — Strayer Library FAQ, links to the Ethical Standards & AI document (login-gated live; quoted from an Internet Archive capture, Apr 13, 2024)	ask.library.strayer.edu/faq/405951
Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students (title and location only; hosted on iCampus, login-gated, not captured as text this session)	icampus.strayer.edu — Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students

Organizing your own drafts and records to bring to any of this: the records checklist. Capturing the pages above as they read today, and keeping your own dated record beside them: what to do with these sources.

04Change log

Revision history of this page

2026-09-02 — Page created. Detection-inventory sweep run first: named-vendor sweep across strayer.edu, coursecatalog.strayer.edu, and the reachable pages of the current Student Handbook on strayer.smartcatalogiq.com found no reference to Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, or Grammarly Authorship, and no reference to Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, or Examity. Category sweep — the LMS (confirmed Canvas via the Academic Policies and Procedures page's attendance provisions), the absence of any doctoral or dissertation program at Strayer (so no separate graduate-pipeline detector to check), and no IT service catalogue distinct from the Library's FAQs and the iCampus portal — found only Turnitin. Disqualification check run on that completed inventory: not disqualified — Turnitin's originality/plagiarism check is confirmed first-party and actively offered through Canvas Draft Review, and nothing found states it, or any other tool, has been disabled or recommended against; the finding is an access limit, not a negative result — the document the Honor Code and the Academic Integrity Policy's Item 17 name as governing AI use specifically, "Ethical Standards & Appropriate Use of AI for Students," sits behind Strayer's iCampus student-login portal and could not be read this session, so whether it describes a detection method, a named vendor, or a human-verification approach is unknown and stated as such rather than assumed. CAPTURE METHOD NOTE, disclosed in full: both Library FAQs quoted on this page — "What is TurnItIn?" (faq/408384) and "What is generative artificial intelligence?" (faq/405951) — now redirect to a Strayer SSO login (signon.strayer.edu) on both a direct fetch and a browser navigation attempted this session; they are quoted instead from Internet Archive captures taken before that login gate existed (Aug 18, 2024 for the Turnitin FAQ, recording the page's own "Last Updated May 17, 2024"; Apr 13, 2024 for the generative-AI FAQ, recording the page's own "Last Updated Apr 03, 2024"), saved to tools/supplied/strayer-source3.txt and tools/supplied/strayer-source4.txt. This is disclosed as a materially different method from a live first-party fetch: the quoted text is what Strayer's own library published on those 2024 dates, not a confirmation that the pages read identically today, and a later session that gains a Strayer login should re-verify both FAQs and the iCampus AI-guidelines page directly. The iCampus AI-guidelines page itself (icampus.strayer.edu/important-academic-policies-and-information/ethical-standards-ai) has no readable Internet Archive capture — its one recorded crawl (Jul 8, 2024) is itself a login redirect — so nothing about its content, even archived, is reflected on this page beyond its title and location, taken from the generative-AI FAQ's own "Links & Files" citation of it. Captured first-party (live, this date) via direct fetch and browser: the Academic Integrity Policy in full (Honor Code, all 17 Acts of Academic Misconduct including Item 17's AI-guidelines reference, Reporting, Sanctions, Honors Implications, Administration of Sanctions, Records and Financial Responsibilities, and both Appeals sections), the Code of Student Conduct, the Sanctions page, the Disciplinary Procedures page (accompany, recording, and Disciplinary Committee appeal terms), the Academic Grievance Procedures page, the Other Grievances page (Office of Student Affairs mailing address, phone, and email), and the Academic Policies and Procedures page (Canvas/LMS confirmation). One further capture-method note: the Student Problem Resolution page returns an HTTP 404 status to a plain fetch even though it renders as a real, correctly titled page with real content in a browser — apparently because this particular "catalog"-prefixed route is served through client-side fallback rendering on the SmartCatalog platform, unlike the "student-handbook"-prefixed pages used elsewhere on this page, which return HTTP 200 directly. It was read in a browser this session and is quoted as a first-party capture on that basis, saved to tools/supplied/strayer-source10.txt. No ombuds or student-advocacy office located: searched the Student Problem Resolution and Other Grievances pages — the Student Handbook's two general complaint routes — and the general web; the only related title found, Dean of Students, names the same person who oversees the Office of Student Affairs, the office that investigates and sanctions academic-integrity violations, and so is not independent of the office it would need to sit apart from; docket states the absence. Strayer University is a private, for-profit institution: this page quotes brief excerpts and links originals; it republishes nothing in full. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-03). Internet Archive captures: to be added.

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).

2026-09-25 — Dead-link repair and source re-verification, run by an automated agent in an attended session; Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-25). The catalog page “Student Problem Resolution” at strayer.smartcatalogiq.com/en/current/catalog/policies-and-procedures/student-problem-resolution returned HTTP 404 to a cloud crawler and to curl on the host. In a browser that address now opens the 2024-2025 catalog. Strayer's current Course Catalog (coursecatalog.strayer.edu) publishes the page at coursecatalog.strayer.edu/student-problem-resolution, with the same Office of Student Affairs routing at 877.261.6908; it now names “the Office of Student Affairs” where the older catalog read “the student affairs office”. The source-map row now links there. Nothing on this page quotes it. The capture recipe now reads the current page; the hand-read text of the former address was kept under a superseded name in tools/supplied/. Every source in this page's capture recipe was re-fetched this date by tools/capture.py on the host (review capture tools/packets/review/strayer-2026-09-25.txt); the three session-read or supplied sources were not re-read. The page traces with zero failures and the capture was promoted. Detection status unchanged.

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