University of Central Florida.

What UCF's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

“The student may have, at their own expense and initiative, an advisor, advocate, or legal representative to be present and who can fully participate in the disciplinary proceeding.” — Rights Apply to a Student Disciplinary Proceeding, Student Conduct and Academic Integrity (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 31, 2026) · Rights Apply to a Student Disciplinary Proceeding

What follows on the record

“A Z designation denotes a student (undergraduate or graduate) was found ‘responsible’ of academic misconduct while enrolled in a course. A Z designation does not affect a student’s grade point average.” — Z Designation for Academic Misconduct, Student Conduct and Academic Integrity (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 31, 2026) · Z Designation for Academic Misconduct

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

From the page Student Conduct and Academic Integrity publishes as "Rights Apply to a Student Disciplinary Proceeding," where these appear as a list of stated rights (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 31, 2026):

Source: Rights Apply to a Student Disciplinary Proceeding — SCAI. The same page directs readers to UCF-5.009 in the Golden Rule Student Handbook for the detailed version.

On appeals, two first-party sources describe the filing window the same way and the appellate officer differently, and both are reproduced here without any determination of which governs. SCAI's conduct-appeals page states (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 31, 2026): "Students found responsible as a result of a formal hearing may appeal the finding(s) and sanction(s) imposed. The appeal must be made in writing to the Appellate Officer (VP of SSWB or designee) within ten (10) business days after the date the student was notified of the decision by the Director of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity (SCAI) or designee." Regulation UCF-5.015, which governs the academic-misconduct process specifically, states (regulation history ending 6-12-25; retrieved Aug 31, 2026): "The appeal must be made in writing to the appellate officer (Provost or designee) within ten (10) business days after the date the student was notified of the decision by the Director of SCAI or designee." Both enumerate the same three grounds: "Irregularities in fairness and stated procedures of the hearing that could have affected the outcome of the hearing"; "Discovery of new and significant information that could have affected the outcome of the hearing"; and "The sanction(s) are extraordinarily disproportionate to the violation(s)."

UCF-5.015 also states that the informal route forecloses appeal — "The outcomes from an informal resolution conference process (decision of responsibility and recommended sanctions) are final and are not eligible for appeal" — and that "Upon receipt of an AMR form SCAI has six months to charge a student with a violation of academic misconduct." On the transcript marker, SCAI's Z-designation page states: "A Z designation denotes a student (undergraduate or graduate) was found 'responsible' of academic misconduct while enrolled in a course. A Z designation does not affect a student's grade point average." What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-08-22 — Page created. All quotations retrieved this date from the ucf.edu pages linked beside them; the source pages displayed no on-page revision dates, so retrieval dates are recorded instead. No campus-wide statement on Turnitin's AI-writing-detection feature was located, and none is asserted. The appeals summary and the Z-designation reference in section 02 are paraphrase pending verification against the linked pages; the UCF-5.015 regulation PDF is linked but was not captured and read in this review — a manual read of all three is required before their contents are characterized further. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter. Internet Archive captures: to be added.

2026-08-23 — Sources re-fetched and compared this date by an automated source re-verification; no human review is claimed for this entry. This review changed the page substantially, and the corrections are set out here rather than made silently. Section 02, student rights. The page linked as scai.sswb.ucf.edu/rights/ is not where SCAI publishes this material; the live page is titled "Rights Apply to a Student Disciplinary Proceeding" at scai.sswb.ucf.edu/student-rights-in-the-student-conduct-review-process/, and the link was moved there. Five of the six quotations previously shown did not match that page's current text and were replaced with the current wording. Previously shown: "The charged student shall be afforded timely written notice…"; now: "Timely written notice, at least seven (7) business days prior to each disciplinary proceeding, unless waived in writing." Previously the advisor sentence ended "…in the disciplinary proceeding (i.e., informal resolution conference or formal hearing)"; the parenthetical is not on the current page. Previously the burden quotation continued "[…] The university has the burden to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that a violation has taken place"; that second sentence is not on the current page, which instead ends "…until the preponderance of evidence proves otherwise, except if the student accepts responsibility for the charge(s)." The five-business-day inspection right is now stated with its clauses in the opposite order and was requoted accordingly. The self-incrimination and right-to-silence material, previously joined by "In addition," appears on the current page as two separate items and is now shown that way. The fifteen-business-day academic-integrity results sentence was found unchanged, verbatim. Section 02, pending paraphrases resolved. The appeals summary and the Z-designation reference, both marked paraphrase-pending at publication, were replaced with quotations from the sources. Re-fetching them surfaced a divergence between two first-party sources: SCAI's conduct-appeals page names the Appellate Officer as the VP of SSWB or designee, while Regulation UCF-5.015, which governs academic misconduct specifically, names the Provost or designee. Both are now reproduced side by side with no determination of which governs. Both state the same ten-business-day written filing window and the same three grounds, which are now quoted rather than summarized as "grounds it enumerates." UCF-5.015 read. The regulation PDF, linked but uncaptured at publication, was captured and read this date; its history line ends 6-12-25, and that date is now shown in the source map. Two provisions bearing on the process were added: that informal resolution outcomes are final and not eligible for appeal, and the six-month charging window from receipt of an Academic Misconduct Report form. Section 01. The Faculty Center quotations — the turnitin.com account and similarity description, "Unauthorized use of artificial intelligence is also plagiarism," and the grade-sanctions-versus-administrative-actions passage — were all found present verbatim and unchanged. The academic-misconduct definition was previously quoted from the "Student Rules of Conduct" page and truncated before that page's parenthetical. It is now quoted in full from SCAI's Student Code of Conduct page, which carries the same definition and additionally names "unauthorized use of artificial intelligence tools" among its examples of academic misconduct — language the older Rules of Conduct page does not contain. Both pages remain live; the older one is retained in the source map and labeled, and no claim is made here about which is operative. Detection status. The first-party check was re-run across UCF's Faculty Center, SCAI, regulations and library pages. No statement enabling or disabling a Turnitin AI-writing indicator, and no statement on the evidentiary use of AI-detection results, was located; the stated absence in section 01 stands unchanged, and the similarity-index description remains what the faculty-center page documents. Internet Archive Save Page Now could not be reached from the environment this review ran in; captures remain pending for all sources on this page.

2026-08-23 (second entry) — Two link corrections from a browser check this date. First, a correction to the entry above: the older SCAI page at scai.sdes.ucf.edu/student-rules-of-conduct was recorded as still live. It is not. That address returns UCF's own "Page not found" page, so the pre-AI wording of the academic-misconduct definition is no longer published by SCAI, and the Student Code of Conduct page — which names "unauthorized use of artificial intelligence tools" among its examples — is the only version SCAI currently serves. Section 01 and the source map now say so. The Faculty Center page continues to link to the retired address, which is noted rather than resolved, since only UCF can fix that link. Second, goldenrule.sdes.ucf.edu redirects to goldenrule.sswb.ucf.edu, matching the sdes-to-sswb move already reflected elsewhere on this page; the source map now points at the current address. No quotation changed. Internet Archive captures were made this date for the student-rights page, the Student Code of Conduct, the student process page, the Z-designation page, the appeals page, UCF-5.015, the Golden Rule, and the Faculty Center integrity page. The retired Student Rules of Conduct address could not be captured, as the archive does not save 404 responses by default.

2026-08-23 — Ombuds capture added this date: UCF publishes an Ombuds Office in Millican Hall with two named ombuds, describing its function as confidential, impartial, informal, and independent, and stating that communication with the office does not constitute notice to UCF. UCF's own page states email is not appropriate for confidential communications, so the phone numbers are given first. Sources re-fetched and compared this date; automated pass, not a human review.

2026-08-23 — Section 02 now opens with the two questions an adviser raises first. Both answers were already quoted in this page’s section-02 prose — the advisor right from the student-rights page, the Z designation from SCAI’s Z-designation page — and were hoisted into the block rather than re-fetched; the prose below is unchanged. Automated pass; no human review is claimed for this entry.

2026-08-31 — Sources re-fetched and compared this date; automated pass, not a human review. Re-fetched and unchanged, every quotation verbatim: the Faculty Center integrity page (turnitin.com account and similarity description, "Unauthorized use of artificial intelligence is also plagiarism," and the grade-sanctions-versus-administrative-actions passage), the Student Code of Conduct (full academic-misconduct definition naming "unauthorized use of artificial intelligence tools"), the Rights Apply to a Student Disciplinary Proceeding page (all seven quotations), the Z-designation page (both sentences), the SCAI appeals page (VP of SSWB appellate officer, ten-business-day window, three grounds), and Regulation UCF-5.015 read again from the PDF (Provost-or-designee appellate officer, informal-resolution-final, six-month charging window). The two appellate-officer sources still diverge (VP of SSWB vs. Provost) and are reproduced side by side without resolution. The retired Student Rules of Conduct page (scai.sdes.ucf.edu) still returns UCF's "Page not found," re-confirmed this date; retrieval dates in sections 01–02 advanced to Aug 31. Ombuds function quotation and the Millican Hall Suite 243 / 823-6440 / 823-6441 contacts re-confirmed from ombuds.ucf.edu/contact, unchanged. Detection inventory re-run: no written-work AI detector beyond Turnitin similarity was located; the Faculty Center names Honorlock, Respondus LockDown Browser and ProctorHub only as online-exam proctoring solutions, not as AI-writing detectors, so the section-01 absence stands. No captures requested this pass.

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