University of Houston-Downtown.

What UHD's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

Not addressed in the ordinary instructor/chair/dean track of PS 03.A.19, which names no advisor, support person, or recording rule. If a case escalates to a Student Discipline Committee hearing under the separate Student Rights and Responsibilities policy, "[a]n Advisor may confer with and advise the student but may not advocate for the student... or directly address the Student Discipline Committee," and "The chair or their designee will facilitate the official recording. The student may have a copy of the recording , upon request in writing to the Student Conduct Officer." — PS 03.A.19 Academic Honesty §4.1.2.C; PS 04.A.01 Student Rights and Responsibilities §2.1, §4.7.3 (Issue No. 5, effective May 4, 2015; and current issue, respectively; retrieved Sep 21, 2026) · PS 03.A.19 — Academic Honesty

What follows on the record

Not stated in PS 03.A.19 for an ordinary instructor-assigned penalty (such as a failing grade). Where a case is referred to the Office of the Dean of Students for "multiple and/or flagrant violations" and proceeds to a Student Discipline Committee sanction, the Student Rights and Responsibilities policy states: "Suspension will be noted on the student's permanent record" and "Expulsion will be noted on the student's permanent record"; disciplinary records for lesser sanctions are "maintained by the Student Conduct Officer for six years after the final disposition of the case," and are "confidential and shall not be accessible to or used by anyone other than the Dean of Students or University officials with legitimate educational interests, except upon written authorization of the student or in accordance with applicable state or federal laws, or court order, or subpoena." — PS 04.A.01 Student Rights and Responsibilities §3.5.1.G–H, §4.11 (retrieved Sep 21, 2026) · PS 04.A.01 — Student Rights and Responsibilities

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

UHD's Academic Honesty policy (PS 03.A.19, Issue No. 5, effective 5/4/2015; retrieved Sep 21, 2026) states the code and the ordinary process:

The ordinary appeal runs instructor → department chair (or program director) → Office of the Dean of the faculty member's college → Student Discipline Committee, whose decision "is final," each step carrying its own 10–15 working-day window. No standard of proof is named in PS 03.A.19 itself; the escalated Student Discipline Committee track, governed by the separate Student Rights and Responsibilities policy, defines and applies "[p]reponderance of the evidence" as "the standard of review in the student discipline process, which evaluates whether it is more likely than not that the student violated a policy provision." Sanctions under PS 03.A.19 are "left to the discretion of the faculty member," with an F in the course reserved for instances of "multiple and/or flagrant violations," which the faculty member "shall also refer the matter to the Office of the Dean of Students for disciplinary action." Source: PS 03.A.19 — Academic Honesty; PS 04.A.01 — Student Rights and Responsibilities. 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

2026-09-21 — Page created by an automated build pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. First-party material captured this date from uhd.edu (CTLE's Academic Integrity and Recommendations for AI in Teaching pages; the Academic Resources page; the Dean of Students landing page) and from UHD's Policy Statements repository, hosted on a third-party document portal (uhd.public.doctract.com), for PS 03.A.19 Academic Honesty (Issue No. 5, effective May 4, 2015, no more recent issue found) and PS 04.A.01 Student Rights and Responsibilities (current issue, no effective date displayed on its face). Both PDFs were retrieved directly from the portal's document-storage endpoint (a session-scoped temporary-token URL located via the rendered page's network requests) rather than the client-rendered HTML shell at the documentportal link, and are preserved as supplied captures rather than fetched fresh by the recipe, since the token URL is not stable; the documentportal link itself is retained in the source map as the durable, human-followable citation. The library's Turnitin FAQ (answers.library.uhd.edu/faq/243846), found only via a search-engine summary, 404s on direct fetch and in a browser and is not used anywhere on this page. Named-vendor sweep and category sweep (TTLC assessment-tools table, CTLE AI guidance, Academic Honesty policy) both came back empty of any institutionally deployed AI-text detector; Turnitin, ProctorU, Faronics Insight, and Respondus LockDown Browser/Monitor are all documented for plagiarism-checking or exam-proctoring purposes only. The CTLE's "word about plagiarism detectors" is quoted with its own provenance — teaching-center pedagogical guidance to instructors, not an Office of the Dean of Students or Academic Honesty Policy statement disabling or barring a tool — and is not treated as a step-2 disqualification, the same reading applied to comparably worded pages at other built institutions. SCOPE SPLIT, worth carrying to other UH System entries in this queue: UHD is a separate institution within the University of Houston System, with its own PS-numbered policy series, distinct from uh.edu (University of Houston) and uhcl.edu (University of Houston-Clear Lake); nothing on this page derives from either sister campus. GENUINE SCOPE DIFFERENCE, reproduced rather than resolved: PS 03.A.19's ordinary instructor/chair/dean track states no advisor, support-person, or recording rule at any step; only the separate, escalated Student Discipline Committee track (reached via a "multiple and/or flagrant violations" referral, or a further appeal from the Dean's decision) is governed by PS 04.A.01, which does address an Advisor role and an official hearing recording. The docket states this split explicitly rather than importing the escalated track's language onto the ordinary one. Transcript notation is stated only for suspension and expulsion outcomes under PS 04.A.01; PS 03.A.19 itself states no transcript consequence for an instructor-assigned course penalty. No ombuds or student-advocacy office was located on uhd.edu; the search covered "ombud," "ombudsperson," and "student advocate" and found only University of Houston (uh.edu) results, a separate institution not used here. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Internet Archive captures pending — to be requested by a later capture pass. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-21).

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