University of Louisiana Monroe.

What ULM's Code of Student Conduct says about how cases proceed

Who may be present

A student may "appear alone or with any one other person of the student's... choice to advise and assist," who "may be a relative, a fellow student, a friend, a teacher, an attorney or an ombudsman." That adviser "shall not have voice and shall not address" the hearing panel and "does not have the right to examine or cross-examine" anyone; the adviser "must limit their activities to only advising the student... privately." All hearings are "tape-recorded," and "[t]he University retains the sole right to record hearings. No other recordings may be made of hearings." — Code of Student Conduct · 25-26 Code of Student Conduct

What follows on the record

For a time-limited suspension, "[a] notation will be placed on the student's transcript "Student is eligible to return (semester) (year)"... The transcript indicates which semester the student will be eligible to return." For a permanent dismissal, "[a] notation will be placed on a student's" transcript, reading "Student is ineligible to enroll," when the student is permanently dismissed from the university for disciplinary reasons. — Code of Student Conduct, Sections 6.01:19 and 6.01:21 · 25-26 Code of Student Conduct

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

Academic cheating and plagiarism are defined and penalized directly by the Code (retrieved Oct 17, 2026): "the instructor shall initiate the investigation... The instructor shall further call the Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability to determine whether the student has a record of previous academic offenses." Penalties escalate on repeat findings from "a minimum grade of zero" on the first offense, to "a minimum grade of 'F' in the course" on the second, to "suspended from the University for an indefinite period" on the third; "the student, instructor, instructor's Department Head, the student's College Dean, and the Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability shall be notified of the censure within five class/business days of the decision." A student has the right "[t]o be presumed not responsible until proven responsible and to have the specified University Unit decide responsibility based on a reasonable standard of proof (Preponderance of Evidence) presented during the hearing." If a formal hearing follows, "[a]ll hearings will be tape-recorded and a brief written summary of the proceedings will be made," and "[a] simple majority vote of the hearing panel members is required to find a student... in violation of the Code." A written appeal "shall be submitted within three (3) class/business days from the date of the decision being appealed. Failure to submit a written letter of appeal within that time period will result in forfeiture of the right to appeal." Source: 25-26 Code of Student Conduct. 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

2026-10-17 — Page created. Priority A tranche 4, entry 270. Cold build (no prior CANDIDATES.md/procedure-facts research). All quotations retrieved this date. Neither PDF displays its own revision date on the page; both report "Last-Modified: Wed, 27 May 2026" in server headers, and the Code of Student Conduct identifies itself as the "25-26" edition in its own running footer and cover. 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 none named anywhere in the Code of Student Conduct or the Student Handbook; both PDFs were fetched directly (curl with a browser User-Agent string) and searched in full for "Turnitin," "artificial intelligence," and "AI," with zero matches in either. Category sweep: ULM's IT and library pages for a Turnitin/Canvas/Moodle integration, plus one site search for faculty AI guidance, found only a third-party citation of a ULM library guide ("Generative AI in the Classroom," ulm.libguides.com) whose address returns a 404 as of this pass; nothing is quoted from it and it is not in the source map. DISQUALIFICATION CHECK: an empty inventory, not a documented disabling or a recommendation against detection; not disqualified. PROCESS-VERIFICATION SWEEP: the same pages, plus one additional site search, found nothing beyond the instructor-initiated investigation already quoted in section 01; none-published at the scope searched. PROCESS drawn from the Code of Student Conduct: the Cheating and Plagiarism penalty-grade escalation (Section 3.02:05), the instructor-initiation and OSAA-notification step (Section 7.02:03), the accompaniment right including "an ombudsman" among permitted advisers (Section 4.02:02, A), the preponderance standard (Section 4.02:01, F), the sole-right-to-record rule (Section 7.04 hearing-panel procedures, item J), the appeal window of "three (3) class/business days" (Section 7.03:06), and the two transcript-notation provisions for time-limited suspension and permanent dismissal (Sections 6.01:19 and 6.01:21) are all quoted directly from the PDF. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY SEARCH ("ombudsperson," "ombudsman," "student advocacy," run against ulm.edu and via site search): found only the Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability itself, which is the office administering the conduct process described above (it notifies students of censures, receives appeal filings, and holds hearing recordings) and is never described on its own pages as independent, confidential, or neutral; not presented here as a separate ombuds resource. Interestingly, the Code's own accompaniment provision lists "an ombudsman" as one category of permitted adviser, without identifying any ULM office by that title. OFFICE: Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability, Sandel Hall 387, 318-342-5230, osaa@ulm.edu, confirmed directly on the office's own contact page. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-17).

2026-10-18 — 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: ulm.edu/osaa → https://web.archive.org/web/20261018143024/https://www.ulm.edu/osaa/; ulm.edu/osaa/aboutus.html → https://web.archive.org/web/20261018143130/https://www.ulm.edu/osaa/aboutus.html; Code of Student Conduct, Section 3.02:05 → https://web.archive.org/web/20261018143258/https://www.ulm.edu/osaa/documents/25_26_student_code_of_conduct.pdf; ulm.edu/studenthandbook — 2023-24 Student Handbook → https://web.archive.org/web/20261018143412/https://www.ulm.edu/studenthandbook/23_24_ulm-student_handbook.pdf.

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