University of North Carolina Wilmington.
- Detection status
- Turnitin AI Detection available in Canvas, instructor-enabled; not recommended as the only documentation for an Honor Code referral
- Office in these sources
- Office of the Dean of Students · DePaolo Hall, Suite 1092, 601 S College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403 · 910-962-3119 · deanofstudents@uncw.edu
- Ombuds or advocacy office
- None located on the institution's own pages in this review. UNCW's only office titled "Ombuds" is the University Ombuds position housed in Human Resources, open to "permanent and time-limited employees," not students · uncw.edu — Internal Posting for University Ombuds Opportunity
- Sources last checked
- Sep 16, 2026
Reproduced from the institution's own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.
UNCW's published sources on AI detection and the Student Academic Honor Code, quoted and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — course syllabi and department rules may also apply, and UNCW itself asks instructors to state their own AI rules on the syllabus. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
AI detection is in use at UNCW
UNCW's Honor Code Faculty Resources page, addressed to instructors, states (retrieved Sep 16, 2026; no on-page date displayed):
Source: Honor Code Faculty Resources — Office of the Dean of Students. The same page names other commercial detectors — Phrasly, Copyleaks, and GPTZero among them — as tools "available online" with "varying levels of reliability"; UNCW's own pages do not state that the university deploys any of these, only that instructors may encounter them, so they are not recorded here as institution-deployed tools.
The named-vendor sweep of uncw.edu found no first-party statement naming Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, or Examity as a tool UNCW itself has deployed. The category sweep (LibGuides AI and Academic Integrity guide, Honor Code pages) found no separate exam-proctoring or LMS-integration detector beyond the Canvas Turnitin tool named above.
What UNCW's own pages say about how cases proceed
- Who may be present
- "A university or non-university advisor is permissible in an Administrative and Student Academic Honor Board hearing," but "[t]he advisor may not speak on the respondent's behalf at the hearing." — 03.100 Academic Honor Code, revised August 2026; retrieved Sep 16, 2026. Recording of the hearing is not addressed in the policy · 03.100 Academic Honor Code
- What follows on the record
- "A notation of suspension or expulsion will be placed on the transcript as 'Honor Code Suspension' or 'Honor Code Expulsion' respectively." A failing grade assigned as a sanction "shall not be replaced if the course is repeated." — 03.100 Academic Honor Code, revised August 2026; retrieved Sep 16, 2026 · 03.100 Academic Honor Code
The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution's own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.
From UNCW's 03.100 Academic Honor Code (revised August 2026; retrieved Sep 16, 2026):
On the evidentiary standard, the policy adds that "preponderance of evidence" means "there is greater than a 50% likelihood, based on the evidence presented, the respondent is responsible for the alleged violation." On sanctions, the policy lists a range running from written warning and disciplinary probation through final probation, deferred suspension, suspension, and expulsion, and states that "[g]enerally," a course-failure sanction is assigned for Honor Code offenses. On appeals, a student may appeal "within two (2) business days after notification of the original decision"; the appeal is reviewed by the Provost for whether the student's rights were violated, whether the sanction was grossly excessive, or whether new evidence exists, with a decision to follow "within ten (10) business days." Source: 03.100 Academic Honor Code. 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.
Where the documents live
| Document | Location |
|---|---|
| 03.100 Academic Honor Code (procedure, evidentiary standard, sanctions, appeals, transcript notation) | uncw.edu/about/policies/academic/03.100-academic-honor-code.html (revised August 2026; retrieved Sep 16, 2026) |
| Honor Code Faculty Resources (Turnitin AI Detection in Canvas, instructor guidance) | uncw.edu — Honor Code Faculty Resources (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Sep 16, 2026) |
| AI and Academic Integrity (LibGuide, student-facing AI-use guidance) | libguides.uncw.edu — AI and Academic Integrity (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Sep 16, 2026) |
| Office of the Dean of Students (Honor Code administration, office contact) | uncw.edu — Office of the Dean of Students, Contact Us (retrieved Sep 16, 2026) |
| University Ombuds (Human Resources posting; employee-only scope) | uncw.edu — Internal Posting for University Ombuds Opportunity (Aug 2024; retrieved Sep 16, 2026) |
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.
Revision history of this page
2026-09-16 — Page created. Named-vendor and category detector sweeps run against uncw.edu and libguides.uncw.edu; the only institution-deployed detector established first-party is the Turnitin AI Detection tool available in Canvas, instructor-enabled, per the Honor Code Faculty Resources page (no on-page date displayed). Procedure, evidentiary standard, sanctions, appeal path and window, and transcript-notation quotations captured from the 03.100 Academic Honor Code (revised August 2026). Office contact captured from the Office of the Dean of Students' own Contact Us page. Ombuds/advocacy sweep found only a Human Resources posting for a "University Ombuds" open to "permanent and time-limited employees," not students, so the docket records no eligible ombuds or student-advocacy office; a Student Affairs case-management function exists (Office of the Dean of Students) but UNCW does not describe it as independent, confidential, or impartial, and it was not substituted for an ombuds. Recording of hearings is not addressed in the policy reviewed. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-16).
2026-09-17 — 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: Internal Posting for University Ombuds Opportunity | UNCW → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917144557/https://www.uncw.edu/news/administrative-units/human-resources/2024/08/internal-posting-for-university-ombuds-opportunity; Honor Code Faculty Resources | UNCW → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917144740/https://www.uncw.edu/about/university-administration/student-affairs/departments/dean-students/honor-code/faculty-resources; 03.100 Academic Honor Code | UNCW → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917144828/https://www.uncw.edu/about/policies/academic/03.100-academic-honor-code; AI and Academic Integrity - Artificial Intelligence - LibGuides at University of North Carolina Wilmington → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917144901/https://libguides.uncw.edu/c.php?g=1496797&p=11260852; Contact Us | UNCW → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917145042/https://www.uncw.edu/about/university-administration/student-affairs/departments/dean-students/about/contact-us.
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