Utah Tech University.

What Utah Tech's own pages say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

"A student has a right to be advised and accompanied by any one person of the student's choice to any meeting or hearing in the Academic or Professional Misconduct process, but the student must inform the instructor or University official in advance as to who will accompany the student." At a Committee hearing specifically, "[t]he student may have an advisor present throughout the proceedings," but "[t]he role of the advisor is limited to 'advising' and as such is limited to conferring with the student only." Recording is not addressed anywhere in the policy. — Policy 555, §4.3.3 and §6.3.8 (revised Apr 26, 2024; editorial update May 22, 2024; retrieved Sep 22, 2026) · Policy 555 (PDF)

What follows on the record

The Associate Provost for Academic Success "is responsible for keeping a permanent record of all cases of Academic and Professional Misconduct in the online case management system" — every reported case, not only escalated ones. A transcript notation is stated only for the University-level track: "A notation on the student's academic transcript that the F grade in a specific course was issued for Academic or Professional Misconduct" is listed among the sanctions "the Academic Integrity and Professional Misconduct Committee" may impose — a Course-Level sanction handled by the instructor alone does not itself carry a stated transcript notation. — Policy 555, §6.1.11 and §6.3.16.1

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

Utah Tech's Policy 555 (Student Academic and Professional Misconduct; revised Apr 26, 2024, editorial update May 22, 2024; retrieved Sep 22, 2026) sets a single evidentiary standard:

Repeat offenses, or a case a student contests, go to a hearing before the Academic Integrity and Professional Misconduct Committee (at least seven members, including at least three students), which is "closed to the public," requires "[a]t least five (5) voting members" present, and decides "based on a majority vote of those in attendance" (§6.3.3, §6.3.13, §6.3.15). University-level sanctions available there range through misconduct probation, suspension or dismissal "for a minimum of one semester," and denial or revocation of a degree "reserved for the most flagrant instances" (§6.3.16). Source: Policy 555 (PDF); Code of Student Rights & 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

2026-09-22 — Page created by an automated build pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. First-party material captured this date from help.utahtech.edu (Copyleaks for Instructors, dated Aug 20, 2025), utahtech.edu (the central AI hub, the Academic Success office page naming Helen Tate as Associate Provost for Academic Success), ctl.utahtech.edu (Generative AI Tools for Teaching and Learning), ombuds.utahtech.edu (About the Office and Contact the Ombuds), and catalog.utahtech.edu (the Code of Student Rights & Responsibilities and the full Policy 555 PDF, 17 pages, fetched directly). Named-vendor and category sweeps found one confirmed deployment, Copyleaks, which replaced Turnitin; no other detector is named or deployed anywhere in the sources reviewed. NOT AN EMPTY INVENTORY and NOT DISQUALIFIED: Copyleaks' plagiarism-checking component is available to any instructor who enables "plagiarism review" on a Canvas assignment, and its AI Content Detection component is a further, separate, off-by-default toggle — the IT Helpdesk article states this plainly rather than cautioning against use, so it is recorded as an instructor opt-in rather than either a campus-wide default or a disablement. OFFICE CONTACT NOTE: no generic office-wide email or phone for the Associate Provost for Academic Success was found distinct from the current officeholder's own listed contact (Helen Tate, Holland 322); that individual contact is what utahtech.edu/academic-success/ itself publishes for the role responsible for Policy 555 cases, so it is used as published rather than substituted with an inferred general address. OMBUDS: Utah Tech's Office of Ombuds describes itself in the institution's own words as confidential and functioning "independently," and lists students among those it serves, so it is presented on this page — but its own list of what it assists with (colleague/faculty disagreements, policy and procedure questions, an objective perspective, mediation) does not name academic-integrity or misconduct allegations specifically, and that is stated rather than assumed. SCOPE PRECISION recorded on the page: Policy 555's transcript-notation sanction (§6.3.16.1) is listed only among University-Level sanctions available to the Academic Integrity and Professional Misconduct Committee, not among Course-Level sanctions an instructor may impose alone (§6.1.6.1) — the two lists were read separately rather than treating the University-level notation as automatic for every case. Recording of a meeting or hearing is not addressed anywhere in the 17-page policy; stated as not stated, not inferred either way. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Internet Archive captures pending — to be requested by a later capture pass. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-22).

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