University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

What UW-Eau Claire's own pages, and the state administrative code, say about how cases proceed

Who may be present

At a hearing before the academic misconduct hearing committee, the student has "the right to be accompanied by a representative of his or her choice." UW-Eau Claire's own Dean of Students page states that a student who disputes a charge may request a hearing before the "Student Misconduct Hearing Committee," made up of students and faculty members, and the office's own Attorney Guide to the Student Conduct Process cautions that the process "is not bound by rules of evidence or process as seen in criminal or civil proceedings" and that legal counsel, while potentially beneficial, "may inadvertently pose more harm to the student than benefit" if the process's developmental purpose is not considered. Recording is addressed only at the level of the hearing committee's own record: it "shall make a record of the hearing," which "shall include a verbatim record of the testimony, which may be a sound recording." Sources: Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14, ss. 14.08(3)(a) and (c) (Register November 2024 No. 827; retrieved Oct 3, 2026), and UW-Eau Claire's own How the Dean of Students Office Supports Students page.

What follows on the record

No transcript notation and no records-retention period is stated in UWS 14 itself. What is stated: a lesser, instructor-level "written reprimand presented only to the student" is not filed, while a more serious written reprimand imposed after an investigating officer's finding is placed in the student's disciplinary file. "Suspension or expulsion shall be systemwide in effect" across the Universities of Wisconsin, and a suspended or expelled student may not enroll elsewhere in the system until the suspension expires or a year has passed. Source: UWS 14, ss. 14.04(1)(b), (h) and 14.12.

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

UW-Eau Claire's own "Blugold Code" states the governing relationship directly (retrieved Oct 3, 2026): "Chapter UWS 14 (Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures) and Chapter UWS 17 (Student Non-academic Disciplinary Procedures) have been incorporated into the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Code either by adapting or inserting verbatim the language of these statutes... In the event of conflict between this Code and either Chapter UWS 14 or Chapter UWS 17, the Chapters will supersede this Code." The Dean of Students Office "maintains and updates the Blugold Code." Source: Policies: Blugold Student Conduct Code — UW-Eau Claire Knowledge Base. UWS 14 itself (Register November 2024 No. 827) states the standard of proof:

Sources: Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14, Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures, ss. 14.05, 14.06, 14.08(3)(e), 14.09 and 14.10, and UW-Eau Claire's own How the Dean of Students Office Supports Students page. What these quotations mean for any particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-10-03 — Page created. Cold build; no prior CANDIDATES.md or procedure-facts.json research to reuse. FOURTH UW SYSTEM (UNIVERSITIES OF WISCONSIN) BUILD: reused rather than re-derived the systemwide finding established at uwgb, uww and uwlax (all 2026-09-30/2026-10-02) — no UW-System-wide AI-detection policy exists, and Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14 governs the hearing process, standard of proof, advisor right, recording, appeal and records identically across every Universities of Wisconsin campus; each campus's own AI-detection status and campus AI policy still need their own check. Section 02's UWS 14 quotations (standard of proof, hearing record, appeal to the chancellor and the Board of Regents, sanction-filing and systemwide-suspension rules) are the same provisions quoted at uwgb, uww and uwlax, re-verified against the same Register November 2024 No. 827 PDF text rather than carried on trust (the apostrophe-as-bracket extraction artifact at s. 14.04(1)(h), "student[s disciplinary file," recurs here and is presented as paraphrase rather than a direct quotation at that one clause, consistent with the three prior UW builds). Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin AI writing indicator, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and category sweep (the LTS knowledge base, the CETL and Dean of Students pages, and the AI Best Practices hub) found Turnitin's AI detection score confirmed enabled since the end of Fall 2023, documented first-party in a knowledge-base article last updated Jul 6, 2026, with a separate, jointly LTS/CETL-authored instructor guidance document (last updated Mar 27, 2026) stating the detection results are not sole evidence and setting a 90%+ confidence-threshold practice. NOT DISQUALIFIED: documented in use with an explicit non-reliance rule and a recommendation to use Turnitin ("Use Turnitin when possible, as it has appropriate data privacy protections"), not disabled or recommended against. TWO STALE URLS CAUGHT BEFORE CAPTURE: the Dean of Students' own former "dos-faculty/academic-misconduct" and "what-we-do" page addresses both now redirect (HTTP 200 after redirect) to current landing pages rather than serving the original content directly; the current destination, "How the Dean of Students Office Supports Students," is used and linked instead, and its own current URL is what is captured. CAMPUS-SPECIFIC VALUE ADDED: unlike UWS 14's generic "representative of his or her choice," UW-Eau Claire's own Dean of Students page names the "Student Misconduct Hearing Committee" (students and faculty members), states the 10-day scheduling and appeal windows in its own words, and its own Attorney Guide to the Student Conduct Process adds a caution specific to legal counsel ("may inadvertently pose more harm to the student than benefit") not found in UWS 14 itself — used as additional campus color in the accompaniment row rather than as a substitute for UWS 14's actual right. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY CHECKED AND NOT FOUND, TRAP AVOIDED: the Dean of Students Office page for prospective students self-describes as "advocating for the needs of all students," and its student-facing page offers "advocates" and "general advice" for students' personal and academic problems, but this is the same office that receives academic-misconduct complaints, convenes the Student Misconduct Hearing Committee, and maintains the Blugold Code — it is UWS 14's "student affairs officer" for this campus, the party administering the process, not an independent party representing an accused student, so it is not presented as an ombuds or student advocate here and "None located" is used instead. No office titled "ombudsperson" was found anywhere on uwec.edu. A separate first-party resource, "Law for Learners" (a Student Senate/Student Services Commission program connecting students with outside attorneys for "free, confidential legal help"), was also found and is deliberately NOT used to fill the ombuds/advocacy row: it is a general civil-legal-aid referral service, not an institutional ombudsperson or an office dedicated to academic-integrity advocacy, and the institution does not describe it in those terms; it is noted here rather than chased further. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-03).

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