University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
- Detection status
- Turnitin's AI detection feature is offered, but the teaching center's own guidance calls it "not reliable" and says it "can't be used as a definitive AI detector or as sole evidence of misconduct"
- Office in these sources
- Office of the Dean of Students · Old Main, Room 212, 2100 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481 · 715-346-2611 · dos@uwsp.edu
- Ombuds or advocacy office
- None located on the institution's own pages in this review.
- Sources last checked
- Oct 12, 2026
- This record
- Assembled from 6 linked documents on 3 hosts · change log below: 1 dated entry, Oct 12, 2026 · human review confirmed Oct 12, 2026 · the change record across every page · the collection in numbers
Reproduced from the institution's own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.
UWSP's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — course syllabi and unit-level AI policies also apply (UWSP requires each unit to set its own), and the Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CITL) guidance quoted in section 01 is written for instructors, not for students. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
Turnitin's AI detection is offered, with its own reliability flagged as limited
UWSP's Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CITL) states (page dated Aug 31, 2026; retrieved Oct 12, 2026):
Source: AI Policies and Use Considerations — CITL, "Dealing with Academic Misconduct associated with AI use." The same page directs instructors who suspect AI-related misconduct to "follow the approved process for handling suspected academic misconduct" — the Dean of Students process described in section 02 below — rather than treating a Turnitin score as conclusive.
Separately, UWSP's own Quality Course Design guidance confirms Turnitin's base deployment: "Turnitin, an originality checker that can be activated in Canvas Assignment settings, supports plagiarism detection. At UWSP, turitin.com is integrated with Canvas, our online learning platform." Source: Academic Integrity — Quality Course Design (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026). UWSP's own handbook separately requires that "[g]enerative AI policies should be added to course syllabi and discussed with students," and that "the use of generative AI for the completion of graded (summative) coursework… is not allowed at UWSP unless otherwise permitted by an instructor" — a use rule, not a detection statement. Source: 5.10: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Classroom Usage Policy (retrieved Oct 12, 2026).
NOT A DISQUALIFICATION: the feature is documented as offered, with a reliability caution and a non-sole-evidence rule, not disabled or recommended against. 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 Respondus named separately for "online proctoring," distinct from text-based AI detection: UWSP's Quality Course Design page lists "automatic time limits in Canvas Quizzes and online proctoring via Respondus" among exam-integrity tools, with no AI-writing-detection function claimed for it. Category sweep (CITL's teaching-and-learning docs, the UWSP Libraries' Artificial Intelligence research guide, the Dean of Students' academic-misconduct pages, and Quality Course Design) found no other AI-text detector named anywhere in these sources.
This campus follows the Universities of Wisconsin' systemwide Wisconsin Administrative Code, Chapter UWS 14 for its disciplinary procedure, as the first UW System build in this collection (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) established; UWSP's own Dean of Students site confirms this directly, linking out under the heading "UWSP Chapter 14" with the description "The Universities of Wisconsin policy for addressing possible academic misconduct." No UW-System-wide statement on AI detection itself was found; detection status above is sourced to UWSP's own pages.
What the state administrative code and UWSP's own pages say about how cases proceed
- Who may be present
- At a hearing before the academic misconduct hearing committee, the student has "the right to present evidence and witnesses, and to be heard in his or her own behalf, and the right to be accompanied by a representative of his or her choice." The hearing committee "shall make a record of the hearing," including "a verbatim record of the testimony, which may be a sound recording." Source: Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14, ss. 14.08(3)(a) and (c) (Register November 2024 No. 827; retrieved Oct 12, 2026).
- 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 added to the student's disciplinary file, as UWS 14 defines that term. "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.
UWS 14 itself (Register November 2024 No. 827) states the standard of proof:
Source: Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14, Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures, ss. 14.05, 14.06, 14.08(3)(e), and 14.09-14.10. UWSP's own Dean of Students office implements this process locally: "Faculty and teaching Academic Staff manage the academic misconduct process directly, while the Office of the Dean of Students provided technical support and maintains official records." Source: Academic Misconduct & Procedures — Dean of Students (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026). 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 |
|---|---|
| AI Policies and Use Considerations (CITL; detection status, instructor process) | uwsp.edu/center-for-inclusive-teaching-and-learning — AI Policies and Use Considerations (dated Aug 31, 2026; retrieved Oct 12, 2026) |
| Academic Integrity — Quality Course Design (Turnitin and Respondus deployment) | uwsp.edu/quality-course-design — Academic Integrity (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026) |
| 5.10: Generative AI Classroom Usage Policy (campus handbook) | handbook.uwsp.edu — 5.10 Generative AI Classroom Usage Policy (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026) |
| Academic Misconduct & Procedures (Dean of Students; institutional restatement, links UWS 14) | uwsp.edu/dean-of-students — Academic Misconduct & Procedures (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Oct 12, 2026) |
| Wisconsin Administrative Code, Chapter UWS 14 (Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures; quoted for process, standard of proof, advisor, recording, appeal, and records) | docs.legis.wisconsin.gov — UWS 14 |
| Dean of Students (office contact) | uwsp.edu/dean-of-students — Staff Directory · Old Main, Room 212 · 715-346-2611 · dos@uwsp.edu (retrieved Oct 12, 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
2026-10-12 — Page created. Cold build (no prior CANDIDATES.md/procedure-facts research). SECOND UW SYSTEM BUILD: reused the standing finding from the first (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2026-09-30) that Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14 governs the hearing process, standard of proof, advisor right, recording, and appeal path identically across every Universities of Wisconsin institution, and that no UW-System-wide position on AI detection exists — each campus still needs its own detector-status check. UWS 14 (Register November 2024 No. 827) was re-fetched and re-verified this pass rather than copied from the uwgb packet; all quotations traced unchanged. 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 Turnitin's AI detection feature confirmed offered, first-party, by CITL's own "AI Policies and Use Considerations" page, with Respondus named separately and only for online exam proctoring, not text-based AI detection. NOT A DISQUALIFICATION, the buffalo/famu family: the feature is offered, with a reliability caution ("not reliable," "can't be used as a definitive AI detector or as sole evidence of misconduct") rather than disabled or recommended against. Category sweep (CITL's teaching-and-learning docs, including its May 2023 newsletter confirming "Turnitin is available to all instructors at UWSP, as an integration with Canvas"; the UWSP Libraries' Artificial Intelligence research guide; the Dean of Students' academic-misconduct pages; and Quality Course Design) found no other AI-text detector, and no statement disabling or discouraging AI detection as a category. PROCESS SOURCE PREFERENCE, as at uwgb: UWS 14 (the binding state administrative rule, with exact section numbers) is used for verbatim quotations in section 02; the Dean of Students' "Academic Misconduct & Procedures" page is cited as the institutional-implementation source, which UWSP's own site frames by directly linking "UWSP CHAPTER 14" to the state code rather than restating a separate campus version. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY: none located — a search for "ombudsperson" and "ombudsman" at uwsp.edu returned only off-campus results (UW-Madison's own Ombuds Office, unrelated general-purpose ombudsman explainers), confirming no such office exists at UWSP rather than one being merely unadvertised. Office: the Dean of Students is the office UWSP's own pages name throughout for academic-misconduct records and support, distinct from the CITL/IT contact (Sean Ruppert) named only for help enabling Turnitin in a Canvas course — the docket uses the Dean of Students' own published contact. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-12).
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