University of Wisconsin-Stout.

What Wisconsin Administrative Code UWS 14 and UW-Stout'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) (retrieved Oct 19, 2026).

What follows on the record

No transcript notation and no records-retention period is stated in UWS 14 itself or on UW-Stout's own academic-misconduct pages. What is stated: "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)(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-Stout's own Academic Misconduct and Academic Investigation Process pages (retrieved Oct 19, 2026; no on-page revision date) state that academic misconduct is governed by "The University of Wisconsin System Administrative Code, UWS Ch 14," and that "Academic misconduct allegations are typically investigated by the course instructor although University Investigating Officers may fill this role if necessary." If the instructor finds misconduct, the student receives "a letter detailing the evidence, recommended sanction and rights to due process." A hearing before the Hearing Committee is automatic for "University probation, suspension or expulsion… unless the student waives their right to the hearing in writing"; for lesser sanctions, "the accused student has 10 days from receipt of electronic notification or written letter in which to contact the Dean of Students Office and request a hearing." A linked "Procedure Flow Chart," "Process for Students," and "Process for Faculty" document are hosted as SharePoint files that render as scanned page images rather than extractable text; listed by title and link only, nothing quoted from them.

UWS 14 itself states the standard of proof:

On appeal: where the sanction is suspension or expulsion, "the student may appeal to the chancellor to review the decision of the hearing committee on the record," and the chancellor must sustain the committee's decision unless the evidence does not support it, established procedures were not followed with material prejudice to the student, or the decision rested on a legally proscribed factor. Beyond the chancellor, "the Board of Regents may, at its discretion, grant a review upon the record." Source: Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter UWS 14, Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures, ss. 14.07(8), 14.08(3)(e), and 14.09–14.10, and UW-Stout's Academic Investigation Process page. 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

2026-10-19 — Page created. Priority A tranche 4, entry 279. UW System campus; the system-level detection question was answered at the first UW System build (entry 185, uwgb, 2026-09-30): no UW-System-wide detection policy exists, and each campus's own AI-related pages still need their own check, which this entry performs for UW-Stout. UWS 14's hearing-procedure, accompaniment, evidentiary-standard, and systemwide-sanction provisions are reused from the already-verified citations on uwplatt.html (built 2026-10-18) rather than rediscovered, per house practice for a systemwide statute; independently re-verified this date by fetching Chapter UWS 14 directly and confirming the clear-and-convincing/preponderance language, the accompaniment and verbatim-record language, and the systemwide-effect language all read exactly as previously quoted. Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin and its AI writing detector specifically, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) across uwstout.edu and kb.uwstout.edu found only Turnitin, confirmed first-party as a plagiarism checker only ("Turnitin: Enabling Turnitin for Submissions," Doc ID 96382, Updated 2024-12-11) with no AI-writing feature named. CATEGORY SWEEP: the library's Generative AI guide (Last Updated Oct 16, 2026), the AI Literacy Framework, and two further IT knowledge-base AI articles (Generative AI Software, Doc ID 133980; M365 Copilot, Doc ID 160101) all cover generative-AI usage or approved productivity tools, not detection. A UW-Stout faculty-authored op-ed syndicated from The Conversation/Fortune, discussing a national survey of K-12 educators' views on "AI-detection tools," was found and excluded as general research commentary rather than a first-party UW-Stout statement about its own practice. DISQUALIFICATION CHECK: not disqualified — the finding is an absence of any documented AI-text detector, not a withdrawal of one. PROCESS: UW-Stout's own Academic Misconduct and Academic Investigation Process pages add local detail beyond UWS 14 itself — instructor-led investigation in the first instance, a 10-day window to request a hearing for sanctions less than probation, and an automatic hearing for probation/suspension/expulsion absent a written waiver. Three SharePoint-hosted documents (a procedure flow chart and "Process for Students"/"Process for Faculty" guides) render as scanned page images with no extractable text; listed by title and link only, nothing quoted. A fourth SharePoint link ("View Examples," on personal OneDrive) redirected to a Microsoft sign-in page on a direct visit — AUTHENTICATION-GATED, the same pattern recorded on several other pages in this collection; listed by title and link only. OFFICE: Dean of Students, 130 Bowman Hall, 715-232-1181, dean_of_students@uwstout.edu, confirmed on two of the office's own pages. OMBUDS: a bounded sweep (site search for "ombuds" and "student advocacy," plus the Dean of Students pages already in hand) surfaced the Office of Student Opportunity & Excellence; its own page describes a student community/belonging group ("Join the page," officers, members, recurring social events) promoting "student advocacy, success, and access to resources" in a retention sense, with no statement about accompanying a student through an academic-misconduct case, so it is not presented here as that kind of resource; no other ombuds or case-advocacy office was located. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-19).

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