Press & Media Kit
Press resources for journalists covering education and student conduct
AdvocatED works with journalists covering academic misconduct, AI in education, Title IX, K-12 discipline, and the student-side economics of school disciplinary processes. We respond to media inquiries within one business day and can speak on background or on record.
About AdvocatED
AdvocatED is a U.S. education-advising service that represents and prepares students and families navigating academic-integrity, conduct, Title IX, dismissal, and K-12 special-education matters inside their institution's own process. We are not a law firm.
The service operates nationwide with deep institution-specific knowledge across hundreds of U.S. colleges, universities, and professional programs. Our advisors include an ATIXA-certified Title IX Hearing Advisor.
Areas of Expertise
AI Detection & ChatGPT Accusations
Documented false-positive rates of Turnitin AI, GPTZero, and Copyleaks; how universities are adjudicating AI cases; the disparate impact on ESL students; what defenses are working in 2026.
Title IX Procedure & Compliance
Live-hearing requirements, cross-examination mechanics, the practical effect of recent regulatory changes, where institutions are getting compliance wrong, and how respondents and complainants navigate the process.
Academic Misconduct & Honor Codes
Differences between honor-code and conduct-code adjudication; UVA's single-sanction system; trends in plagiarism and integrity findings; how AI tools have rewritten policy enforcement.
Medical, Nursing & Health-Profession Dismissals
Committee-driven dismissal processes (CASPP, APC), professionalism charges, clinical-rotation failures, GME residency dismissals, and the ACGME-policy backdrop.
K-12 Discipline & Special Education
Manifestation determinations under IDEA, Section 504 protections, DAEP placements, suspension/expulsion appeals, and the parent-side procedural levers.
Education Advisor vs. Attorney Economics
Why most student-conduct matters do not benefit from legal representation; cost structures for both; when families overspend on attorneys for matters that schools handle internally.
Sample Story Angles
- →How AI detection tools are reshaping academic integrity policy and creating documented false-positive harms.
- →Why students at honor-code schools (UVA, Duke, Vanderbilt, Georgetown) face fundamentally different procedural risks than at conduct-code schools.
- →The growing gap between Title IX regulatory updates and how institutions actually conduct hearings.
- →Medical-school dismissals: how committee composition and professionalism-based charges create career-ending risk with limited procedural protection.
- →K-12 discipline disparities and how parents navigate manifestation-determination requirements for students with IEPs.
- →The economics of student conduct: why families pay $20k-$30k to attorneys for matters an education advisor can handle for a fraction.
- →What recent campus AI-cheating panic is doing to ESL and international students under existing detection-tool bias.
- →How institutional policy on transcript notations (UCLA's 50-year dismissal notation, others) creates downstream career consequences far exceeding the academic sanction.
Credentials & Scope
- ✓ATIXA Title IX Hearing Advisor Certification
- ✓Hundreds of student-conduct, Title IX, academic-integrity, and dismissal matters advised across U.S. higher education
- ✓School-specific guides for 538 U.S. colleges, universities, and professional programs, including 115+ researched in depth from primary-source policies
- ✓K-12 special education advocacy under IDEA and Section 504
Recent Media
As seen on CBS News
Title IX expert explains reporting process amid Cornell rape investigation
Rachel Laubis joined CBS News to explain how the sexual assault reporting process works under Title IX, and what a university's obligations are once a report is made, in the context of the Jane Doe case at Cornell.
Rachel Laubis, Title IX advisor with AdvocatED, on CBS News's The Daily Report, October 2, 2026. Watch on YouTube.
Source Material
For background research, the following AdvocatED resources are referenced most often by reporters working on these topics:
- Topic Library Index — every guide organized by situation.
- Glossary of Education-Discipline Terms — defined references for COAM, OSACR, IDEA, Title IX, single sanction, manifestation determination, and more.
- Side-by-Side Comparisons — short structured comparisons (advisor vs. attorney, suspension vs. expulsion, IEP vs. 504, others).
- School Directory covers 538 U.S. colleges and universities, with 115+ researched in depth from primary-source policies.
Press Inquiries
Email support@getAdvocatED.com with the subject line "Press inquiry" for fastest routing.