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
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.
Text (772) 237-0555 for tight deadlines.