I was on one of these academic integrity hearing boards as a student representative at Cornell. In my experience the board was strongly in favor of failing stud

I was on one of these academic integrity hearing boards as a student representative at Cornell. In my experience the board was strongly in favor of failing students outright and adding a notation to their academic record. It's not as bad as expelling them from the university. But it's not like it was some softball slap on the wrist either. And the cases we were presiding over were not simple. We had a case where a student started a test early, as the exams were being handed out, but before everyone got a copy, and we took that as a serious violation of academic integrity (this student was not completely failed out of the course.) Our objective was not at all to "mildly scare the students until they Learn Their Lesson and then let them off the hook."