I. General Discipline

Article 1 These rules are made for maintaining a normal teaching and living order, building school environment, guaranteeing international students’ welfare and promoting their all-round development.

Article 2 These rules are applicable to the full-time international students.

II. Disciplinary Punishments and Their Application

Article 3 International students who violate laws, rules or disciplines, are to receive criticism or disciplinary punishment according to their attitude.

Article 4 Disciplinary punishment is classified into “Warning”, “Serious warning”, “Record demerit”, “Academic probation”, “Expelled”.

Article 5 Punishment can be alleviated for the following persons:

For those who admit their violating behaviors and give repentance with good attitude in time.

For those who expose others’ violating behaviors and give school assistance.

For those who make clear contributions.

For those who usually perform well and make the first violating behavior and can make up for the loss with a strong promising.

For those who are intimidated or induced to make the violating behaviors. 

For those who cut off violating behaviors and prevent the bad result positively.

Article 6 International students given “Warning” or higher-level punishment are deprived of the privilege of obtaining scholarship or other honors.

III. Violating Behaviors and Punishments

Article 7 Those who violating Chinese laws and rules or other judicial stipulations are given the following punishment respectively:

Those international students who violate criminal law and are imposed criminal responsibility are to “expelled”.

Those international students who are imposed custody by public security organs would be “expelled”.

Those international students who are registered by judicial organs with obvious criminal fact but are free of punishment and prosecution, are to be given “Academic probation”.

 Those international students who violate Regulations on Administrative Penalties for Public Security are imposed “warning” or penalty by public security organs, are given “warning” or “serious warning” if the behavior is light, and are given “record demerit” or “Academic probation” if the behavior is serious.

Article 8 Disordering the teaching, working or living, destroying the public order in classroom, canteen room, dormitory, auditorium, stadium or others; disobeying even offending the administrator; breaking bottles on some of a purpose; making noise or rubbish in public place. Punishment will be given on the level of the above violating behaviors.

i. “Warning” or “serious warning” is given when the behavior is light.

ii. “Record demerit” or “Academic probation” is given when the behavior is worse and has got worse effects.

iii. “Expelled” is given when the behavior is serious and has got worst effects.

Article 9 “Warning” or “serious warning” is given to those who on purpose destroy announcements, bulletins or other propagandas; “expelled” is given to those who make illegal organizations, parades, assembly; disseminate illegal leaflets; and destroy public order. If the behavior is serious, the public security organ is to be engaged in.

Article 10 Those who are engaged in burglary, deception, plunder, racketeering, or illegal occupation must make up for the loss, and are given the following punishments:

i. “Record demerit” or above is given to those in the case 500 RMB less

ii. “Expelled” is given to those who never disobey in the case of above 500 RMB.

iii. “Expelled” is given to those who have unlocked the door to make burglary.

iv. “Serious warning” is given to those who buy thieveries. Thieveries are confiscated.

v. “Academic probation” is given to those who provide convenience and shield to burglary.

vi. The head of the criminal group is given a more serious punishment until “expelled” is applicable

vii. “Academic probation” is given to those who steal cachet, secret document, and archives if no serious effect occurs; if not, “expelled” is applicable.

viii. Forging &altering credentials or bluffing

a) “Serious warning” is given when the crime is abortive.

b) “Record demerit” is given when the crime is solid.

Article 11 As to the behaviors like planning a fight, fighting or involved in that or providing tools for a fighting::

I. Organizer

i. “Record demerit” is given to those who instigate others to fight if no aftereffect occurs.

ii. “Academic probation” is given to those who instigate others to fight if aftereffect occurs.

iii. “Expelled” is given to those who cause bad effects.

II. “Warning” & “serious warning” is given to those who instigate others but fail at last. “Record demerit” or above punishment is given when fight occurs but without serious effect.

III. Peace breaker

i. “Warning” is given to those who only say insulting words and lead to the fight.

ii. “Serious warning” is given to those who fight not hurt other person.

iii. “Record demerit” or “Academic probation” is given to those who hurt others to some extent.

iv. “Expelled” is given to those who hurt others seriously.

IV. Of participators

i. “Warning” is given to those participators.

ii. “Serious warning” is given to those who fight but not hurt others.

iii. hurt others to some extent.

iv. “Expelled” is given to those who hurt others seriously.

v. “Serious warning” is given to those who help one of the participators with an excuse of reconciling

Article 12 Those who participate in gambling or provide conditions for gambling in any form shall be given the following punishments according to the seriousness of the case and their attitude of admitting their mistakes, in addition to confiscating gambling funds and instruments:

i. “Serious warning” is given to those who gamble for the first time.

ii. “Serious warning” is given to those who know but hide the truth.

iii. “Academic probation” or above is given to those who gamble repeatedly.

iv. “Expelled” is given to those who gamble and cause other bad effects.

v. “Expelled” is given to those who gamble in the dorms with a large amount of money.

More serious punishment even “expelled” is given to those who organize gambling.

Article 13 International student who is absent without permission or doesn’t return to the University on time, or leaves school without permission before classes are officially over, he/she shall be subjected to the following punishments (See it in “Regulations on International students’ Class Attendance”)

Article 14 “Academic probation” is given to those who has Violating behavior during examinations

Article 15 Of violating behaviors in dorms

i. “Warning” is given to those who use electric utensils which may cause danger in dorms, and don’t obey the instructions. Students can only use the household appliances provided by NTVU (if you have any special needs, please submit to a written application for permission).

ii. “Warning” ，“serious warning” or “record demerit” is given to those who make noise during rest time, and don’t obey the instructions.

iii. “Record demerit” is given to those who accommodate the opposite sex for the first time. “Expelled” is given when that happens to the same person twice or more. “Warning” is given to international students in the same dorm if not prevent that.

iv. “Serious warning” with compensation is given to those who cause fire through smoking or candle. If bad effect occurs, “Academic probation” or above is given.

v. “Serious warning” or “record demerit” is given to those who destroy fire-control equipment or remove electric wires. If bad effect occurs, “Academic probation” or above is given.

Article 16 “Warning” or “serious warning” is given to those don’t accommodate in the dorm without permission. “serious warning” and a returning order is given to those who rent outside.  

Article 17 Of drink control

i. “Warning” or “serious warning” is given to those who drink in the school and don’t give up after instruction.

ii. “Serious warning” or above is given to those who disorder the public after drink

Article 18 Any international students who take or trafficking drugs or seduce others to take drugs shall be expelled from school.

Article 19 Any international students who are in violation of regulations concerning the control of dangerous objects such as explosives, deadly poisons, combustibles and radioactive elements or hide or use above objects or fire crack works, items and dump glass bottles, water bags or burning sticks hence inciting social disturbances and imperiling public security shall be given serious warning or recording demerit. They shall be Academic probation according to the results.

Article 20 Any international students in violations of regulations through computer and network shall be given punishment as follows:

I. International students who make use of computer information network to produce, copy, and public or spread any contents in the following list shall be given warning or more serious punishment according the situation.

a) Endangering the national security, revealing state secrets, overthrowing sovereign of the state, or breaching the unit of the state.

b) Altering on purpose the computer data base information of the state, departments and corporations.

c) Doing harm to the honor and the interests of our country and group.

d) Agitating racial hate and racial discrimination and breaching racial unit in our country.

e) Breaking the religious policy of our country and preaching evil religion and superstition.

f) Bruiting rumors, disturbing the order of school and society, and destroying social stability.

g) Propagating anything of pornography, gamble, violence, homicide or terror, and instigating crime.

h) Insulting or defaming others, or infringing legitimate rights and interests of others.

i) Any other contents prohibited by laws and administrative regulations of our country.

International students who program, input and spread virus on purpose, hence imperiling computer information system and network system and causing any results shall be given serious warning or more serious punishment according to the consequence.

International students who take unlawfully relevant document address of other people and cause bas results shall be punished severely in accordance with the first two items of Article 29.

International students who violate national administrative stipulations on computer network shall receive warning or more serious punishment.

Article 21 International students who receive (or watch), duplicate (or produce), spread, sale or rent out literatures inkling periodical, books, videotapes, cassettes and discs, which embody pornography, superstition, and illegal shall be given punishment as follows according to the situation:

i. Warning or serious warning for international students who receive ( or watch) video and audio products containing pornography, superstition and evil religion or read books of that kind;

ii. “Recording demerit” or “Academic probation” in school for international students who duplicate and spread documents like that;

iii. “Academic probation” in school or more serious punishments for international students who rent out or sale documents of that kind.

Article 22 Such punishments shall be given to international students damaging public properties and facilities or personal wealth and things:

i. International students who cut, scribble or pastern anything on buildings, classroom and public facilities, apparatus and signs in the laboratory without approval and ignore warning and persuasion shall receive warning or serious warning depending on the situation. In addition, they shall be ordered to clean those places within the limited time.

ii. International students who break the campus facilities, building infrastructure or public equipment and apparatus in classrooms and labs shall be given serious warning or record demerit in addition to compensation for losses.

iii. International students who damage public facilities on purpose and cause severe consequences shall compensate for the losses and be Academic probation. If there are any especially bad behaviors or severe consequences, expulsion from academic status shall be given.

iv. International students who damage personal wealth of other people on purpose shall compensate for the losses if the course is clear. Warning or serious warning shall be given if the adverse effects are minor; recording demerit or more serious punishments shall be given it the consequences are serious.

v. Seniors who damage public properties before leaving school shall get the concrete formalities delayed and shall be punished according to these Regulations.

Article 23 International students who insult or be harmful to others shall receive punishments as follows:

1. Serious warning or more serious punishment shall be given to those who insult, defame, accuse falsely, frame or threaten other people but when circumstances are not serious enough for criminal punishment.

2. Serious warning or more serious punishment shall be given to those who do harm to the free communication of others but criminal responsibility is not investigated.

Article 24 International students who assail females with obscenities or deceit females with love as disguise shall be given a record demerit or more serious punishments according to situation when circumstances are not serious enough for criminal punishment.

Article 25 Other violators shall be punished according to the situation as follows:

i. International students who illegally control other people or search the body or residence of others but when circumstances are not serious enough for criminal punishment shall receive serious warning or more serious punishments.

ii. International students who endanger other people’s safe or interfere the lives of others through writing letters of intimidation, harassing phones or SMS messages of bad contents shall be given serious warning or more serious punishments.

iii. International students who break operation regulations during teaching classes, experiments, practice or novitiate and cause accidents shall be given warning or more serious punishments.

iv. International students who deliberately ignore the administration or leave the team without approval during novitiate shall receive serious warning or recording demerit.

v. International students who lend their student ID card and school emblem, or alter or forge credentials to deceit others, organize or harbor dangerous person but not make criminal mistakes shall receive warning or more serious punishments.

vi. International students who attaint library books on purpose, replace brand new books with old ones or borrow books with stolen cards shall be given serious warning or more serious punishments.

vii. International students who hide, scrape or illegally opening another person's postal articles and cause adverse influences or damages shall be given serious warning or more serious punishments in addition to compensation for losses according to the circumstance.

viii. International students who forge the signatures of others shall receive record demerit or more severe punishments in accordance with the gravity of the circumstances.

ix. International students who participate in the activities of evil religions or superstition spoiling the image of international students shall be Academic probation in accordance with the seriousness of the consequences.

x. International students who plagiarize or copy the research findings of others shall be given serious warning if the situation is not serious, and be dismissed the status as international students if the situation is grievous.

IV. The Execution of Punishments and the Appealing Way

Article 26 The examining and approval procedure of the purview of the decision of the punishment on the international students

The steps of the inspection are as follows:

i. The initial affirm of international students’ behaviors of violating rules: the fact of breaking the rules of international students refers to the behaviors of specific person in the administrative scoop of our school. Their behaviors shall be confirmed in accordance with this provision.

ii. Inspections on the behaviors of violating rules of international students: stuffs of concerned departments of school and all-time or part-time teachers in the charge of international students’ affairs have the right to inspect the mistakes made by international students or consign the inspection to institutions which have the right to carry out the functions of management, inspection and authentication within the permission of our state laws and policies.

a) Inquiring the participators;

b) Inquiring the attester; and the contents of inspections into the violations of regulations of international students shall be in written form with the signature and finger print of the person inquired after he\she has checked the record;

c) Collecting the paper evidence or material evidence;

d) Listening to the citation and explication of the international student or his\her attorney which shall be well recorded on paper before the punishing decision has been made; in the end, the international student to be punished or his\her attorney should sign the record, otherwise declaration shall be added;  

iii. Where international students are given warning or serious warning, SICE shall propose it to the NTVU authority, and document of specific disposal and an announcement would be made.

iv. Where international students receive “recording demerit” or are kept in school but under “Academic probation”, SICE should make proposal of disposal in the office conference and submit it to the chief school authorities for approval and ratification and hence an announcement. The document should be sent to the Educational Department of Jiangsu Province to be archived.

v. Where international students receive expulsion from academic status, proposal of disposal should be made by SICE in the office conference, which should be submitted by the chief school authorities to the president’s conference for approval, and then be reported to the Educational Department of Jiangsu Province to be archived. The embassy of the country where the international student to be punished come from in our country should be informed.

vi. SICE shall cooperate with other departments concerned to deal with circumstances as follows:

a) Cooperation with the Department of Security is required where international students violate rules as well as “Regulations on Administrative Penalties for Public Security” or are suspected of crime.

b) Cooperation with the Department of Public Security is required where international students commit crime.

vii. When warning, serious warning or recording demerit is given, SICE will announce to other departments after the punishment is decided.

viii. SICE ought to inform the international student and the parents of the decision of punishment in time after it has been made so as to make the education undergoes well; the documents of the penalty should be archived completely in the school document as well as in personal document.  

Article 27 Documents of punishment on international students who violate regulations need to be submitted. They include:

i. Registration form of punishment on international students of NTVU;

ii. Documents of violation fact of relevant certificate material;

iii. Documents of affirmation and self-criticism of the international students in violation of regulations.

Article 28 Afterward treatment

i. The international student given punishment can put forward the application to the Scholl of International Education for removing the punishment according to his/her remedial behaviors. The Scholl of International Education shall convene with the Department of Teaching Affairs and Department of Security to make assessment and decide whether the punishment will be concealed or bated. The assessment material should be archived in the school documents.

ii. Scholl of International Education is responsible to carry out the relevant education and consolidation, and periodic inspection.

iii. The term of “Academic probation” is generally 1 year. During this period, international students who have outstanding behaviors can get the “Academic probation” terminated ahead of schedule, but no shorter than 6 months; international students who don not alter their bad behaviors or receive punishment again shall get the term prolonged or expulsion of academic status; if the term is not prolonged when it expires, it can be regarded as concealed.

iv. If international students are kept under “Academic probation” in their senior year, they shall receive certification for completing courses instead of diploma.

v. The international students who receive repulsion from academic status will get study proofs and shall leave the school in the limited time.

V. Supplementary Provisions

Article 29 Necessary punishments shall be given to international students whose violations are not listed in these Regulations referring similar provisions in these Regulations. If there are no references, disposals can be made according to the jurisdiction for punishment.

Article 30 Cases not explained in these Regulations but stipulated before by the school shall be disposed in accordance with the preceding stipulations; cases stipulated both in these Regulations and preceding ones shall be disposed according to the latest ones. If any conflicts between these Regulation and preceding ones occurs, the latest ones should be adopted.

Article 31 In numerical phrase containing the words “or more serious punishments” used in these Regulations, the indicated punishments are included.

Article 32 NTVU is responsible for the explication of these Regulations.