Disciplinary regulations for male and female students
First: General Provisions: Article one: The provisions of this regulation concern the following: 1- Controlling the behavior of male and female students inside the university or in any of its facilities. 2- Disciplining the violating students and treating their behavior using educational methods. 3- Approving disciplinary penalties for male and female students who violate the rules and regulations in force at the university.
second subject: The following terms, wherever mentioned in this regulation, denote the meanings written in front of each of them as follows: 1- University: Salman bin Abdulaziz University. 2- Male and female students: All male and female students enrolled in the university, regardless of their educational levels or nationalities. 3- The Committee: The Student Disciplinary Committee. 4- Violation: Anything that violates the rules, regulations and instructions of the university. 5- Punishment: It is the disciplinary penalty stipulated in this regulation.
Article Three: All male and female students registered at the university, enrolled in training programs and courses, of whatever type and level, and postgraduate students, are subject to this regulation, without prejudice to the provisions contained in the basic regulations of Saudi universities.
Fourth Article: The authority responsible for implementing and following up on the provisions of this regulation is the Deanship of Student Affairs, in cooperation with the relevant authorities at the university.
Article Five: Excluded from the application of the penalties stipulated in this regulation: Violations committed by a male or female student outside the university, and do not affect the university, one of its employees, or its various systems.
Second: Formation, functions and work of disciplinary committees:
Sixth Article: Disciplinary committees are formed as follows: A- A permanent committee is formed to discipline students at the university for a period of two academic years by a decision of His Excellency the President of the University based on a nomination from the Vice Dean for Educational and Academic Affairs, provided that the Dean of Student Affairs is its head. B - A permanent committee is formed to discipline female students for a period of two academic years, nominated by the head of the permanent committee to discipline students, and a decision is issued by the university president.
Article Seven:
A- Disciplinary committees shall be formed in the faculties by a decision of the dean of the faculty and shall be as follows:
1- The dean of the college or one of the vice presidents.
2- Two faculty members.
3- Head of the department to which the violating student belongs. B- The committee submits the minutes of its meetings and the recommendations contained therein to the permanent committee for disciplinary action against male/female students for approval or amendment of its recommendations.
Article Eight: The Standing Committee for Disciplining Students looks into the violations referred to it by His Excellency the Rector of the University, or by one of the disciplinary committees in colleges and institutes, or by one of the supporting deanships or departments in the university.
Article Nine: The Disciplinary Committee meets when necessary at the invitation of its chairperson, and its meeting is not statutory unless attended by two thirds of the members.
Article 10: The Permanent Disciplinary Committee exercises its powers stipulated in these regulations and must investigate directly with the student the violation attributed to him if the case requires it
. Article eleven: The penalty imposed by the committee on the violator must be one of the penalties stipulated in section (fourth) of these regulations, and the committee has the power to reduce the penalty for the student if it deems interest in that.
Third: Violations requiring discipline: Article 12: Every violation of the provisions of Sharia and its etiquette issued by the student inside the university or in any of its various facilities, requires discipline, including: 1- Every act or statement that touches the religion. 2- Every act or statement that touches honor and dignity, offends modesty, or violates good conduct and public morals. 3- Committing any act that contradicts the characteristics of public behavior, such as imitating the opposite sex, lengthening nails, or doing inappropriate haircuts, and not adhering to the appropriate modest Islamic dress or uniform approved by the university.
Article Thirteen: Every violation issued by the student to the university’s rules, regulations and applicable instructions requires discipline, including: 1- Acts that directly or indirectly interfere with the conduct of lectures, courses and programs of activities at the university or in the housing units for male or female students or the various means of transportation and all other university facilities. 2- Forging official documents and papers issued by or outside the university, or deliberately destroying all or some of their contents. 3- Entering the male or female student as a substitute for them in the test or entering them instead of others. 4- Cheating in the test or attempting to cheat, as well as cheating in reports, assignments, graduation projects, or other academic work assigned to the student. 5- Violation of the test system and the required calm in it.
6- Any deliberate destruction or attempt to damage the university’s facilities, facilities, equipment, laboratories, libraries, property, etc., or any change or damage to the dormitory’s furniture or contents, or defacement of property, or writing on walls, and the like. 7- Smoking inside the university buildings and facilities.
Article 14: Every act committed by a male or female student that may cause corruption or violation of public order, or assault on a person inside the university requires discipline, including: 1- Assault, verbally or in deed, the university’s employees, and the employees of companies and institutions operating or investing in the university, insulting them, assaulting, damaging or stealing their money or property, and so on. 2- Bringing or using mobile devices equipped with a camera inside the university’s female students’ headquarters, housing units or photographic devices, as well as misusing them at the university’s male students’ headquarters and university dormitories. 3- Acquisition of equipment, films, pictures, tapes, newspapers or magazines that contain what is contrary to Islamic morals and ethics inside the university and its facilities, including university housing.
4-- Carrying a firearm or white weapon or keeping inflammable or explosive materials and the like inside the university and its facilities. 5- Every organization of committees, conferences, associations, issuing and distributing pamphlets, newspapers or magazines, collecting funds or signatures in violation of the regulations, as well as reporting incorrect information or news to newspapers, magazines or other media before obtaining a prior license from the competent authorities at the university.
Fourth: Disciplinary penalties: Article fifteen: The penalties that the committee has the right to apply to the student are as follows: 1- Oral or written warning, and signing a pledge of non-repetition. 2- A written warning. 3- Temporary deprivation of some services and privileges provided to male and female students, activities, trips, visits, and the like, for a period not exceeding two semesters. 4- Deprivation of residence in the university residence for a period of one semester or more.
5- Denial of entry to the test in one or more courses in one semester. 6- Canceling the student's exam in no more than three courses and considering him or her failing in them. 7- Suspension from studies for one semester with suspension of the stipend. 8- Suspension of study for two semesters, with suspension of the stipend. 9- Delaying the violating student's graduation for one semester. 10- Final semester from the university.
Article sixteen: The university has the right to charge the male or female student the value of what was destroyed in addition to the cost of repair and installation and the financial consequences of that.
Article seventeen: In applying the penalties set forth in Article 15, it should be taken into account that they are gradual, and that the penalty is commensurate with the degree of violation, taking into account the precedents, circumstances and circumstances, and that the penalties applied to violating students and violating students do not exceed three penalties for one violation, and the committee may recommend that the period of punishment not be calculated within the student’s academic period or requesting.
Article 18: The President of the University or his representative has the right to impose any of the penalties stipulated in Article 15, whenever the case of the offender or violation requires privacy, confidentiality or exceptional circumstances
. Article 19: The penalty shall not be imposed until after the student has been investigated in writing and his statements have been heard regarding what was attributed to him, and his right to make his statements shall forfeit in the event of his failure to appear for two specific dates for the interview that he had been notified of in advance, unless he had an acceptable excuse, and then the penalty was imposed on him in absentia and by the committee The permanent sufficiency with what was stated by the concerned committee and the imposition of the penalty without the presence of the male or female student.
Article 20: A male or female student is not exempted from punishment on the grounds that he is not aware of the university’s rules and regulations and the instructions issued by it. The Deanship of Student Affairs must publish the provisions of these regulations and announce them by all available means.
Article twenty-one: The final dismissal from the university results in not allowing the male or female student to take exams or re-enroll him in any of the university’s colleges or institutes. The decision is communicated to the concerned authorities in the university and outside it within an appropriate period for its implementation that does not exceed thirty days from its issuance.
Article 22: The body that imposes the penalty on the violator or violation according to what is stipulated in Article 15, must inform the Chairman of the Permanent Committee for Student Disciplinary and notify the Deanship of Admission and Registration Affairs and the concerned authorities with a copy of its decision, within a period not exceeding two weeks from the date of the decision’s issuance, in order to implement it and inform the student by the decision of the committee. Fifth: Final Provisions:
Article 23: Disciplinary committees in colleges and others are entrusted with carrying out the necessary procedures entrusted to them, such as investigations, reviewing the necessary papers and documents, keeping them, and following up on the implementation of disciplinary decisions
Article 24: The Chairman of the Permanent Disciplinary Committee submits the minutes of the committee to His Excellency the President of the University for approval, and then returns them to the Permanent Committee for Student Disciplinary to notify the relevant authorities to implement the decisions.
Article 25: The Chairperson of the Standing Committee for Disciplining Female Students shall submit the minutes of the Committee to the Chairman of the Standing Committee, attached to the investigation files, for submission to the President of the University for approval.
Article 26: The chairperson of the Standing Committee may resubmit the cases of female students to the Standing Committee for Disciplining Students, either to support or veto the decisions of the Standing Committee for the Disciplinary of Female Students.
Article 27: Deans, heads of departments, faculty members, and directors of departments at the university are responsible for controlling male and female students in accordance with the university’s regulations, and when a violation occurs within the university and its facilities, a report is issued and the matter is referred to the authorized person.
Article 28: Decisions issued by the competent authorities to impose penalties shall be considered effective after the approval of the University Rector. The student has the right to appeal the decision issued against him to the Rector of the University within fourteen days from the date he was notified of the decision. .
Article 29: 1- Decisions issued regarding disciplinary sanctions shall be kept in the student’s file. 2- The body that issued the penalty may announce it in the university faculties by lettering in the letters of the student’s name within two weeks from the date of its issuance, and the college has the right to inform the guardian whenever the need arises.
Article 30: This regulation shall be effective as of the date of its approval by the University Council, and all that contradicts it with what was previously issued in this regard shall be cancelled.