1. General Provisions, Goals, Essential Principals and Sources

1.1 This Code aims to provide the effective academic cooperation between the Administration of the Academy and the Students, that will serve for the educational goals of the Academy, creation the free and equal environment for students to achieve academic success, and the defense of the Academy’s name.

1.2 The acting persons of the conduct regulated by this Code guide with the generally accepted (recognized) standards and principles of human rights, legality and morality.  
 
1.3 The goals of the Code are achieved by voluntary joint efforts, by following the principles of freedom of expression and awareness. Herewith the Administration of the Academy is authorized to implement the observation, request for keeping order, use the coercive and penal actions for the rude disciplinary misconduct.

1.4 The Administration is responsible to ensure the availability of the Academy – Constitutional documents (Orders, Dispositions, Code of Conduct, this Code, etc). that are obligatory to the student, also to provide the appropriate explanations. Exceeding or abusing one’s powers by the  Staff member  may become the background of his/her responsibility.

1.5 The student is authorized to be withdrawn of charge and rehabilitation proceedings in case of his/her wrong punishment. 

2. Obligatory Rules, their Sources

2.1 The administration acts within the rights conferred by the legislation. Obligatory rules are formed in the constitutional documents of the Academy of internal regulation, the violation of which provokes disciplinary responsibility.

2.2 The background of the disciplinary responsibility may also be the facts of rude violation of the existing legislation.

2.3 Together with the existing legislation the obligatory norms at the Academy are the Constitution of the Academy, Code of Conduct, this Code, Orders of the Rector, and existing rules at the faculties, the student’s instructor’s fair claims that are directed to the principles of academic honesty, equal competition and ethic cooperation.

2.4 The instructor of the Academic Process is authorized to establish the obligatory rules for the certain study (lecture), assignments, such as forbidding the utilization of texts, technical and other means, that may fairly serve the goals of independent expression of students’ own skills while doing the assignment and the equal competition.

2.5 The misconducts are the subjects of the Disciplinary proceeding (discussion) that are committed on the territory of the Academy, or at activities organized by the Academy outside the Academy.

2.6 Except the cases indicated in point “2.5”, the punishment of the misconducts  committed outside the territory of the Academy are defined by the Interim Code of Conduct and special norms of this Code.

3. Misconduct Classification and Forms

3.1 Academic misconducts, misconducts against the order and other persons rights are the subject of the disciplinary proceeding (discussion)

3.2 Academic misconduct may include:

a) Aiming to achieve Academic Excellency, betraying other individual’s confidence or cheating, covert using of prohibited materials and equipment or other students’ work, concealing, damaging, destroying, changing, altering of works, documents and evaluations or other kind of actions, also appropriation of other individuals’ work.
b) To hinder other students Academic Achievements, by damaging- destroying, changing, altering evaluation of his/her work or with other kind of actions.
c) Intentionally provoking failing the academic process, lecture or exam committed by all means, also simulating illness and other preventing circumstances.

3.3 Violation of public order and the rights of other individuals may include:

a) Provoking conflict situation
b) Encroachment the property of any person by obtaining, destroying or damaging it. 
c) Irrespective, defiant, immoral behavior towards the society
d) Any act of violence, forcing, and threatening, psychological harassment by placing into fear, by abetting or by other means.  
e) Bringing, keeping or using the subjects and substances that are prohibited at the territory of the Academy
f) Using the subjects and substances that are out of civil circulation aiming to fail, disrupt the academic process or to impose illegal influence on other individuals
g) Insubordination towards the Academic Instructor or Academic Staff.

3.4. Smoking is only allowed during the free time from studying process and only in specially separated areas for smoking on the territory of the Academy.

3.5. Gambling is prohibited on the territory of the Academy.

3.6 Administration of the Academy is authorized to inform the governing bodies about the misconduct substituting the elements of administrative or criminal offence. Disciplinary proceeding is held independently from the reaction from the government.

3.7 Administration of the Academy exercises extraordinary, immediate interference for preventing or avoiding the misconduct independently form the government bodies.  

4. Disciplinary Penalties

4.1 The following disciplinary penalties may be used for the disciplinary misconduct:

a) No grade or reduction of grade
b) No credit or reduction of credit

4.2 For other kind of misconduct may be used;

a) Written Warning
b) Suspension for a certain period of time.
c) Prohibition to attend/participate in the events organized by the Academy
d) Expulsion from the Academy – for rude misconduct or misconduct committed after receiving the written warning, also in case of imposing administrative or criminal penalty upon him/her.

4.3 The usage of the disciplinary penalty will result in the personal (disciplinary) file and will be reflected on his/her letter of reference.

4.4 Expulsion from the Academy may occur in case of Academic decrease or in case of non-payment of the tuition fees.

4.5 Property damage caused by the misconduct will cause the material responsibility of the student.

5. Subjects of Disciplinary Proceeding and the mode of Hearing

 5.1. The issues of students’ disciplinary responsibility and withdrawal of disciplinary penalty are discussed by the Faculty Council.

5.2. Dean of the faculty depending on the information concerning misconduct, or depending on explanation report decides to begin hearing the disciplinary case.

5.3. Disciplinary hearing may also begin upon the decision of the Rector or Vice-President.

5.4. Head of Academic process is authorized to forbid student to attend the lectures till the end of studying process as a result of his/her misbehavior, or disrupting academic process.  This kind of fact may become the base for disciplinary proceeding.

5.5. Representative of administrative or academic personnel writes an act describing the situation with signatures of attending persons to documentary file the misconduct.

5.6. Student is given the opportunity to give a written or oral explanation concerning the subject of discussion before the Faculty Council begins the essential hearing.

5.7. Faculty Council is authorized to allow student to attend the sitting of the Faculty Council where his/her issue of disciplinary responsibility is discussed; Parents and/ or legal representatives of underage student are allowed to attend the hearing of the case.

5.8. Aiming to fully understand all the circumstances of the case the Council may listen to the explanations of academic personnel, students and other individuals who have the information concerning the subject of discussion.

5.9. Faculty Council makes his decisions concerning choosing of disciplinary penalty type, or withdrawing the penalty, based on studying the circumstances from all sides.  The decisions of the Council must be well -founded.

5.10. The decision of using disciplinary penalty is formed in Rector’s order.

5.11. If the Rector does not agree with the decision made by Faculty Council he/she addresses the Ruling Council with the subject of consideration for the final decision. 

6. Students’ rights to receive explanations and to participate in disciplinary proceeding.

6.1. A student has a right to see the documents about his/her right and responsibilities immediately upon his/her request. A student also has a right to request the explanation for the rules that she/he is obliged to follow.

6.2. Student has a right to request discussing responsibility of a person/persons who abused his/her rights and to become familiar with this proceeding decision.

6.3. A student against whom the disciplinary case has been proceeding has a right to:

a) become familiar with an accusation;
b) give explanations;
c) request hearing of others explanation;
d) defense himself/herself, express his/her own opinions and evaluations;
e) present documents and other evidence.
f) address Ruling Council with motivated petition to withdraw/change disciplinary decision           made by the Faculty Council.