Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These roles are formulated in accordance with the related national and Hunan province regulations, for the purpose of implementing the principles and policies of international students’ education, promoting the improvement of comprehensive quality of international students, cultivating high-quality of talents with global perspective and international culture communication.
Article 2 All scholarships are assessed mainly according to three aspects:daily performance, academic records and conditional priority.
Article 3 These procedures shall apply to officially registered full—time Undergraduates, master students and doctoral students, visiting scholars (study duration more than one academic year) at Changsha University of Science & Technology (CSUST).
Article 4 Scholarship of Outstanding International Student is divided into first-class, second-class,third-class and individual scholarship. Number of scholarship winners will be decided by the International College accordingly.
Chapter II Daily Performance Evaluation
Article 5 Daily performance for evaluation includes learning attitude,physical and mental health and civilized behavior(people who fail to pass the Daily performance evaluation do not have the chance to participate in scholarship evaluation).The basic content of these four aspects are as follows:
1. Learning Attitude
Clear learning objective,be humble and fond of learning,study hard,respect their lectures,do not have reason of absence or lateness,help classmates and take an initiative in teaching and research.
2. Physical and Mental Health
Be conscious of physical and mental health, establishes constructive interpersonal relationship,and take an active part in physical training,sports, contests, cultural and recreational programs.Love labor and pay attention to personal hygiene.
3. Civilized Behavior
Abide by the relevant policies and decrees formulated by the Chinese government and the rules and regulations of CSUST. No violations of law and discipline.
Daily performance evaluation is mainly assessed by class teacher, monitor, and classmates.The total Score is 100,among which class teacher assessment occupies 40%.monitor assessment occupies 20%,and classmate assessment occupies 40%.
Article 6 In the event of any of the following situations, daily performance of evaluation are not satisfied.
1.Anyone,in violation of the provisions of the laws, who has been punished by a public security entity or by justice department.
2.Anyone, who has broken any of the rules and regulations of the school, and has been punished.
3.Anyone whose misbehavior and misconduct has a negative influence on other students.
Article 7 In the event of any of the following situations, daily performance of evaluation will get additional deduction.
1.Anyone, who absent from class without asking for leave at International Student Office (late arrivals or early withdrawals twice counts as absent), deduct 2 points each time.
2.Anyone, who absent from meetings, lectures, and events; without asking for leave at International Student Office; deduct 2 points each time.
3.Anyone, who is unqualified,in a variety of examination and appraisal of their apartments, deduct 2 points each time.
Chapter III Academic Records Evaluation
Article 8 Academic records are scored by average of international students’ scores.Calculated as follows:G=∑(Xi x Yi)/∑yi.
Xi refers to marks of each subject included in evaluation (the hundred-mark system is adopted);
Yi refers to credits of related subject.
The assessment of students’ academic records will be unqualified and they will not be eligible for scholarship evaluation if they fail to pass any exam in the academic year under review.
Chapter IV Innovation Ability Evaluation
Article 9 Innovation ability refers to the ability that students acquired in the year through their special skills, creative spirit in academic, spots, literature and art achievements or social activities, etc. CSUST encourage students learning at all levels to actively take part in all kinds of academic, sports, literature and art, or social activities, in order to understand the Chinese culture, and promote mutual communication.
Article 10 International students can win the score if they take part in some academic, sports, literature and art, or social activities or they play key role in students’organization or group. The total scores they win cannot exceed 20 and it will be added to the student’s total score. They can also participate in other single scholarship by this. The single scholarships include academic stag sports star, star of art, social activity star and growth star.
Article 11 The best score will be taken if the student joins the same activity and the score of the activity cannot be added. After attending the event there will be multiple positions, the first prize is ten times and the second plus 20%and the last reduced 2%.
Article 12 The score will be ignored and the daily performance evaluation will not pass if a false report is found in the innovation ability test.
Article 13 The standards of evaluating academic star are shown below:
1. Students who participate in international/national—level, provincial 1evel, municipal-level, or school—level competitions/activities can get 3 points, 2 points, 1 5 points, 1 point respectively,
2. The winners of the above competitions/activities in accordance with their ranking as the first prize(including special award), second prize and third prize can get their points multiplied by the coefficient of 2, 1.5,and 1.2 respectively.
3. Students who publish academic papers in provincial, national core journals and international academic journals can get 1 point, 2 points and 4 points respectively. Students who work as editor in chief, co-chief of academic journals can get 3 points and 1.5 points respectively;author coauthor can get 4 and 2 points respectively.
4. Getting school-level,municipal,provincial,national and international research program and scientific and technological inventions (after relevant identification) can obtain 0.5 points, 1 point, 2 points, 3 points, and 6 points respectively.
5. Students who attend and have HSK test, HSK 3/ HSK 4/ HSK 5/ HSK 6, can obtain 1 point, 2 points, 3 points and 4 points respectively.
6. Students whose average score is above 90 or GPA is above 3.5, will obtain academic star directly.
Article 14 The standards of evaluating sports star are shown below:
1 .The head coach of the school sports meeting call get 1 point, each individual team’s coach and captain can get 0.8 points, and participants get 0.2 points.
2.The game (including collective project) winners (including the coach) according to the order (first to eighth) can be added 2 points, 1.6 points, 1.2 points, 0.8 points, 0.6 points, 0.4 points, 0.3 points and 0.2 points respectively.
Article 15 The standards of evaluating star of art are shown below:
1..Students participating in various cultural activities such as the International/national-level, provincial-level, municipal-level, university-level, and college-level can get 3 points, 2.points, 1.5 points, 1 point, and 0.2 points respectively.
2.The winners of above competitions/activities in accordance with their ranking as the first prize (including special award),second prize and third prize can get the points multiplied by the coefficient of 2, 1.5, and 1.2 respectively.
3.Students who have their cultural activities reported by media can get the points multiplied by the coefficient of 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 according to the level of media as internationa/national,provincial and municipal respectively.
4.The leader of a team (with more than five members) participating in international/national-level, provincial-level and municipal-level activities can get 1.5 points, 1 point, 0.5 points respectively.
Article 16 The standards of evaluating social activity star are shown below:
1.Students participating in various social activities in accordance with the level as international (including national), provincial, municipal, university and college can get 3 points, 2 points, 1.5 points, 1 point and 0.2 points respectively.
2. The winners of the above mentioned competitions/activities can get their points multiplied by the coefficient of 2, 1.5, and 1.2 respectively in accordance with the ranking of the prize as the first prize(including special award), second prize and third prize in these competitions.
3.The leader of the first-class association or student organization can get 2 points, and the other members managing the association/organization can get 1 point.The leader of second-class association or student organization (including class monitor, students in charge of the floor in student’s apartment) can get 1 point, and the other members managing the association/organization can get 0.5 points.
4. Students who participate in an activity with participant’s number of 200, 500, and more than 1000 can get the points multiplied by the coefficient of 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6 points respectively.If they have the activities reported in media, then they can get their points multiplied by the coefficient of 1.6, 1.4, and 1.2 respectively according to the level of media as international/national, provincial and municipal.
Article 17 Growth star: Students who take an active part in various contests in spite of no outstanding achievements can be directly awarded the individual scholarship of growth star as an encouragement.
Chapter V Evaluation Institution and Procedure
Article 18 International College set up student’s quality comprehensive assessment leading group (assessment leader group),and all classes should set up class assessment group.Assessment leader group consists of 3-5 people,with the Vice Dean in charge of Student’s Affairs and the Vice Dean in charge of Teaching Affairs acting as the leaders of the group,and the Director of Student’s International Student Office as the basic members. The assessment leader group listens to the report from International Student Office or class monitor, supervises the process of assessment and judges any objections in the assessment
Article 19 All classes should convene a democratic appraisal meeting for review by International Student Office when conducting the evaluation of daily performance (G1), and the calculation of specific scores should be completed by class assessment group.
Article 20 The evaluation of course scores (G2) should be calculated by class assessment group and the counting process and result should be under the supervision and verification of leader group.
Article 21 The scores of innovation ability (G3) can be obtained with students providing materials of evidence and International Student Office verify all these materials.The scores of social work should be decided after the discussion between the department students worked and the International College assessment leader group.
Article 22 Results of the assessment mentioned above should be reported to International College assessment group for final verification and announcement after the calculation of class assessment group and the signature verification of students themselves. Different opinions concerning the result of assessment should be submitted to International College assessment leader group within a week,and should be settled within three days.
Chapter VI Evaluation Result and Application
Article 23 The final score (G) of comprehensive assessment of every academic year is the sum of the scores of daily performance evaluation (G1),the result of course scores evaluation (G2) and the scores of innovation ability (G3),that is,G=-G1+G2+G3.
Article 24 The result of the assessment is regarded as the basis of the all kinds of scholarships, and recommends student(s) to employer(s). Qualification for student subsidies will be canceled for the academic year if the student’s daily performance evaluation or course scores evaluation does not meet the requirements.
Article 25 Applications should be submitted in paper form, including:
A. Scholarship Application Form filled in by applicant;
B. Summary report on study, life and activity experience on school days;
Article 26 The International College is authorized by the University, to reserve the right of further explanation of these provisions.
Article 27 This provision takes effect from the day it is issued.