Tsinghua University

For ordinary degree-program students, serious homework, laboratory-report or course-paper plagiarism, alteration of laboratory data, or other serious learning falsification can attract sanctions from warning through probation under Article 21. This general framework does not classify every use of AI as misconduct.

An official-site interview explains that the AI Guiding Principles interface with the existing teaching and academic standards system rather than replace specific management rules. Units and instructors must provide the applicable implementation details.

General exam rules classify unauthorized electronic-device retrieval of exam-related materials during an exam, and the other listed carrying/copying behaviors, as cheating attracting demerit or above. This is not an AI-specific rule, not evidence of AI permission, and not an automatic sanction for any AI use.

The university-hosted interview reports that when AI makes a substantive contribution to an academic outcome, students must clearly and prominently mark or declare its use as required by the university, unit or instructor. The interview is public explanatory evidence, not the retrieved full guiding-principles document.

A university-hosted report dated 29 September 2026 states Xiaoda opened to all undergraduate and graduate students in June 2025 after its 2024 freshman pilot. Account access, feature entitlements and pricing were not independently tested. This does not authorize coursework or exam use.

An undated Student Learning and Development Center page still describes Xiaoda as a pilot limited to 2024 undergraduates. This is retained as historical/conflicting page wording; the dated September 2026 report supplies the later broader opening statement. Current authenticated eligibility is untested.

A degree applicant contesting an academic evaluation in expert review, defense or achievement recognition may seek written academic review from the relevant degree subcommittee. It must reorganize expert review and decide within thirty days of accepting the application; that review decision is final. The text does not supply a general thirty-day filing window.

For degree applicants/holders, a university degree committee resolution leads to non-conferral or revocation where the degree thesis or practical achievement is determined to involve ghostwriting, plagiarism, fabrication or the other listed grounds. Before a proposed decision, the subcommittee must notify the content, facts, reasons and basis and hear statement and defense.

Refusal to accept a degree application may be reviewed by the relevant unit; non-conferral or revocation may be reviewed by the university degree committee, or the person may seek legally provided external handling. The unit/committee must decide within thirty days after accepting a review application. These routes differ from academic-evaluation review.

The 2025 Academic Misconduct Investigation Measures apply to faculty, staff and students in academic research and related activities. They are not a universal procedure for every course-grade disagreement.

SIGS has its own Academic Misconduct Investigation Measures, effective 1 June 2026, applying to SIGS faculty, staff and students in academic research and related activities. Do not generalize its unit procedures to every Tsinghua school.

After university academic committee determination, Article 19 assigns demerit or above for specified academic misconduct, including plagiarism, fabrication and improper authorship; plagiarism, alteration or fabrication in degree theses or published research attracts probation or above. Article 20 assigns expulsion for serious such thesis/research misconduct or thesis ghostwriting/trading. These require the specified findings and procedure.

The appeal office notifies acceptance or reasoned refusal within three working days of submitted materials. Receipt of an appeal is calculated from confirmed acceptance. The original decision generally continues during appeal; the committee may recommend deferral where necessary.

A student contesting a decision listed in Article 3 may submit a written internal appeal within ten days of delivery of the effective decision document. If justified reasons prevented timely filing, the student may file within ten days after those reasons end. These are application deadlines, not review-completion periods.

For periods under the student appeal measures, the starting day is not counted and time in transit is excluded. Do not convert the stated day periods into working days.

For an accepted internal student appeal, the committee normally makes a written review conclusion within fifteen days of receipt; complex cases may extend fifteen days with the chair’s approval. Receipt is defined by Article 20 as confirmed acceptance. This is not the filing deadline.

The student appeal measures apply to the listed university decisions on admission/student status, withdrawal, non-issuance of academic/degree certificates, and disciplinary sanctions. They do not establish a generic appeal deadline for an ordinary mark dispute.

Demerit and lesser student sanctions are decided after leadership-office discussion; probation and expulsion require university affairs meeting determination after leadership-office discussion. Expulsion also requires prior legality review.

After delivery of a proposed student-sanction notice, the student, guardian or authorized representative has five working days to request written or oral statement/defense; oral requests must be arranged within five working days. Proposed expulsion carries a written hearing-request deadline of ten days after receipt, subject to the stated waiver conditions.

In student discipline, the student’s unit conducts preliminary verification and decides within five working days whether to register handling or discipline, files with the competent university authority and reports back. This is separate from the 15-working-day research-investigation acceptance stage.

Before student discipline, the proposed-sanction notice must specify the sanction type, basis, term, facts and evidence, and the rights to statement and defense. Proposed expulsion also carries a hearing-request right; students may contest the notice.

The Academic Affairs Office or Graduate School is responsible for student cases involving academic misconduct or learning discipline; other categories have different competent authorities. These disciplinary regulations cover ordinary undergraduate and graduate degree students, with the specified analogous application for non-degree professional graduate students.

General exam rules assign probation or above for the Article 25 categories involving obtaining or transmitting exam materials/answers or collaborative copying. Article 26 assigns expulsion for organizing cheating by three or more, impersonation, repeat cheating or other egregious cheating. Apply the actual facts and procedure, not a universal AI penalty.

The university academic committee determines whether conduct is academic misconduct and its gravity from the investigation report. The university then applies the relevant rules, nature and seriousness to handling or discipline; an AI-use allegation is not an automatic sanction.

For research-misconduct reports, the discipline planning office organizes preliminary verification and determines acceptance/registration within 15 working days, notifying the reporting unit or named reporter and explaining rejection in writing. Article 9 also lists grounds for non-acceptance.

Within five working days after formal registration, the university academic committee forms an investigation group of at least five and the discipline planning office gives the investigated person written notice. This deadline is for constituting a research investigation, not a student appeal.

Participants in academic-misconduct investigations and determinations must recuse themselves where their or relatives’ interests could affect fairness.

Research fact-finding must protect the investigated person’s right to make a statement and verify the relevant facts, reasons and evidence.

Research investigations may be suspended for missing key information or unavailable conditions; suspension time is excluded. Intellectual-property litigation affecting classification requires suspension and later resumption. Death ends that person’s investigation without ending other persons’ investigations.

Research investigation, determination and handling should normally finish within six months of acceptance, including investigation within three months. Particularly complex cases or force majeure may justify an investigation extension approved by the academic committee chair, limited to six additional months.

Within SIGS, the college academic committee coordinates investigations, its research office is the secretariat, and relevant secondary units verify cases. This is the SIGS division of responsibilities, distinct from the university discipline planning office.

SIGS academic committee determines cases within its remit; cases requiring university academic committee determination are referred to the university. The college handles responsibility under the relevant school/college determination and applicable rules.

For undergraduates under the published student-status regulations, violation of course-assessment discipline invalidates the assessment result, recorded as zero or F. This general consequence requires the relevant violation; it is not triggered by every use of AI.

The undergraduate student-status regulations provide for lawful revocation of academic/degree certificates obtained through cheating, plagiarism or other academic misconduct or improper means, and the specified registration cancellation. Degree decisions also have the distinct 2026 degree-measures procedure.

The investigation measures take effect on publication (17 November 2025) and repeal the earlier Prevention and Handling of Academic Misconduct Measures adopted in the 2016–2017 academic year. Preserve the older version as history.

SIGS’s measures take effect on publication, dated 1 June 2026 in official metadata, and repeal the SIGS 2022 implementation rules (清深国院规〔2022〕9号).