Junior College Act Article 42

To enhance their educational effectiveness in junior colleges, elected student representatives shall attend meetings on matters related to academic studies, life, and the formulation of regulations governing awards and penalties.Junior colleges, to enhance the effectiveness of learning for students on campus and their ability to act autonomously, shall guide and support students to set up a student association and other associated autonomous organizations through elections in which all students have a vote.Students are ipso facto members of the student association referred to in the preceding paragraph. The student association may collect membership fees from its members. Junior colleges shall collect such membership fees from the students on behalf of the student association if requested to do so.Junior colleges shall establish a student grievance review system and set up a student appeal committee to handle cases where students, the student association, or other associated autonomous student organizations do not accept some penalty imposed by the college or some other college measure or decision, and thereby safeguard students’ rights and interests. Regarding the composition of the student appeal committee, people of each gender shall make up at least one third of the total number of members of the student appeal committee.The regulations governing the implementation of the matters referred to in the four preceding paragraphs shall be stipulated in the charter and by-laws of each junior college.