The Regulations have greatly strengthened the position and role of academic committees in the school organization system. "As an academic institution, universities should adhere to the concept of academic establishment and teaching research, and hand over their academic ideas, professional construction, teaching plans, scientific research programs and academic evaluations to the professors' committees and academic members of the school for decision-making." Professor Qin Huang, President of China University of Political Science and Law, gave an evaluation.
Qin Huang said, "Building a modern university system is the development direction of higher education, and the core content of the modern university system is to establish a scientific, reasonable and perfect modern university governance structure. Academic committee of colleges and universities is an important part of corporate governance structure of colleges and universities, and academic governance system of colleges and universities is an indispensable part of corporate governance structure of colleges and universities. The "Regulations" stipulate the positioning and responsibilities of academic committees in colleges and universities, as well as the relationship with other academic organizations, and further improve the modern university system with China characteristics. " The Regulations clarify the composition and rules of academic committee members, the proportion of school leaders and department heads, and emphasize the inclination to teachers and grassroots academic organizations. "Academic committees should generally be composed of professors from different disciplines and professions and personnel with professional and technical positions above senior level, and there should be a certain proportion of young teachers. The number of academic committees should match the disciplines and majors of the school and should be an odd number not less than 15. Among them, the number of members holding party and government leadership positions in schools and functional departments shall not exceed1/4 of the total number of members; Full-time professors who do not hold the leadership positions of the party and government and the main heads of departments and departments shall not be less than 1/2 of the total number of members. "
At the same time, in terms of the mechanism for the formation of members, the regulations require that attention should be paid to the development of grassroots academic democracy, and members should be representative and mobile. In order to balance the relationship between the academic Committee and the school administration, the regulations also regulate the way in which the chairman of the academic Committee is elected. It is stipulated that the chairman is nominated by the principal, elected by all members, or directly elected by all members, and the specific way is decided by the school.
In order to strengthen the role and authority of academic committees, the Regulations also clarify that academic committees have four types of authority, such as deliberation (decision-making), evaluation, consultation and adjudication of academic disputes, and have specific provisions for each type of authority, which provides a basis for academic committees to play their roles effectively. The "Regulations" also provide detailed regulations on the organization and operation rules, procedures and supervision mechanism of the academic committee's own construction, standardize the meeting rules, and establish a number of systems such as meeting openness, withdrawal of members, decision publicity and objection, and annual report, so as to ensure that the academic committee organizes its operation and supervision according to the academic rules.
In response to academic misconduct, the Regulations particularly emphasize that "for acts that violate academic ethics, academic committees may directly revoke or suggest relevant departments to revoke the corresponding academic titles and academic treatments of the parties according to their functions and powers, and may also make suggestions to schools and relevant departments."
"For a long time, there have been several problems that need to be solved urgently in academic committees of colleges and universities," said Yang, secretary-general and professor of Peking University. "The powers and responsibilities are not clear enough, the boundaries of powers and responsibilities are vague, and the functions and roles in the school governance structure need to be clarified and strengthened; Members are administrative, representative, open and democratic, and the subject and procedural rules need to be improved urgently; The conference system and rules are not perfect, and the operation mechanism needs to be improved urgently; Academic organizations in colleges and universities are fragmented, highly dispersed and attached to functional departments, so it is urgent to strengthen the independence of academic organizations; The academic Committee lacks the necessary human and financial support and guarantee conditions. "
Yang stressed, "The Regulations have made basic institutional arrangements for the above-mentioned main problems existing in the academic committees of colleges and universities, and at the same time fully respected the differences and independence of colleges and universities, leaving sufficient space for the personalized institutional arrangements of colleges and universities and filling the gaps." "The promulgation of the" Regulations "is only reflected on paper, and it has really become a code of conduct for university management, and there is still a series of work. To implement the right of self-management of academics, it is necessary to avoid interference in many aspects. " Lao Kaisheng, a professor at Capital Normal University, stressed.
"First of all, we must avoid external interference factors, such as the administrative problems that the society is more concerned about, how to deal with the relationship between universities and the government, and how to deal with the separation of management and management; Secondly, internal interference factors should be avoided. For a long time, colleges and universities have formed a relatively centralized management mode. In the process of running a university, there are certain contradictions and conflicts between academics and management. How to avoid the interference of internal management is an important aspect of implementing the regulations. " Lao Kaisheng stressed.
"At present, there are problems in the academic community of some colleges and universities, and people who do not meet the standards have entered, so there are problems of academic anomie and academic fraud." Lao Kaisheng pointed out, "Therefore, we are delighted to see that the regulations have laid the foundation for the academic committees of colleges and universities to independently exercise their academic power and established their status as the highest academic institution in the academic organization system of colleges and universities; From the aspects of composition and operation system, it also clearly defines the relationship between academic and management in colleges and universities, and also makes corresponding provisions on academic misconduct and style of study in colleges and universities. "