A Study On The Identification Of The Postgraduate Academic Misconduct

In recent years, the issue of postgraduate academic misconduct has becomeincreasingly outstanding. Simply categorizing the issue into general academicmisconduct obviously cannot meet the theoretical and practical needs of postgraduateeducation. Therefore, there is a great necessity of paying attention to the specialidentity of graduate students, the research and details of governance for postgraduateacademic misconduct. In this context, this paper, based on the practice of graduatestudent misconduct, centering on the special identity of the graduate students andbehavior subjectivity, chooses academic misconduct as a starting point and its mainstudy subject. Through the exploration of the concept and connotation of graduatemisconduct, as well as the general analysis of historical problems and presentsituation both in the United States and China, this essay puts forward some ideas andsuggestions, providing beneficial helps and enlightenment to the improvement of ourcountry’s identification of graduate misconduct.This paper holds that, postgraduate academic misconduct is the inappropriatebehavior in which a postgraduate violates the academic rules and norms recognizedby the academic community. The identification of the postgraduate academicmisconduct is a legal process in which the powerful subjects, according to certainstandards and procedures, confirm the postgraduate academic misconduct. Thisprocess has profound implications.In order to conduct better research on the identification of postgraduate academicmisconduct in our country, this paper, selecting the United States as the researchreference which has more experience in such related field, introduces and analyzespostgraduate misconduct in such respects: subjects, standards, procedures, results, andidentification environment. The identification system of the US for postgraduateacademic misconduct possesses many advantages, such as a clear standard system andpoly-balanced major structure, attention to the procedural justice and rights protection,emphasis on academic freedom and participation in the identification, stress oneducational remediation and good academic environment. In spite of disunified standards, complex legal system and over-costly procedural justice, it is stillundeniable that the US has a mature identification system and thus, is worth ourlearning.On the contrary, unclear standards, single subject, lack of programs, powerlessresults, defective environment, and insufficient innovation in identificationmeasures--all of these are the major problems of postgraduate academic misconductidentification in our country. Therefore, this paper puts forward the following basicprinciples to improve the misconduct identification in China: firmly base on the actualsituation of our country; selectively study of foreign successful experience; relying onnational policy support; internalizing self-discipline in the identification system.Afterwards, the study brings forward some suggestions for the improvement of ourcountry’s graduate misconduct identification, such as building a identification systemwith clear and operational standards; forming universities multi-governance as themajor structure; implementing procedural justice and right protection as the maincontents; promoting the education-first-punishment-second principle; improving fairand orderly identification environment; promoting innovation in the effectiveidentification measures, etc.