Reflection and Reconstruction:Exploring Non-academic Standards for University Degrees Revocation
The non-academic standards for degree revocation may include political standards,disciplinary and legal standards,and moral standards,which have equal importance as academic standards.Article 37 of the Degree Law needs to be more operable,and issues such as the authority and implementation procedures for setting non-academic standards are temporarily absent.The implementation measures for the degree law should transform the fallback clauses into enumerated clauses based on the types of non-academic standards and under the norms of the basic principles of administrative law.The authority to set non-academic standards should comply with the principle of legal reservation,the content should conform to the principle of proportionality,and degree recipients' procedural rights and remedies should be protected following the principle of due process.Universities should apply the principle of protecting trust interests based on specific circumstances,focus on institutional guarantees and organizational construction,and adopt a rule of law approach to resolve degree disputes.To strengthen the supervision of non-academic standards applied by universities,a dynamic balance is necessary through judicial power between universities' independent operation in accordance with the law and the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of degree holders.