comment now | colleges and universities are being "fed" again, and the postgraduate promotion and exemption mechanism should be optimized
2024-10-03
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on september 29, the official website of fudan university school of management published a "notice on the 2024 fudan university school of management's recommended dishonest admissions list" (referred to as the "notice"). among them, 4 undergraduate students committed extremely serious violations of integrity during the recommendation and selection process, and 6 committed serious violations of integrity, so they were notified.
the so-called "recommended exemption" means to guarantee the research. there is a high probability that these students promised to enroll with the school, and may even have signed a letter of commitment and other documents, but in the end they did not enroll. therefore, in the eyes of the school, it is a violation of integrity.
objectively speaking, this kind of behavior may cause the school's enrollment quota to be wasted and the enrollment plan to be disrupted, which is a loss for the school and also causes other students to miss the opportunity to study. of course, this kind of "putting pigeons free" behavior should not be promoted.
judging from the news comment area, many people do not approve of such behavior, but another question raised by some netizens is also worthy of attention: how effective can the announcement of the list be? most of these students are undergraduates from other schools, and fudan school of management is unlikely to impose any meaningful punishment. there are no corresponding punitive provisions in the current regulatory documents. for "disloyal students", the impact is relatively limited.
similar cases are actually not uncommon. for example, in april 2021, a professor from a first-class university posted on his blog his experience of being "fed" by students. the professor said, "when the students contacted me, they said all kinds of sweet words and pledged themselves to each other, and they were just about to sign a contract of renunciation. once they got it, i immediately changed into a different person after receiving a few offers, and i didn’t even consider the trouble it would cause to the admissions unit and teachers.”
the reason why this kind of thing is difficult to eradicate is essentially related to the characteristics of graduate student admissions - this is a multi-directional selection process. students can apply to multiple schools, and schools naturally admit the best. this system design makes it difficult to impose extremely strict constraints on students.
from the student's perspective, although it is dishonest, their ideas are not incomprehensible. each school's promotion schedule is different, and it is unlikely that they will have a very clear destination at the beginning.
during the promotion process, when faced with the commitment letter issued by the school, it is unlikely that you will have the courage to say "no" - saying "no" may bring disadvantages to the admission, and you may not be able to guarantee that there will be other schools to go to. . from the perspective of protecting personal interests, many students can only take the approach of holding multiple offers and then choosing the best. this may seem a bit "selfish" to the school, but students actually have their own difficulties as well.
since dismissal is a two-way choice process, it may be difficult to fundamentally solve the problem by condemning only one party. what should be discussed more is whether the mechanism can be optimized, which not only conforms to the general framework of multi-directional selection of promotion and exemption, but also ensures that the precious quota of promotion and exemption is not wasted.
for example, can the school establish a more scientific re-enrollment mechanism, quickly replenish other candidates after a student regrets, and increase the school's right of choice? or can the school imitate the deposit mechanism common in some foreign colleges and universities, that is, a deposit is required to confirm admission. tuition fees will be refunded or discounted after admission; in addition, some foreign colleges and universities have adopted a multi-round admissions approach to ensure full admissions as much as possible by lengthening the admissions process. this is also worthy of reference.
recommendation is actually a relatively flexible admissions mechanism that gives both schools and students a certain degree of autonomy. if this system is to be implemented more rationally, appropriate flexibility needs to be maintained in the final admissions process. if the application stage is completely free but the admission process is very strict, then it may be difficult to fundamentally solve similar problems. how to further optimize the existing system and reconcile frequent conflicts probably requires more exploration.
the paper special commentator zhang shiwei
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