Recently, a 23-page PDF went viral on the Internet, but the content was not an anecdote of a celebrity, but a joint report by fifteen graduate students of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications on the moral problems of their mentor Zheng. Among them, Zheng is emotionally unstable, often abusing students, checking students' private mobile phones and asking to delete chat history, helping his daughter to do homework and even cheating in exams, and other things that have nothing to do with scientific research and study, and most of the students have minor or serious physical and psychological problems.
As soon as the incident came out, it sparked heated discussions on the Internet, and BUPT responded quickly on the evening of April 10, 2024: the school decided to cancel Zheng's graduate tutor qualification, stop his teaching work, and give an administrative sanction of reducing the post level, and the post level will be reduced from associate professor level 7 to lecturer level 10; The school will respect the wishes of students and change tutors for all students supervised by Zheng.
Regarding the reported incident, netizens also exploded after learning about it and expressed their opinions. Most netizens expressed a very angry attitude.
Many netizens praised these whistleblowers, believing that it was the students who had the courage to defend their rights and interests, which was a kind of progress! Netizens laughed and said: The post-00s generation has now even begun to rectify their education.
There are also some netizens who criticize the quality of the current tutors, believing that they have affected the training of graduate students.
Han Yu wrote in "The Teacher's Saying": "The teacher, so preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts. However, many graduate students now call their supervisors "boss", which shows that the scientific research work of graduate students is no longer pure.
After the "00" who dared to fight, he gradually began to show a different learning attitude and teacher-student relationship. "Joint reporting" has become an important weapon for graduate students to resist bad supervisors.
On January 18, several doctoral students and graduate students of Huazhong Agricultural University jointly reported that their supervisor Huang had academic fraud, embezzlement of scientific research funds and other practices that violated teacher ethics. It's hard to imagine how determined they are to even report their mentors at the cost of a low-hanging degree to fight for their legal rights.
A number of cases of "joint reporting" by students have revealed the problems of the tutor system, management system and academic environment in mainland higher education, including abuse of power, academic corruption, moral anomie, and lax selection standards. At the same time, it also exposes students' tolerance for tutors' misconduct and their demands for the pursuit of fair education, prompting colleges and universities to reflect on strengthening the system construction in the selection and supervision of tutors, protecting students' rights and interests, and improving the quality of education.
We should praise BUPT's timely feedback, they did not shield teachers or take measures to calm people, showing the reaction of universities when dealing with similar reports, emphasizing the necessity of norms for tutors and the crackdown on academic malpractices.
As the main force of the new era, the post-00s generation has a flamboyant personality, is willing to perform, has clear goals, and does not succumb to power.