Ministry of Education’s Regulations Governing the Establishment of the Academic Award Article 6-1

The recusal of members of the Academic Review Committee from review and ballot-casting procedures shall be handled in accordance with the following provisions:1.If a member of the Academic Review Committee is one of the candidates currently recommended for an Academic Award, that person shall recuse themself from all review and ballot-casting procedures.2.If any one of the circumstances listed below pertains to any member of the Academic Review Committee and to any candidate currently recommended for an Academic Award, the member shall disclose the circumstances to the Committee. That member may participate in the review process but shall recuse themself from the ballot-casting procedure.(1)The committee member and the candidate have had a teacher-student relationship in which the committee member was an advisor for the candidate’s doctoral or master’s degree thesis;(2)The committee member and the candidate both hold a position in the same department, institute, or division, or in another unit of an equivalent-level;(3)The committee member and the candidate have co-authored an academic paper or research findings published within the past two years.(4)The committee member and the candidate have jointly conducted a research project within the past three years.(5)Any of the circumstances referred to in the provisions of Article 32 and Article 33 of the Administrative Procedure Act.3.If any member of the Academic Review Committee has or has had some relationship with any candidate recommended for a National Chair Professorship, apart from those relationships listed in the subparagraphs above, all of which must be disclosed, the member may disclose it to the Academic Review Committee of their own volition, and the Academic Review Committee will then discuss whether recusal is necessary and pass a resolution.