【校園新聞】 港大消息否認申作軍為中共黨員 清華網頁證申2017年曾獲任命為黨委委員
由港大校長張翔領導的遴選委員會推薦了兩名清華大學系主任申作軍及宮鵬分別擔任港大副校長（研究）及（學術發展）。申作軍被指為中共黨員。
港大發言人昨晚（10 月 23 日）向傳媒表示「大學的人事任命需通過所有程序才會作出公佈，現時不宜評論。相關報導有內容與事實不符」，惟未有指出哪些內容與事實不符。
有港大消息人士指申作軍並非中共黨員。據消息稱，申作軍於90年代末期開始在美國修讀碩士和博士課程。由2004年到現時，申作軍一直在美國加州大學柏克萊分校（University of California, Berkeley）任教而申作軍由2014 年開始出任清華客座教授，但並不是全職。
惟根據 Google 快取服務於9月17日的記錄（https://bit.ly/34m2VLU），中共清華大學委員會於 2017年7月27日曾經發佈「關於幹部任免的通知」稱「同意工業工程系黨委換屆選舉結果」，指「申作軍⋯⋯為工業工程系黨委委員」，與早前被刪除資料一致，但相關資料已被刪除。（https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/newthu/openness/rsszxx/20170727x.html）
【Campus News】HKU Source claimed “Shen ZuoJun is not a Chinese Communist Party member” — a webpage of Tsinghua University says otherwise.
A selection committee led by President Xiang Zhang has recommended two mainland Chinese professors from Tsinghua University, Shen Zuojun and Gong Peng, for the posts of vice-presidents for research and academic development respectively. Shen is alleged to be a Chinese Communist Party member.
On 23rd October, a HKU spokesperson told the media that “It is not appropriate for the university to comment at this stage. At present, parts of media reports are inconsistent with facts” Yet, the spokesperson did not indicate which part of the reports is untrue.
A HKU source claimed that “Shen ZuoJun is not a Chinese Communist Party member”. According to the source, Shen started studying master and doctor programmes in the States since the end of the 90’s. Since 2004, Shen has been teaching at UC Berkeley. Shen has also been taking up an honorary teaching role at Tsinghua since 2014, but it is not a full-time job.
According to a record from Google cache on 17th September (https://bit.ly/34m2VLU), the Chinese Communist Party Tsinghua University Committee has published a “Notice of Cadre Appointment” on 27th July, 2017, which agrees with “the new term election result regarding party committee of the department of industrial engineering” and indicates that “Shen .... is a party committee of the department of industrial engineering”. This matches the now-deleted information on the Tsinghua website. (https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/newthu/openness/rsszxx/20170727x.html)
