Great News In Public Education

From the Minot Daily News: Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment.
China, which sends more students to U.S. universities than any other nation, became one of the school's more reliable suppliers of young people.
But as an audit made public Friday revealed, lax record-keeping and oversight resulted in hundreds of degrees being awarded to students who didn't finish their course work. Others enrolled who couldn't speak English or hadn't achieved the "C'' average normally required for admission.
The report depicts Dickinson State as a diploma mill for foreign students, most of whom were Chinese. Of 410 foreign students who have received four-year degrees since 2003 - most of them in the past four years - 400 did not fulfill all the graduation requirements, it said.
The report raises questions about whether public universities, strapped for cash at a time of sharply declining state support for higher education, are cutting corners to attract foreign students who typically pay full out-of-state tuition. It also comes amid an unprecedented boom in the number of Chinese students studying at U.S. universities.
Dickinson State could face penalties from the U.S. State Department for violations of the federal student visa program, as well as sanctions from the Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security and the Higher Learning Commission in Chicago, an accreditation agency, the report said.  http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/562941/-Diploma-mill----Audit--Dickinson-university-awarded-unearned-degrees.html?nav=5010
This is not one of the private colleges that the public is led to believe that are dishonest.  Dickinson State University is a public university in North Dakota. http://www.dickinsonstate.edu/
It also makes you wonder how many other public universities are following in the footsteps of Dickinson State and I am pretty confident in saying that even major colleges are also engaged in some kind of fraud.
Students from abroad wanting to go to college in the U.S. bring n big money to colleges because they pay out of country tuition or at the very least, out of state tuition.  This is huge money for the colleges and now it appears some colleges are flaunting the rules and making their degrees worthless.
And this is a public university, who would have thought?  I guess folks like President Obama, liberals and the Department of Education didn't that this was a possibility because they believe public education is far superior over private education and that public education is as clean as the wind driven snow.
I guess not.
And of course, because this is a public school, no one will be discplined: No immediate discipline is planned for any Dickinson State University employees in the wake of an audit determining the school awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them, the chancellor of North Dakota's university system said Saturday.

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