"Audit: ND university awarded unearned degrees" Associated Press, February 11, 2012
BISMARCK, N.D. - 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.
So that's why Santorum is screaming North Dakota is a target of Iran!
China, which sends more students to American universities than any other nation, became one of the school’s more reliable suppliers of young people.
Then it is Chinese infiltrators?
But as an audit made public yesterday revealed, lax recordkeeping 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....
Can you imagine getting back to China and explaining how this piece of paper doesn't mean shit? How do you say idiot in Chinese?
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 US universities....
Dickinson State’s new president, D.C. Coston, also held a meeting with students that was interrupted by a university lockdown after a professor was reported missing with a gun.
Doug LaPlante, 59, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound yesterday afternoon near a Dickinson intersection, police said....
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"No punishment in false degrees case
BISMARCK - 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 yesterday. However, the university vice president in charge of overseeing the program in which the students studied resigned Friday after the audit was released (AP)."
Lack of accountability in AmeriKa is a lesson I hope the Chinese learned well.
Maybe they had something to do with this?
"Landowners search for teacher’s body" January 17, 2012
WILLISTON, N.D. - Authorities renewed calls yesterday for landowners near the northern North Dakota-Montana border to look for signs of a missing Montana teacher’s buried body, while documents revealed one of the two suspects in her disappearance has spent time in prison.
At a news conference yesterday, authorities asked that landowners help look for the body of 43-year-old Sherry Arnold, a math teacher from Sidney who has been missing since Jan. 7 and is presumed dead....
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