State university classified as diploma mill

me again · Feb 11, 2012

Dale Wetzel said:

The audit depicts Dickinson State University 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.

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 an audit revealed lax recordkeeping and oversight in hundreds of degrees being awarded to students who did not finish their course work. Others enrolled who could not speak English or had not achieved the "C" average required for admission.
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Audit: University in North Dakota awarded unearned degrees - The Denver Post

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Jonathan Whatley · Feb 11, 2012

Wow, what a rough day they've had.

I applaud this openness:

A Dickinson State official news item said:

Dickinson State University has been “seriously lacking controls and oversight” in administration of certain international programs, according to the internal articulation agreement audit and review report released today during a press conference at the Badlands Activities Center. […]

The report suggests solutions which include: stopping or discontinuing the programs, suspending degree awards for current program students until all documentation is obtained, putting into place processes and controls to ensure against policy and procedure violations, terminating all agreements with foreign student agents or recruiters, accepting only official-sealed transcripts and insisting upon English proficiency and verification.
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PROGRAM VIOLATIONS FOUND AT DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY (Dickinson State University news item, February 10, 2012)

I think they're going to straighten this ship.

I see they have online majors in several fields, including the distinctive "Agriculture Sales/Service Equine Management" and "Agriculture Sales/Service Equine Training." If they need an export market, they should promote these, to the horsey set, or at least their service workers.

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