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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:41 am
APNewsBreak: Audit: N.Dakota school lacks controls
By DALE WETZEL | Associated Press – 46 mins ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Dickinson State University awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them, signed up students who couldn't speak English and enrolled a handful without qualifying grades, according to an audit report of the North Dakota school.
The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its Friday release, depicts Dickinson State as a diploma mill for foreign students where lax record-keeping was common. Most of the affected students were Chinese, the audit says.
It lists 410 students who received a degree in the program and says 400 of them were missing the requisite credits or course work. Of the 410 students who received degrees, 375, or 91 percent, were awarded them from the summer semester of 2008 through the end of last year, the report said.
The report does not specify how many of those students were from China, but says about 95 percent of the students in the dual-degree program were Chinese and the rest were Russian.
By DALE WETZEL | Associated Press – 46 mins ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Dickinson State University awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them, signed up students who couldn't speak English and enrolled a handful without qualifying grades, according to an audit report of the North Dakota school.
The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its Friday release, depicts Dickinson State as a diploma mill for foreign students where lax record-keeping was common. Most of the affected students were Chinese, the audit says.
It lists 410 students who received a degree in the program and says 400 of them were missing the requisite credits or course work. Of the 410 students who received degrees, 375, or 91 percent, were awarded them from the summer semester of 2008 through the end of last year, the report said.
The report does not specify how many of those students were from China, but says about 95 percent of the students in the dual-degree program were Chinese and the rest were Russian.
