North Dakota school awards unearned degrees to foreigners
USINFO | 2013-08-14 13:03
Dickinson State University awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students, many of them Chinese or Russian, 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. 

The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its Friday release, depicts the North Dakota school as a diploma mill for foreign students where lax record-keeping was common. 

Agreements Dickinson State made with foreign universities have been "seriously lacking controls and oversight,'' the audit says. 

``Several process level controls have been waived, or controls that were once in place have been intentionally overridden, or ignored,'' it says. 

The report says 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. 
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