UCLA Sr.Associate dean on Wuhan University
Wuhanese 发表于 2002/06/11 22:57 华中科技大学校友论坛 (www.hust.org)
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to call your attention to a very disturbing set of
circumstances of which many of you may not be aware. It has to do with
the authenticity of tranxxxxs emanating from universities within the PRC.
We recently had to verify a student's set of tranxxxxs from Wuhan
University,
and found that what we had in our office, which looked like an original,
with the appropriate stamps etc., was in fact very different from what was
on file with the University. Several courses had been added and many
grades were changed. Additionally, three of the student's five letters of
recommendation were from professors who taught courses that were never
taken (the letterhead was also different from the other two letters). During
a recruitment visit to UCLA, the student was interviewed by faculty
members in our program, and was soundly endorsed for acceptance. Subsequent
to our
discovery of the falsified papers in the dossier, we had no choice but
to withdraw our offer of acceptance.
In collaboration with the U.S. university where the student was enrolled
in a master's program, we determined that yet another and different
falsified tranxxxx was on file with them. Moreover, we now know that there
is at least one operation in China from which the applicant was able to obtain
these sets of forged tranxxxxs. When both of our programs went into
the archives and examined the tranxxxxs xxxxted over the past few years
by other applicants who had graduated from Wuhan, we found them to have two
different appearances: Ones that have the look of the originals that we
received directly from the Dean of Records, and the others that were
identical to the forgeries. We are tentatively concluding that other
applicants and yes, even current and former students, xxxxted forged
tranxxxxs; some going back as far as 1992. Needless to say, the student
in question was expelled from the master's program based on the evidence
collected.
At this point I am forced to question the authenticity of tranxxxxs from
other universities in China as well. As a recent article in US News and
World Reports points out, there is a dramatic rise in falsified test
scores, diplomas and tranxxxxs from the PRC
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/chinafraud.htm
Regrettably, I am now in the process of having to formulate new policies
and procedures as to how we can guarantee that applications from the PRC can
be deemed authentic. In the next few weeks, we will likely consider
suspending applications/admissions from the PRC until a mechanism is in
place
whereby only authentic tranxxxxs are received directly from a single
responsible individual within the administration of each university. It has
been difficult enough to navigate through PRC applications in light of
revelations by the ETS of irregularities in GRE and TOEFL scores.
Uncertainties about tranxxxxs make this task even more difficult.
Since this matter is of such gravity, I would like this letter to be the
beginning of an on-line dialogue whose ultimate goal is to formulate a
consensus policy that will send a loud and clear statement to the student
population of the PRC: We will no longer be taken advantage of in this
way.
I realize that the majority of students who apply to our programs from
China are sincere applicants who should not be presumed guilty of such
crimes.
I feel just as strongly that we must stand together to eradicate a system
that has undoubtedly led to millions of our tax dollars being spent on
dishonest students who have fraudulently displaced the honest ones from our
admissions process. I would be most grateful to hear your experiences, your
opinions and your suggestions.
Thanks in advance,
David Meyer
Sr. Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and
Director, UCLA ACCESS
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