Posted on 10/23/2012 5:32:58 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The case of the Bangladeshi man charged with attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank raises some troubling questions related to the international-student process
This spring, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was studying cybersecurity at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.
How did he get from Bangladesh to the school, some 8,255 miles away? Who was responsible for screening him? And how did he end up in New York City, where he was arrested, instead of Southeast Missouri State?
There are any number of ways a student like Mr. Nafis could have arrived at the school, education specialists say. He might have applied online or might have had a friend who attended it. The university might have gone to Bangladesh to recruit students. Or, it might have used an agent who gets paid per student to supply foreign students to schools.
In Nafis’s case, Southeast Missouri State used a commission agent who was paid a fee for his enrollment, says Ann Hayes, a spokeswoman.
“The problem is the agents work for themselves, not for you,” says Barmak Nassirian, an independent consultant and former associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers in Washington.
“You are handing your institution’s name and credibility to someone overseas, and you don’t know what they are doing,” says Mr. Nassirian, who has been a critic of the practice.
One thing Southeast Missouri State didn’t know during Nafis’s application process: He had been enrolled at North South University in Bangladesh, Hayes says. Instead, he sent the US school his high school national exam data and his English test scores. Because they were above what is recommended for international students, he was accepted, she says.
Universities have turned to the agents
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Part of the application process requires you to go to a US Consulate for an interview. Whoever saw this kid at the Consulate blew it.
This spring, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was studying cybersecurity at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.
How did he get from Bangladesh to the school, some 8,255 miles away? Who was responsible for screening him? And how did he end up in New York City, where he was arrested, instead of Southeast Missouri State?
If this man had been a 'right winger' the New York Time's boys would have all the answers and 5 days worth of editorials. Charlie Rose would be booking the Southern Poverty Law Center for a series of TV interviews and the MSM would be going nuts. Odd, but for some reason they're very quiet about this... like crickets or something....like pathological bias ...
Plenty. Just think about the moslem students associations motto & anyone can understand that it’s all about jihad in dar al harb.
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