InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

["Mark Scheible" <>]

Thought I'd pass this along since it seems relevant to our recent webinar as well as our pending survey.

 

Mark

 

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Mark A. Scheible
Manager, Identity and Access Management

OIT - Security & Compliance

North Carolina State University

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(919) 513-1650

(919) 604-4013

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From:	"Jortberg Michael - mjortb" <>
To:	"Mark Scheible" <>, <>
Date:	3/11/2010 11:43 PM
Subject:	California Man Took College Exams for Middle Eastern Students

A client of ours sent this new link to me today and I thought I’d pass it on.

Full story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588485,00.html

News video here: Student-visa-fraud ring busted in O.C. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7319636

At one point, officials said, Higgins got so busy he hired other American students to pose as foreigners and take their tests. They allegedly obtained fake California drivers' licenses using their own photos, but using the Arab students' names.

Higgins allegedly charged foreign students:
-- $1,400 to take the math and English placement exams.
-- $1,200 to $1,500 to take final exams and other classwork.
-- $1,000 to take the TOEFL, or English as a foreign language, entrance exam.

After the 9/11 terror attacks, American colleges were supposed to tighten their monitoring of foreign students and verify their identities. Guzman says this case proves some campuses have a long way to go.
"It tells them they have a problem, where they are going to have to do something about verifying the identification off individuals coming in to take entrance exams and classes at those institutions," he said.

 

 

 

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Michael Jortberg

Acxiom Corporation

 

Office (630) 944-0379

Cell (847) 962 3321

Fax (720) 746-6050

 

www.acxiom.com/Education

 

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