"For two weeks in February, a lead news story in India was the “sham” Tri-Valley University, and the more than 1,500 Indian students who were deceived and may now be deported from the United States after the Department of Homeland Security closed the California enterprise.
This incident should motivate the U.S. higher education community to examine how an illegitimate organization could have been operating under the moniker “university” for so long and to such a large scale.
Usually, when the terms “foreign students” and “illegitimate” are paired together, it’s in debate over student recruitment services such as agents. What the Tri-Valley incident brings to light is that standards and professionalism are just as urgently needed in our own country, for those providing higher education to foreign students, as they are abroad, for those looking to counsel such students."
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