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UCLA通告全美:武汉大学多名学生篡改成绩单 
  
  
送交者: saidit 2002年6月18日10:54:00 于 [教育与学术]http://www.bbsland.com
  
  
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 tranx
xxxs emanating from universities within the PRC. 
  
We recently had to verify a student s set of ranxxxxs from Wuhan University, and
 found that what we had in our office, which looked like an original, with the a
ppropriate stamps etc., was in fact very different from what was on file with th
e University. Several courses had been added and many grades were changed. Addit
ionally, three of the student s five letters of recommendation were from profess
ors 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 membe
rs in our program, and was soundly endorsed for acceptance. Subsequent to our di
scovery 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 ma
ster 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 operatio
n in China from which the applicant was able to obtain these sets of forged tran
xxxxs. When both of our programs went into the archives and examined the tranxxx
xs xxxxted over the past few years by other applicants who had graduated from Wu
han, 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 other
s 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 ex
pelled from the master s program based on the evidence collected. 
  
At this point I am forced to question the authenticity of tranxxxxs from other u
niversities in China as well. As a recent article in US News and World Reports p
oints out, there is a dramatic rise in falsified test scores, diplomas and tranx
xxxs from the PRC(http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/chinafraud.h
tm. 
  
Regrettably, I am now in the process of having to formulate new policies and pro
cedures as to how we can guarantee that applications from the PRC can be deemeda
uthentic. In the next few weeks, we will likely consider suspending applications
/admissions from the PRC until a mechanism is in place whereby only authentic tr
anxxxxs are received directly from a single responsible individual within the ad
ministration of each university. It has been difficult enough to navigate throug
h PRC applications in light of revelations by the ETS of irregularities in GRE a
nd TOEFL scores. 
  
Uncertainties about tranxxxxs make this task even more difficult. Since this mat
ter is of such gravity, I would like this letter to be the beginning of an on-li
ne dialogue whose ultimate goal is to formulate a consensus policy that will sen
d a loud and clear statement to the student population of the PRC: We will no lo
nger 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 h
as undoubtedly led to millions of our tax dollars being spent on dishonest stude
nts who have fraudulently displaced the honest ones from our admissions process.
 
 I would be most grateful to hear your experiences, your opinions and your sugge
stions. 
  
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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