Financial Misadventures of Three Marginal Universities for Foreign Students
By David North on March 14, 2019
The Commonwealth of Virginia seems to be moving toward revoking the operating license of Virginia International University (VIU) in Fairfax, Va. VIU, which offers both undergraduate and graduate courses, is known to be associated with the conservative Muslim cult run by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, now living in self-exile in rural Pennsylvania. The cult, and allegations of mismanagement of funds used to run its string of charter schools, have been investigated by the FBI for years, but no indictments have been filed, at least not yet.
VIU provides large numbers of work permits to its just about 100 percent F-1 (foreign student visa) student body, while, according to the state, tolerating excessive levels of plagiarism and other academic failings.
This development comes as other new information has emerged about the troubles of VIU, and two roughly comparable (though not Gulen-affiliated) institutions, Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU) in Fremont, Calif., and California University of Management and Sciences (CalUMS), which has operations in both California and Virginia.
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