The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 24, 2019, 03:05:34 pm
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More on an Embattled, Turkish-Owned University for F-1 Visa Holders
By David North on March 22, 2019
While not a major player in the foreign student business (it has a student body of 167), the relationship between Washington's BAU University and its on-and-off accreditor, the just-barely-surviving Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), offers entertainment at the slap-stick level — a conflict between two angry, prideful, and conflicted minnows.
BAU is the Washington outpost of a prosperous Turkish, for-profit educational system; it has close ties to the Erdogan regime, but when it comes to filing financial reports (with American institutions, at least) it is slow and, according to ACICS, misleading. It has nice quarters a few blocks from the White House
ACICS is the agency that routinely "cain't say no" when it comes to accrediting marginal institutions, but it has its pride and appears to be simultaneously irritated with BAU and unwilling to kill it.
https://cis.org/North/More-Embattled-TurkishOwned-University-F1-Visa-Holders