Williston State ordered to stop workers program
September 19, 2012 at 9:58 am in Grand Forks Herald
The new chancellor of North Dakota’s university system has ordered Williston State College to stop housing foreign workers at the school as part of a program meant to fill temporary jobs. Continue Reading
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Gs, I could not disagree with you more. Housing anybody who is not a student at any university or college is an unsafe situation (check student murders in Fla circa 1990). Furthermore, most university students receive subsidized housing (paid by North Dakota tax payers). Why should an individual employee or private enterprise be allowed to benefit from our tax-supported housing? Moreover, I am appalled that a responsible college president would allow such a thing to occur. What was he thinking? It takes one time Gs, just one “incident” and the those in charge will not only have egg on their face, they will likely receive a visit from the state’s attorney. Glad this irresponsible mess was cleaned up before anyone was hurt.
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So in other words the photo of a trailer park taken during the winter doesn’t go along with the Herald’s story?
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imagine that.
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Hey Suture, hockey starts soon, go Sioux!
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If they aren’t attending classes they have no business living on campus. I also question how it is they are able to receive one college credit. What a racket this is. I applaud Mr. Shirvani.
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North Dakota has far too many colleges and universities for a state this size anyway, half of them should be shut down, but no one in Bismarck has the intestinal fortitude to suggest it.
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110% right Bob, just another gov’t cash-cow milking the taxpayers.
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They should shut them but they can’t because they are written into the state’s constitution. They have to change the constitution for any school to be shut.
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I believe there are a couple which do not enjoy the convenient protection of the constitution. But since they’re all about pumping money into the community, and not about education, they’ll stay open.
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Exactly right Gene!
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Gene is correct. Many of the schools enjoy too much local support. Parents bristle at the idea os sending their kids several hundred miles away for school
What needs to be looked at is the composition of the schools. We need far fewer fake 4 year schools & more schools with the size & scope of the tech in EGF.
Start at your local CC, & if you cut it, move on to UND, NDSU, & maybe one more: either Minot, Valley City, or Dickenson. If the population in the oil patch continues to support it in the long term, a 4 year school out west would make sense
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The latest figure out says that if Shirvani’s proposal for a three-tier system goes through, and admission standards at UND are raised, it will lose 51% of its current enrollment number.
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Apparently the higher education system in ND is bigger than their britches. It’s time to lose the extra weight and scale back to a smaller number.
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If higher ed were about education instead of revenue streams, they might…but it ain’t gonna happen.
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What kind of shady outfit are you working for? Where is the revenue if the schools are supported by taxpayer dollars?
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devilschild, the state accounts for about 22% of UND’s budget.
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Unreal…and yet we are forced to subsidize education for non-residents.
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“The students were given one hour of college credit for working but never had to attend regular classes at Williston State, Nadolny said.”
The crooks running the West End colleges just cannot seem to resist cheapening their colleges for “money on the side”.
LOCK THE DOORS or get proper administration. Fire the people involved in the scandals.
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There is no “racket” going on. The “old” dormitory these young foreign workers were staying in was soon to be torn down. It was the OLD one level dormitory that was no longer being used. The trailer court in the picture is NOT the housing that the story is about. The trailer park too will be gone within a year and will become a parking lot for the cities new recreation center. For me, the Williston president did the right thing in making an $400 dollars a month per foreign worker. This money goes back into the higher ed system and they were utilizing a state building that was no longer in use. Too me, that makes more sense than letting it sit idle until the state demolishes it. Nothing crooked or illegal about this. To me, it made fiscal sense.
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Regardless of the living conditions they had no business living on campus unless they were attending classes. I am familiar with the “guest worker” programs which are typically set up by agencies operating as non-profits. These “students” spend between $3000 to $6000 to come to the US on a work-sightseeing trip. They are often exploited and used as “seasonal workers” to provide businesses with cheap labor instead of getting the cultural exchange program they were promised. These students usually earn minimum to just above minimum wages. Once rent is taken out of their checks and bus fare to and from work they barely net $125 a week. These “students” are over-worked and under-paid. This is where the word “racket” comes into play.
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