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Fang broke Tang Jun's "degree gate". Photo courtesy of CFP
Yesterday, this newspaper has been tracking the incident that the reporter attacked Tang Jun's "degree gate" (see AII8 website on July 5 and yesterday), and there has been a dramatic trend-Tang Jun sent the media a copy of the certificate of pacific western university, USA, where he received his doctorate, and admitted that this is a "third-or fourth-rate university", but it can prove his true academic qualifications.
To Tang Jun's surprise, his alma mater quickly became an online hot word yesterday-this American university, which was called "diploma workshop" by netizens, was turned out by netizens to have a large number of doctoral graduates. Managers of many domestic state-owned enterprises and institutions are impressively listed.
The initiator of this incident is still determined. Yesterday, he said in Weibo that "Tang Jun lied in front of the people of the whole country". He even said bluntly that he exposed Tang Jun's academic fraud not because he was jealous of his success, but just to expose the truth.
On the Internet, Tang Jun's "degree gate" incident has intensified. Not only "Tang Jun", "diploma" and "degree door" have become hot words in online search, but some netizens have also quickly established encyclopedia entries of "degree door".
Tang Jun's "seal" will "go its own way"
In his own Weibo, Tang Jun issued a statement, and the matter will be sealed after the response. On July 6th, 17: 29, he sent a message to Weibo, saying, "I spoke with several' friends' on the phone today, and I have said everything I need to see. I feel very relaxed! I will not be a "friend" tomorrow. Today I want to be a "friend" ... tomorrow I will go my own way. " According to the reporter's understanding to the insider, the "friend" here refers to answering the reporter's question, and Tang Jun intends to stop responding to the incident.
About three hours later, Tang Jun sent another message to Weibo, saying, "First, a doctor will be printed on my business card in the future. Second, the law will make those who fabricate facts and frame others pay the price now and in the future. Third, I am still me, and nothing has changed. Tang Jun, who goes his own way, will start your own way tomorrow ... I'm a little annoyed recently, but I won't be bored tomorrow ... "
However, compared with Tang Jun's "sealing", the majority of netizens paid more attention to the incident. Because Fang verified Tang Jun's statement that he graduated from Pacific Western University, he pointed out, "According to a survey conducted by the General Accounting Office (Gao) in 2004, the buying and selling prices of diplomas of Tang Jun's alma mater Pacific Western University are as follows: bachelor's degree, US$ 2,295; Master, $2,395; Doctor, $2,595. Pay in one lump sum. "
Tang Jun previously said in his response that he got his degree at the California branch of the school, but Fang stole the concept and thought that he was at the Hawaii branch, which has been dissolved, while the California branch is still running a school, and many celebrities have graduated from it.
According to the information found by our reporter on Wikipedia, this American university named Pacific Western University does have two campuses in Hawaii and California, but it was investigated by the US General Accounting Office as early as 2004 for fraudulent acts such as buying and selling degrees. In 2002, Hawaii began to take legal action against 66 unauthorized schools, including Pacific Western University (Hawaii), which closed four years later (2006).
On the other hand, Pacific Western University (California) was sold to a new owner in 2004 and has been operated by a new department since 2004. According to the information on Wikipedia, in March and April, 2007, pacific western university, California changed its name to Miramar University, California, and began to seek national degree certification. According to the website of California Miramar University, it is now a school focusing on "distance education and classroom guidance", and the highest degree awarded is a master's degree. Even so, it was not until 2009 that the university was awarded a degree by the US Department of Education.
Netizens gathered to investigate pacific western university.
So, what kind of school is this pacific western university? Yesterday, our reporter asked the heads of several study abroad agencies in Guangzhou, and they all said that they had never heard of the school. "What is certain is that it is definitely not a prestigious school." A person in charge of the overseas department of Guangzhou Overseas Students Service Center said. After consulting the list of regular universities in countries where China citizens mainly study, which was updated by the Ministry of Education in June this year 1, he told reporters that this university is not on the list of the United States.
"The American education system is different from ours. As long as students can be recruited, it is not difficult to set up private universities, and many of them are still not recognized by the US Department of Education. Therefore, we often remind international students and parents that it is better to call it' University' than' College'. We can't judge whether these colleges are formal in China, but we accidentally went to the' Pheasant School'. " He said.
Yesterday, this once unknown "Pacific Western University" quickly became a hot word for netizens to launch human flesh search. Many netizens pointed out after investigation that this is a "pheasant school".
Interestingly, yesterday morning, a list of four doctor's degrees in business administration offered by pacific western university, China quickly appeared on the Internet, including the name, gender, work unit and position of each graduate. Attentive netizens found that there are hundreds of people on this list, including managers of many domestic state-owned enterprises and institutions, lawyers, civil servants and even media practitioners. The netizen who showed the list joked, "Tang Jun's degree program brought out a group of unlucky alumni, and now General Tang has harmed all his alumni."
Among them, the most striking is Jin Jinyong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Times Investment Group. Yesterday, he sent a Weibo supporting Tang Jun, saying that pacific western university is a regular private university: "I prove that Tang Jun does not have the theory of degree fraud; The official documents of the China Municipal Government are now provided for the record; Pacific western university is a private regular university approved by the US government and certified by China educational institutions, and the doctoral degree awarded is true, legal and effective; Some people with ulterior motives fabricated facts and slandered their fake degrees in diploma factories, so they should be investigated by law. I reserve the right to provide the court with a full set of official documents of Tang Jun. "
Then a Weibo was posted. Some netizens inquired that Yu Jinyong's doctorate was from pacific western university, USA, and he was also one of Tang Jun's alumni.
The reporter then saw the document published by Yu Jinyong in Weibo. The document shows that the certificate issued by the Education Office of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles shows that pacific western university of the United States is qualified to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in business administration, but its school license is valid from June 15, 2002 to June 14, 2006. Some netizens immediately questioned that this certificate had nothing to do with Tang Jun, because Tang Jun got his doctorate at around 1996, and his doctorate was not a major in business administration.
Some netizens specially registered the user name of "West Pacific Alumni Association" on Weibo as a joke.
Fang, who has been holding high the banner of counterfeiting, continued to update Weibo yesterday. In response to Tang Jun's claim that the paper version of his book My Success Can be Replicated did not mention that he had obtained a doctorate from California Institute of Technology, he showed a scanned copy of the first edition of the book, which showed this statement. "Tang Jun can ask Dangdang to delete the electronic version and my success can be copied. Can you ask the CCTV host to take back the sentence' Dangdang's electronic version really says that you are a doctor of California Institute of Technology'? Can all the first printed copies of the paper version of the book be recovered and destroyed? "
Fang: I despise fake academic qualifications.
When he appeared to communicate with netizens yesterday, Fang countered that a considerable part of himself was jealous of Tang Jun's success: "I don't think he is more successful than me. I won't be jealous of a truly successful person, let alone a person who has to forge a resume. " He even lamented, "The society is not normal. The counterfeiters are embarrassed and there are countless supporters, but the counterfeiters will be hit. "
As for the netizen's question, "Have you brutally shredded the dreams of many migrant workers?" Fang immediately asked: "Is it the dream of many migrant workers to make fakes?"
Some netizens also believe that as long as they are competent for the job, what education and resume are not important. Fang Zhouzi insisted, "If you really think that education and resume are not important, why do you want to build one?" ? I don't think education is the most important thing. I never look down on Bill Gates and Li Ka-shing because of my low academic qualifications. What should be despised is fake academic qualifications, not low academic qualifications. "
With the introduction of Tang Jun's positive response, it seems that the "degree gate" incident on the Internet should come to an end, but when this traditional media has joined the reporting camp one after another, the debate about the incident on the Internet has intensified. Many netizens call themselves "Fang Ting School" and "Tang Ting School" and have had more and more in-depth discussions with many forums in Weibo.
A netizen said that Tang Jun had fallen, and there were more hypocrites.