Do All American Universities Hire Criminals?
Not many people have heard of the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) but the mere fact that it is ‘American’ means a lot, to a lot of people. I’m from Serbia and I’ll tell you one thing about its educational system: it’s pitiful. Professors aren’t paid well, and as a result experienced people don’t have an incentive to teach. Corruption is abundant, so a lot of graduates unconventionally obtained their diplomas. Aside from these, there are loads of other problems. I study at AUBG because it’s an American university and hence it’s better than anything Serbia could offer. Or so I thought.
A week or two ago, members of AUBG’s student media published a couple of articles about Vladislav Tambourkovsky (or Vladislav Tambourkovski, which is another way of spelling his name) who is actively teaching business at AUBG. Apparently, he got convicted of embezzlement in a Macedonian court and was sentenced to five years in prison. If you consider that the court issued an arrest warrant for him, he’s not just a criminal; he is a criminal on the run.
In September 2007, a criminal on the run started teaching at AUBG. The question is: was AUBG’s administration aware of this fact when they hired him, or did the hiring system completely break down, allowing them to hire a business professor who just happens to be convicted of fraud.
In case the administration didn’t know, why aren’t they doing anything about it now, when the student media so kindly informed them? And if they knew, I have to ask: Do all American universities hire criminals?
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He He, Despite the fact you are in EU? Look on it from the brite side: If you are taught by criminals, you are going to be up to the task to beat the system. Do you know who is the founder of University you are attending, exactly. If you can’t quote the source of your info or give us the link for this (I have found the sentence “AUBG is a private American-style liberal arts university” but this of no use!) than you are partialy to blame for having profesor “butterhead” teaching you. But all of those facts are to be looked upon from a wider wiew, if you ask me, if he did a fraud for a several milion if nothing else, he is worth listening too(or avoid and recognize similar situation). Welcome to the real world. Hip flip huray!
If you are looking at things from that perspective he can’t teach us how to beat the system because he got caught. Yes, he is not in jail but he will get arrested the next time he enters Macedonia.
Am I blind, or this Pile guy is too smart to post comments on Serbian blog?
Pile, I didn’t get it: how can I be blamed for this?
and you posted this on.. let’s see.. oct. 18. which is also, the day after we all received an email from the president. and a lot more was known about the whole thing than you appear to be aware of.
the answer to your question is as simple as: aubg’s hiring procedures *did not* involve checking (non-academic) background information about adjunct professor candidates. yes, they are reviewing the hiring procedures. and in case you’re still not following my lead, no, they didn’t know about the conviction. and yes, they should have.
aubg’s reputation has gone down di down and that largely depreciates our diplomas.
you might want to consider balancing your unargumented generalizations and the tendency to particularize like and idiot, imo.
luff, thank you very much for your comment. Lets just say I expected I and was hopping for a reaction like this (I admit it, my lack of argumentation was meant to provoke).
I also owe you my gratitude for answering my questions and now I have one for you: do you think that “reviewing the hiring procedures” is enough? Don’t you think that more could, and should, be done to save AUBG’s reputation?