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Pan-America Security Check
Improvement Committee for Chinese Students and Scholars
Joined Universities already:
Arizona State Univ. |
Boston College |
Brandeis Univ. |
Brown University |
California Institute of Technology |
Colorado State Univ. |
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center |
Columbia University |
Cornell Univ. |
Duke University |
George Washington Univ. |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Illinois Institute of Technology |
Indiana University |
Iowa State Univ. |
Michigan Tech. Univ. |
Mississippi State Univ. |
MIT |
Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
New
Jersey Institute of Technology |
New York State Psychiatric Institute |
North Carolina State University |
North Texas CSSA Union, which include Univ. of Texas
at Arlington, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Univ. of Texas at
Southwestern Medical Center, Southern Methodist Univ. and
Univ. of North Texas |
Northeastern Univ. |
Northwestern Univ. |
Peking University Philadelphia Alumni
Association |
Penn State University |
Princeton Univ. |
Purdue University |
Queens college |
Rice University |
rockefeller Univ. |
rohode island |
Rutgers University |
Springfield, Missouri University |
Stanford University |
stevens it |
SUNY Maritime |
Syracuse University |
Texas, A&M |
Tufts Univ. |
Univ. bridgeport |
Univ. of Akron |
Univ. of Arizona |
Univ. of California at Berkeley |
Univ. of California at Los Angeles |
Univ. of California at Santa Cruz |
Univ. of Chicago |
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder |
Univ. of Conn. |
Univ. of
Florida |
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
Univ. of Kentucky |
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Univ. of Maryland, College Park |
Univ. of Mass., Lowell |
Univ. of Miami |
Univ. of Michigan |
Univ. of Mississippi |
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln |
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Univ. of Oklahoma |
Univ. of Oregon |
Univ. of South California |
Univ. of South Carolina |
Univ. of Texas at Austin |
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch |
Univ. of Utah |
Univ. of Virginia |
Univ. of Washington |
Univ.of South Florida |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
University of Penn |
Vanderbilt Univ. |
Virginia Tech. | |
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Acting Committee:
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Case Collection and CSSA Outreach
Section:
Ying Tao(Medical Informatics),Rui Zhao(Business),
Yuhong Jiang(MIT), Zhang
Bei(Southern Illinois
University)
Business Writing and Research
Section:
Xu
Zhang(Sociology), Ke Xu(Journalism), Mike Ren(Economics)
Xiangjin Song(U.Penn),
Chang Tan(UT,Austin)
Internal Coordination:
Hanfei
Yan(Physics)
Web Development:
Helen Xu(Barnard), Li Shu(Computational Physcis),
Ruchuan Liu(Chemistry),
Lexing Xie(EE), Haoqiang Zheng(CS)
Legal Counsel: Lorance
Hockert and Rachael Yu, Attorneys at law
The committee is always open to those with warm hearts
and sense of responsibilities! Want to contribute to the action or join
the committee, or for general information, please contact cucssa@columbia.edu
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Why we do this? |
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We have been concerned about the visa security check issue for a while,
since many of our friends could not come back from China on time. After
consulting various resources, we developed a relatively complete proposal,
including the pre-departure check suggestion, to ACSSNY. Leaders of ACSSNY
had a constructive meeting with US congress and Department of State
(DOS).
Recently, we have been receiving increasing inquiries of
this issue from desperate students and scholars. They also expressed their
encouragement to us, and hope that we, CUCSSA, can stand out for them. We
then realized that we need to contribute our time, energy, practical
strategies and real actions right away, instead of creating ideas only.
This time consuming and energy demanding task needs more dedicated hearts.
It's exciting to see that this did not become our obstacle. Many CUCSSA
committee members and those having suffered from the long time check and
got back to US showed great enthusiasm, and willing to offer their
hands.
During the time building this web site, we also found some
discusssion groups online have already done great jobs. We all understand
that we need to concentrate our information and resources, and organize a
dedicated team so that we can more efficiently move this action ahead. We
believe: Together we can make a difference.
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What are our goals? |
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We have three goals:
First, build a complete visa
check information center, so that people can learn more about how
important and urgent the situation is.
Second, push related
governmental agencies to streamline the visa check process, so that
checkees can track the status of their visa applications.
Third,
appeal for a pre-checking. Foreign students and scholars request security
check before they leave USA, so that there can be no more desperate
waiting for visa check results in their home countries. We think that this
is a perfect solution, without any compromise in either US home land
security or American scientific research and education. |
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Proposed Steps |
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First, collect checkees' information, as complete as possible including
personal suffering in each case. (within first two
weeks)
Second, write an official report on the seriousness of the
situation, the damages to checkees, universities, US higher education, and
our suggestions. The report will appendix with complete checkee
information and statistics. (within the first two or three
weeks)
Third, present the report to all universities and academic
societies, asking for signatures of university presidents, professors and
congressmen.
Fourth, press release, find any efficient channels to
US president, congress, DOS, and any other related government agencies to
solve this issue. |
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Disclaimer:
We understand tackling this issue completely in a short
time is not easy. However we want to try our best at least to provide some
sort of support, to make our voice visible, to show our concern and care
to those who suffer from the security check policy. If you want to
contribute your time to this action, or have any suggestion or just want
to talk to us, please email to cucssa@columbia.edu. Thanks!
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