Damaged Diploma

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by manny00, Sep 22, 2007.

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  1. manny00

    manny00 Member

    Hello,

    A few years ago I had my Regents College (Excelsior) diploma ruined after a flood. Like a fool I had placed it in a lower drawer that was completely flooded after a storm. Needless to say It looks like hell. Does anyone know if I can get it replaced? I tried calling Excelsior today with no luck. I guess I called to late.
     
  2. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!


    I am sure you can replace it. I am not 100% sure about college diploma, but I had replaced my High School Diploma before. Good Luck!!!
     
  3. jayncali73

    jayncali73 New Member

    Here is what I got when I asked Excelsior about a replacement diploma:

    "Graduates are entitled only to one diploma, there is not an option for additional diploma's".

    Maybe you will have a better excuse than mine (I lost mine in a move) and they will help you out???
     
  4. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!


    What's about replacement? Just print one for your own because the signature on the diploma is not real INK anyway.
     
  5. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    I once surveyed a bunch of schools on this matter. Out of 20 registrars who responded, 15 would routinely replace diplomas (although almost always with the current school signatures*), 2 would do it for legal name changes only, and 3 wouldn't do it at all.

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    * That's why my Berkeley diplomas have Ronald Reagan's name instead of the original Earl Warren. Such is life. At least they don't say Schwarzenegger.
     
  6. nobycane

    nobycane New Member

     
  7. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    What's about this? It is a dumb idea; scanning your diploma and save it as an electronic copy. Actually, there is no such thing as a dumb idea...only dumb person/people.:rolleyes:
     
  8. pr0xy

    pr0xy New Member


    yeah man -- since the Air Force started implementing the whole electronic records management, that's what I do with all my documents. It really helps out too.

    manny00, if you're out of options, you can might check out services such as those. these firms provide replica diploma's from universities around the world:

    http://www.diplomaxpress.com/
    http://www.diplomamakers.com/store/home.php?xid=2315cb13b465f934416b15eb5e65b071
     
  9. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    What an idiotic policy. Charge a big fee, sure, but don't just tell alumni they're SOL.

    Guess you're not contributing to the endowment this year?

    -=Steve=-
     
  10. sentinel

    sentinel New Member


    There are legal means by which diplomas can be duplicated, usually to protect the original while still being able to display the duplicate in your home or office. Check with your local business services outlet such as Kinkos or The UPS Store, for example.
     
  11. dlkereluk

    dlkereluk New Member

    At Athabasca, for example (in following up on Dr. Bear's reply) there is a written policy regarding replacement. Needless to say, there is the omnipresent fee of 60 clams.
    http://www.athabascau.ca/policy/registry/parchmentreplacementpolicy.html

    Really quick research on my part tends to indicate that a good number of institutions around me provide replacement parchments for the circumstances that the original poster wrote about, provided of course that a fee was paid.

    I can't quite figure out why Excelsior will not cooperate, especially if they received funds to cover the expenses of providing a replacement parchment.
     
  12. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    dkereluk: "I can't quite figure out why Excelsior will not cooperate, especially if they received funds to cover the expenses of providing a replacement parchment."

    I wonder if it has to do with identity theft issues. There have been cases in which someone requested a replacement diploma . . . and turned out to be an imposter with the same name as the real graduate. One major such case involved the then-on-campus hospital, Cowell, on the Berkeley campus. Someone requested a duplicate M.D. diploma from a graduate with the same name, as well as transcript copies, and used them to get a medical staff job at the hospital, in pediatrics.
     
  13. dlkereluk

    dlkereluk New Member

    I understand your point, but it seems to me that if security a concern (as it should be), there might be ways around it. Again, I will bring up an example from Athabasca. When sitting on a committee that was struck to deal with the issue of coming up with photo ID, a few people raised the issue of how we could determine if the picture sent in by a student was in fact that person--not unlike the issue that you raised about the person that fraudulently obtained the duplicate medical degree. My suggestion was that the picture be signed by a guarantor (ie: doctor, lawyer, minister of religion, or other "respected" professionals in the community, that have known the person for a few years) in a similar fashion to the passport application process. Perhaps this, when coupled with a "Statutory Declaration" or affadavit might work. In such situations, a document could be drawn up whereby a person would declare that he/she lost his/her parchment, another person would verify that the student seeking a new parchment was in fact who he/she said he was, and finally, a third person would take this all under oath to add an extra layer of safety, so to speak. It's not foolproof, but it certainly would provide a means for those who honestly need a replacement parchment.

    (Sorry for the craptacular grammar and writing style. What appears above is one of my 2 am wonders...:) )
     
  14. RoscoeB

    RoscoeB Senior Member

    I had both my graduate and undergraduate diplomas replaced. They were signed by the current school presidents. I had to pay a fee, but don't recall the amount.

    Roscoe
     

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