FIU won't let dying woman get a degree - is there any DL school that would allow her

Just curious, FIU won't let Kristina Panagos, who has terminal cancer, obtain her degree she worked so hard for - is there any DL school that would allow her to graduate with 129 generic credits?

htttp://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/10/wsvn.cancer.diploma.affl

http://www1.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI57722/

 

Excelsior College offers a Bachelors of Arts in Liberal Studies. She can have her credits transfered and complete an information literacy course. Excelsior should exempt the information literacy course for her.

https://www.excelsior.edu/portal/page?_pageid=57,85498&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

 

Due to the media exposure, someone should contact the president of excelsior college to have the fees waived or contact the president of a university or college to make an exception and transfer all credits for a degree in liberal studies.

 

I know nothing of Florida International University, though I've heard of it on occasion. Now, I don't care to know more about it. Degrees are awarded across the nation to people who don't deserve them--from athletes who never attend class to TAs who simply act as "go-fers" for professors. This young lady deserves her degree from FIU, plain and simple. To try to justify a stupid decision with "academic ethics" is ridiculous. FIU: Shame!

basrsu

 

And, after 129 credits, why was she still not qualified for the degree?

 

One imagines that the Dean only has the power to say "No"; as with all exceptions to rules, one has to get to the people who have the power to say "Yes".

Dave

 

From what I saw on the video, she just took a bunch of credits. Nothing substantial towards a specific degree program.

 

Hey,

I have email the station about your suggestions, hope you don't mind.

Regards

 

FIU is the most blinded, close minded, and bureaucratic school ever, Many years ago when I apply for the MS in Accounting I was not accepted to the program because I score 1 point below the GMAT requirement, one point, they told me that they would consider other elements like my GPA, recommendations etc.. but the bottom line the turn me down base on 1 point, they clear stated this in their rejection letter, in any event I went to Upper Iowa since was in the same price range and the waive the GMAT due to my high GPA , I got a MBA in Accounting and serve me same. To add more to the issue I wanted to take Second Master in Taxes, Florida Atlantic University (State University) waive the GMAT since I have a Master already, FIU they say no way.

 

it looks to me like this girl is on here way out, why not just give her a degree as her last dying wish, if i was dean id give a 7 year old kid a degree if he had brain cancer and was going to die. This really shouldn't be an issue, it isn't like she is going to try to go to grad school or get a job with this degree, it is just something to make her happy on her death bed. If anything they should give her a degree because their academic advisory staff failed to put her in the right classes while she was well so that after 129 credits she would have a degree. I don't understand this schools logic, especially now that the media is involved, why they don't make up a special degree for her or find some way to give her a degree.

 

Fighting brain cancer for most of your adult life (and during college) and one-third your entire life is a "lifetime of achievement" in my book: "They don't award generic degrees and honorary degrees go to dignitaries with a lifetime of achievement."

People who have accomplished far less have had the honorary doctorate conferred...!

Dave

 

I like FAU that was a pitty not to be part of it, The MS you have to go to the Boca Raton campus, and that was not part of my plan to travel there, and for the PhD, I consider them, but you will have to be a full time student and I have to decline the idea, but the school is a 5 stars in my book.

 

VA tech conferred degrees on the victims of that unfortunate tragedy. If they had known 3 days before that the people would be killed, would they have allowed them the degree, knowing that they would have passed away shortly?

probably.

do I have a problem with it? no.

 

With 129 credits this girl should be able to get a degree. Shame on you FIU for not working with this girl.

 

Athabasca University offers a Bachelor of General Studies degree that should allow her to graduate with zero-residency requirement. With 129 credit hours she might have completed enough senior-level (300 and 400) courses.

 

shame on FIU ...

what kind of excuses does this school have to pull on this little girl ?


NBA players never attend classes but boost school revenues in sport entertainment ...get rewarded with degrees.....

 

no problem

 

In my opinion, the school denying this woman her degree is missing a great public relations opportunity and instead casting itself as a villain. It seems to me there must be another college out there willing to do the right thing and award her with a Bachelor of General Studies degree, or something similar.