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[quote=Anonymous]Here’s another example. I posted this on another chat as well.  My friend’s daughter failed a couple classes during covid lockdown era.  She needed to file an academic appeal to continue on at the University.   Her appeal was denied. She just needed to retake a couple courses that would equal one extra semester.  They sent her an email telling her that she was terminated.  She was never allowed to meet anyone in person. They said while they were sympathetic to the challenges of the covid era, her request to retake those classes wasn’t “compelling”, and that they notified immigration and canceled her visa, and she needed to leave the country within 30 days.   Think carefully about this for your student.   This was not a troublesome student or a demanding entitled family.  This was a young woman who was never in any kind of trouble in high school, reliable, mature, good grades. She had a very difficult time with lockdowns and succeeding with online learning as a brand new student.   The University is not sensitive to extenuating circumstances AT ALL.  Everything that’s not following protocol is a punishable offense, no in between. They expelled her! I don’t think it’s a case of naive Americans expecting gentler treatment, it’s that we expect professional treatment from educational professionals. Their strategy was to expel her and then go silent, they said her parents could get a lawyer but they refused to meet, talk, explain…. All she needed was an extra semester.   All those hoops that family jumped through to get her there during covid, she was locked into her dorm room for a year then expelled when her grades were bad. They blamed her, and said she should have known enough to request a leave of absence at the time.  But she didn’t even realize she was failing until after it was too late to request a leave of absence.  They don’t care about that detail either.  It’s a huge weakness on the part of the university- they either don’t have the ability to make changes to their policies, or they don’t care.  They’re supposed to be #1 now, and I’m sure it’s great there as long as nothing unexpected happens.  If it does, forget it.  [/quote]

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