So I attend Dallas Baptist University. It’s a private school and I’m about to graduate with my bachelors. Are they allowed to stop me from walking and joining the commencement ceremony for not paying my tuition. I owe 9k. I’ve never heard a school to do that. I understand I would have to wait for my diploma until I pay it off. But not being able to walk? That’s ridiculous
Honestly, it doesn’t seem that ridiculous. The University can use prohibiting you from walking as an incentive to help start paying that off.
If you didn’t pay for your food, can you demand that you be fed?
If you didn’t pay your tuition, can you demand to be allowed to walk?
@UTforMe What is ridiculous is that this is a real topic. You cannot be serious.
If it is real, then not only will you not be able to walk the stage, but you will not be issued a diploma nor receive a transcript (most employers will ask for this) until all financial obligations are met. In most cases I am familiar with, universities require students “fulfilling all financial obligations to the university” is a stated graduation requirement in both the undergraduate and graduate course catalogs. .
Having said that, a little google helped me to find this at DBU. http://www3.dbu.edu/academics/min_req_bachelors.asp
“No student will be allowed to participate in the graduation exercises of the University until all of the above requirements for graduation have been completed and all outstanding financial obligations have been met”.
No, you are the one being ridiculous.
Almost every school I know of will do that. They provided you with a service. You didn’t pay for it. They will hold it for you until you do pay. It’s how the entire world works.