I don’t know where to post this, but I’m hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
I am currently a full-time returning student at a community college where I have been preparing to transfer to a 4 yr university, which I plan to do so in fall 2018. I last attended college in 2002, but did not receive a degree or use any financial aid. Since returning to school last fall, I’ve had to take a lot of pre-requisite courses simply because I was out of school for so long. Combined with my current classes, that puts me at just above 60 credit hours completed, and I still need about 21 credit hours to complete my associate’s before transferring. By default I was placed on academic probation until I could file an appeal, which I did, and it has been temporarily approved under the stipulation that I somehow magically complete this semester (which has completely derailed my academic plan).
While going through the process of trying to alter my fall schedule for the 7th time in two months (they really don’t seem to know what they’re doing), I found out that I’m “locked out” from making any changes to my schedule because a graduation application has been submitted on my behalf. To be clear, this has happened in the past, but it turned out to only be a pseudo warning in the system to alert myself and my advisor that I’m near completion. However, this time it is an actual alert, and someone, without my permission, submitted a graduation application for a liberal arts degree on my behalf and I’m a declared CS major. This creates a hassle with my financial aid as well as interfering with my ability to take the classes I need for my declared major this semester (and possibly graduating with the correct degree).
So, I plan on addressing this Monday when I can speak directly with my advisor and find out what is going on.
But I am wondering - can they do this? Is this even legal? Anyone know of any resources out there related to this topic?
Thanks.