A school I attended part-time evening and weekends only for about a
year and a half based on their published policies and procedures
(available on www.cod.edu) has taken a few positions if had been
published I would not have attended the school at all in response to,
and which I was wondering if anyone knows of any answer to.
The school claims that students have no rights at all to their
academic transcripts, and that any administrator at the school, during
or after attendance, without due process, without even informing the
student why the action was allegedly taken, may place a permanent hold
on that student's transcripts, making them unavailable for life.
This was also done after I had resigned from this school I no longer
attended at the time either, due to a long-running problem with an
administrator resulting from seeking assistance from her office, which
over the 9 months following turned into things like this.
The school in general also claims that despite what they publish on
the internet and elsewhere, that they do not in fact have to follow
any procedure or guideline, and that the students in practice have no
rights at all, as they do not have to allow due process, recourse,
information, appeal, or anything else, in what they practice as a
system and use of subsidy that is entirely at the discretion of the
administrators of the school.
Any comment on this position and set of claims by the school, would be
welcome.
I also think the public should be warned if this position regarding
the ability to just take away the transcripts of any current or former
student without due process, without even claiming a cause much less
stating one or being restricted to cause, etc., is the current state
of the law as the entire system then breaks down as the purchasers of
post-secondary education have no necessary legal right to it under
these conditions.
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