u/MaterialSilver2610

Hey everyone, I’m honestly super concerned about everything going on at UoPeople. I logged in today just to make sure everything was on record and that I was still on track. Next term is supposed to be my last term in the capstone series before I finally graduate, but when I checked my degree progress today, I saw that I’m suddenly lacking credits for free electives.
Apparently, a major elective requirement has been added, which was not there before this term—at least not in my case. I already have 122 credits, and after completing my final 6 credits of the capstone, I’ll have 128 credits when I graduate. Now, adding another 15 credits means I would have to take five additional classes.
Even if I take four classes in a term, that would push my graduation back by at least two additional terms, and with graduation documents apparently coming a term after completion, this could delay my graduation by a significant amount.
Honestly, this is incredibly frustrating. I understand that universities can change degree requirements, but implementing new requirements on students who are already at the very end of their degree is extremely unfair. These changes should not suddenly be applied to students who have already completed almost all of their requirements under the previous curriculum.
And this isn’t even the first time this has happened. Last term, they added a new Health Science major course that replaced an older course. I had already completed the old course, yet I had to fight through multiple emails, WhatsApp chats, and conversations just to get them to count the class toward my degree progress. I shouldn’t have had to do that in the first place. It was not my mistake that the university changed the course requirement after I had already completed it.
At this point, I’m genuinely worried about where this leaves students who are close to graduation. If requirements can keep changing at the last minute, what guarantee do we have that another requirement won’t suddenly be added before we graduate?
Students who have already completed courses and are progressing under the requirements that existed when they enrolled should not be forced to keep chasing a moving target. There needs to be some form of protection or grandfathering for students who are already near graduation.
I really hope UoPeople addresses this because it is incredibly frustrating to be told, essentially, that after completing 122 credits and being one term away from graduating, I may suddenly need 15 more credits because of a requirement that wasn’t there before.

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