[nabs-l] Advice needed

[Karl Martin Adam]

Hi bridget,

Can you give us some more information about what this course is 
and exactly what happened?  Without knowing exactly why you were 
dropped from the program and what you can and cannot take it's 
difficult to give useful advice.  Being dropped from a program 
for a health problem would be entirely reasonable as long as the 
problem is permanent and prevents you from doing what you have to 
do to complete the program, but if it's for some other reason, 
then that's of course ridiculous.  As others have said, what your 
adviser says is irrelevant because you can take whatever courses 
you want unless you're talking about a departmental advisor, who 
does have the authority to remove you from a program.  If this 
persists, you should go up the chain of authority.  First talk to 
the advisor again and see if you can straiten things out.  If 
that doesn't work, go to the department chair, and if that 
doesn't work, go to the dean.  Whatever you do don't start off by 
going straight to the provost or president; that just makes you 
look like a trouble maker who isn't smart enough to use proper 
procedures.  You might end up talking to the upper levels of the 
administration, but make sure you've gone through all the lower 
levels first.

Best,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Bridget Walker via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: "nabs-l at nfbnet.org" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:50:54 -0500
Subject: [nabs-l] Advice needed

Hi everyone,

What would you do if you had a medical situation come up which 
prevented you from completing a course. You did not start the 
course and it would not prevent you from graduating. You have the 
opportunity to take the course in the spring but, your adviser 
believes you do not want to even though you have told them 
repeatedly you want to. They dropped you from the program and 
said you can't take courses from that selection anymore only 
because of a health problem.
The dean has no problem with it. What is your next move?
I know this is worded weird but, come on I started having 
neurological issues which prevented me from doing excessive 
amounts of work.
I have to fix this ASAP. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,
Bridget

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