The university has agreed to move the ceremonies back to December. I am honestly stunned by this result and I know it only happened because you refused to accept the change. Thank you for showing that our time matters.
July 23, 2015
Final supporters
Students planning to graduate at the end of this year were informed via SOLS message on Thursday 21st May that a number of ceremonies would be held in April next year, during the mid-session break of the autumn session. In previous years, the ceremonies have been held in December.
We are petitioning to move the graduation ceremonies (all of them) back to December, so that all students feel equal, valued and do not have to wait 5 months to gain their certificates. UOW giving us 6 months notice, after the website and student diary advertised a December graduation for all is unfair, it is unjust and it is unprofessional.
Help us make a change:
1. Sign the petition and share it!
2. Fill out the feedback form which goes directly to the uni here: http://www.uow.edu.au/student/feedback/index.html - make sure you reply to their 'cut and paste' answer
3. Keep spreading the word - the more signatures the better!
Updates
May 25, 2015
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you have stepped up to support this. If we can push this total toward one thousand signatures it will show the university that we are truly united in wanting our ceremonies back in December.
Reached 100 supporters
May 21, 2015
301 Comments
I have to start my postgraduate study in January to become a qualified solicitor. I am getting married in April and I cannot afford such an extensive delay to my graduation. I have done the hard yards, now I want what is rightfully mine.
I am very disappointed with UOW. No one in the 4th year primary cohort was consulted. I do not understand how this is in the best interest of the students or why Business, engineering and information science get preference.
This Change would mean that medicine does not graduate as a cohort as the following year we will be undertaking internships within the state, interstate and overseas. Might as well send mine in the mail if I can't graduate with my cohort!
The changes have been made so late in the year and have serious potential of adversely effecting law students and the date of their admission into the Supreme Court. Courses that do not require further study to be fully qualified in their profession should be the ones pushed back.
Having booked to be overseas from January, I'll miss my graduation ceremony. Very disappointed that the changes could not be made to effect 4th year students with time to make allowances rather than an email advising us of the changes mid-2015.
Completely ruined any chance of me being able to celebrate the graduation of my very hard four years study.
This is a disgraceful action by UoW for three primary reasons: 1) it effectively implements a two-tiered graduation system -- where more-'valued' degrees still get to graduate in December, while those of less 'value' are pushed into the darkness of Autumn; 2) of all the supposed consultation, none of it appears to be have been with the actual students affected, which suggests that student views do not matter; and 3) no advance consideration was given, where students have been planning December graduations and organising their lives around that, without any reason to think otherwise, and have now been thrown a curve ball. Students are the reason the university exists. Their concerns should be UoW's priority. Not in this case.
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The university has agreed to move the ceremonies back to December. I am honestly stunned by this result and I know it only happened because you refused to accept the change. Thank you for showing that our time matters.
July 23, 2015
Final supporters
Students planning to graduate at the end of this year were informed via SOLS message on Thursday 21st May that a number of ceremonies would be held in April next year, during the mid-session break of the autumn session. In previous years, the ceremonies have been held in December.
We are petitioning to move the graduation ceremonies (all of them) back to December, so that all students feel equal, valued and do not have to wait 5 months to gain their certificates. UOW giving us 6 months notice, after the website and student diary advertised a December graduation for all is unfair, it is unjust and it is unprofessional.
Help us make a change:
1. Sign the petition and share it!
2. Fill out the feedback form which goes directly to the uni here: http://www.uow.edu.au/student/feedback/index.html - make sure you reply to their 'cut and paste' answer
3. Keep spreading the word - the more signatures the better!
Updates
May 25, 2015
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you have stepped up to support this. If we can push this total toward one thousand signatures it will show the university that we are truly united in wanting our ceremonies back in December.
Reached 100 supporters
May 21, 2015
301 Comments
Ridiculous and disappointing.. I have family coming from overseas that have needed to take time off work and school, and I have a student visa that will expire.. So much for using the Graduation in December as a motivation and goal...
I have to start my postgraduate study in January to become a qualified solicitor. I am getting married in April and I cannot afford such an extensive delay to my graduation. I have done the hard yards, now I want what is rightfully mine.
I am very disappointed with UOW. No one in the 4th year primary cohort was consulted. I do not understand how this is in the best interest of the students or why Business, engineering and information science get preference.
This Change would mean that medicine does not graduate as a cohort as the following year we will be undertaking internships within the state, interstate and overseas. Might as well send mine in the mail if I can't graduate with my cohort!
The changes have been made so late in the year and have serious potential of adversely effecting law students and the date of their admission into the Supreme Court. Courses that do not require further study to be fully qualified in their profession should be the ones pushed back.
Having booked to be overseas from January, I'll miss my graduation ceremony. Very disappointed that the changes could not be made to effect 4th year students with time to make allowances rather than an email advising us of the changes mid-2015.
Completely ruined any chance of me being able to celebrate the graduation of my very hard four years study.
This is a disgraceful action by UoW for three primary reasons: 1) it effectively implements a two-tiered graduation system -- where more-'valued' degrees still get to graduate in December, while those of less 'value' are pushed into the darkness of Autumn; 2) of all the supposed consultation, none of it appears to be have been with the actual students affected, which suggests that student views do not matter; and 3) no advance consideration was given, where students have been planning December graduations and organising their lives around that, without any reason to think otherwise, and have now been thrown a curve ball. Students are the reason the university exists. Their concerns should be UoW's priority. Not in this case.
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Ridiculous and disappointing.. I have family coming from overseas that have needed to take time off work and school, and I have a student visa that will expire.. So much for using the Graduation in December as a motivation and goal...