Boston University will begin approving the issuance of degrees to students who die before completing

[soothsayer]

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BREAKING: Effective this Fall, Boston University will begin approving the issuance of degrees to students who die before completing their college education.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Will be a plus in the job market.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. being dead or getting a degree?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The knowledge that I could get my degree posthumously would be

a great incentive for me to return to my college campus this fall. I'm curious, though, how many credits you have to have completed as a live person to get the degree after you're dead. Can you get the degree only if you croak in your senior year, or halfway through college, or any time after your tuition check clears the bank?

[Newest Reality]

4. And you won't even have to minor in morbidity.

[sl8]

5. Choose cremation and you'll get 1500 degrees. n/t

[soothsayer]

6. Ouch!

But funny

[MissB]

8. You might

Burn in a fiery hell for that one.















But I laughed.

[Renew Deal]

12. lol

[CTyankee]

7. It's weird but could be a kind of condolence to the student's family and could be listed as having

earned the degree in the obituary. But maybe they are hoping for a legacy gift or a gift so large it gets a "naming" opportunity, like one of the school's departments or the athletic center.

[MissB]

9. It is weird but overall it's a good move

I’d really hate to see a spike in college student deaths.

[xmas74]

10. This has happened for years at many institutions.

Students die in wars, they die from cancer, they die in tragic car accidents. Sometimes a family member petitions, sometimes friends of the student. I attended a university exercise years back where one student with CF passed 2 weeks before commencement. Her photo was on a chair where she would have sat and her mother was allowed to cross the stage to accept.

Most schools already allowed for something like this with petition. With covid they've unfortunately realized they need to streamline the process and cut through the tape.

[Renew Deal]

11. Well, that's one way to get out of writing that last report.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. The last semester of my senior year I had three papers due the same day.

Death seemed like a distinct possibility, and at one point even an improvement.