You receive an email from one of your academic advisees who is attempting to combine a major in your college with a major in another college. He had filed all the paperwork to enroll in both programs, and he has your permission and permission from an advisor at another college. He is scheduling courses on track for both degrees. He writes in distress, saying that the petitions for exceptions to degree requirements that the other college and department had records and wants to rescind some of the exceptions. He has talked with the assistant to the dean in the other college, and she was not helpful. His advisor from the other college is reluctant to disagree with the new chairperson. The student feels frustrated. Until now, he believed he would be able to graduate at the end of the next semester with both majors.
What are your options for advising the student? What key stakeholders should be involved in the discussion?
What political implications do you need to consider?
