Hurrah! About diplomas, our voices have been heard!

I received this from a graduate of Goddard. Someone who was just as passionate about the diploma's as the rest of us.


Dear Friends, Staff, Colleagues and Faculty, As a community that supports higher education, innovation, collaboration, reflection and grows if you will resolvers of conflict, I am very happy to say that our voice/voices have been openly heard by our administration. We have all been voicing our concerns, opinions, creative ideas, collaborative solutions and yes frustrations over the change in the diploma design at Goddard College. Julie Martin has asked me to communicate to the MFAIA community that the registrar's office is in the process of confirming how they will be making the changes to our diplomas. The registrar's office is currently working on a solution for applying the embossed raised seal just as previous diplomas, presenting them in a standard folder with a printed seal on it, and changing the font as suggested for the names and dates. I hope that our program director will be signing our diplomas as well. As of right now, I don't have the answer to that question. I believe that this issue has truly been a collaborative effort on everyone's part. This is refreshing and exciting to me personally and communally. Why? Because it gives me and I hope you all hope for so much more, on so many levels, and renews the possibilities we have to resolve so many different situations. Thank you to everyone on both sides of the coin who wrote emails, offered suggestions, listened and expressed their passions, support and frustrations in this important rights of passage into the world a new. Sincerely, Nancy