Update: NYU has committed to ensuring a timely degree conferral!

  • van: Anna H
  • ontvanger: NYU Steinhardt School

UPDATE: Since the posting of this petition, NYU has committed to ensuring a timely degree conferral. Thank you to all who contributed to this dialogue!

Dear Steinhardt and NYU Administration,


We are the Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling graduate students at Steinhardt's new online program Counseling@NYU. We are the face of the school to prospective students: As the first wave of students, we will shape the program's reviews in public forums.

We are writing regarding an issue that is of great concern and distress to us, and that we request to be addressed with urgency.

We entered the program with an understanding that when we completed our education, we would be armed with the tools necessary to commence employment in our field directly thereafter.

We were therefore blindsided when we recently received an email from the program informing us that those of us completing our coursework in June would have to change our graduation registration from Spring to Summer - and that we would have to wait until September for the conferral of our degrees.

Without our degrees, Mental Health Counselors cannot apply for a limited permit, without which we cannot legally work as counselors. Depending on state requirements, many of our School Counselors across the country will also be blocked from securing jobs.

You can imagine the shock and distress that this information is causing us. We are proud to be NYU students, but the choice to attend Steinhardt is an expensive one, and had we thought that we would be barred from employment in our field for another 3+ months after completing the program, many of us would have chosen a different school. The delayed degree will cause us significant financial hardship, beyond what we had planned for when choosing to spend our tuition dollars on an NYU education.

In addition to the financial burden, this delay will also have a professional cost. Some of us have already secured jobs as counselors that are meant to start in June. If our degrees are delayed, we are at risk of losing these opportunities and potentially losing the professional connections with our intended employers and supervisors.

It seems a great injustice to be burdened with this delay, which none of us were expecting. As the first cohort, we cannot in good faith recommend the program to incoming students if this problem is not corrected so that we may obtain our degrees and working permits in a timely manner.

We request that this situation be addressed and rectified with haste, as our program completion in June is right around the corner. We thank you sincerely for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

The undersigned Counseling@NYU students and supporters

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