I faced discrimination, abuse and persecution at
the University of Northern
British Columbia when I was studying
there towards my Bachelor of Science in Nursing. This happened because I
am an immigrant English Second Language student and a single mother.
What UNBC does to some of its nursing students is
horrible. Much of it seems to be
attributable to personal dislike by particular UNBC faculty members.
Even though I was one of the top nursing students, a
new instructor, Khaldoun Aldiabat, in my last course before graduation (NURS 440 community health
nursing - practicum) failed me with the direction and support of
the chair of UNBC's School of Nursing, Martha
MacLeod.
UNBC consistently supports the chair of UNBC’s School of Nursing, Martha MacLeod,
no matter what she and some of her faculty members do to nursing students. UNBC officials turn a deaf ear to students'
complaints unless the student can afford to get a lawyer involved. Not surprisingly, since 2011 UNBC has
forbidden students from employing lawyers during the appeal process.
In 2012, even before I submitted my documents for
the appeal of my failing grade in NURS 440, I was informed that they would fail
me. I appealed and was, as expected, rejected.
This failure in NURS 440 meant that I could not graduate with my
Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Failure also prevented me from writing my
Registered Nurse exam and receiving my license allowing me to work as a registered
nurse. In turn, that caused me to lose the registered nurse job I had
been promised in one part of the hospital.
Now, instead, I owe a huge student debt with
no means of repaying it -- or of supporting myself and my child. I cannot afford a lawyer or the other legal
expenses which would be associated with a court case against UNBC, yet without
legal representation, I am unable to defend my rights against UNBC and obtain
my registered nurse degree.
UNBC
waited until the end of my nursing training program to fail me in the last
course, thereby maximizing their revenue, the bank’s profit, and my student debt.
In Canada
provincial governments granted a privilege to universities which allowed chairs of nursing schools to fail
students for “personal unsuitability”
-- which can rarely if ever be objectively distinguished from personal dislike
of a nursing student. Should not personal suitability be an employer’s judgment call -- even more so
when many nursing faculty members do not share the chair’s jaundiced view?
Please help me get my nursing degree from UNBC, so I can find a job and pay back my student debt.
You can sign my petition by clicking here.
Thank you for your support, and please pass this petition on to others to sign.
To know more about how UNBC has
mistreated me, follow this link
http://howunbcdestroyspeopletomakemoney.blogspot.ca/2013_08_01_archive.html
http://howunbcdestroyspeopletomakemoney.blogspot.ca/2013_08_01_archive.html
