Lie or Mistake?

[dfrecore]

While it is plausible that changing from quarter to semester hour would have screwed over her/a lot of students, graduation is a clear process that results in an actual degree.  Leaving college with credit (in any amount) doesn't make you a graduate.

An associate degree is 90 quarter credits (60 semester hours) so if it is roughly the same set up as a 20-class associate, she would have earned 4.5 credits per course and it would have been a seamless transition.  Every 4.5 would have = 3.0 and she'd be fine.  (plus, it would be reasonable that the college wouldn't have required anyone to meet any requirements that weren't already part of their catalog)
If her college used 3.0 quarter credits, each would only come in as 2.68, which can be a problem (we've seen that often at TESU and how they handle it)

BUT- this is the smoking gun:

"Tammy Smith, coordinator of Admissions and Records at NRCC, wrote in an email on Monday the school does have dates of attendance for Dana Partin (whose maiden name is Altizer) during the fall of 1987 through spring 1996 with some enrollment breaks during that time."

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There are several CSU schools here in CA that have recently switched or are switching from the quarter system to the semester system.  They told students about it YEARS in advance, told what the date was going to be for each school, and tried to make it as seamless a transition as possible.  They spent $40M for 6 schools to make the switch.  They did not just say "we're switching tomorrow, I hope you have enough credits or you're screwed!"  This chick knew well in advance what was going on, and was most likely given a new eval showing what was going on and what she needed to do to graduate on time.  She just didn't do it.