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I was in Chapman University’s master’s/credentialing program in Orange, California.. I graduated in May 2005 with my master's degree and only needed to complete my student teaching in September of that year to get my credential. However, I was expelled from Chapman with only this one semester left to go. I had an argument with two professors regarding where I would be doing my student teaching and I walked out of the room. They accommodated every student there but me when it came to placement in their student teaching. The next day I called the Dean of the department to let him know what happened and he informed me that I was being expelled. That professor and her close associate wrote a total of eight pages of complete slanderous lies about me. It went before the Student Review Board-which was made up of four professors who work intimately with these two professors. How biased was that! The next day they voted on my expulsion. I then appealed to the provost, but to no avail. I the...See More
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Dec 28, 2009
certifiedteach In many states you can teach in private schools without a teaching certificate, so maybe you should try that route, although it won't look too good when your transcripts say "expelled" on them, and you usually have to supply transcripts for teaching jobs. I would first fight Chapman on this: if you successfully completed the MA, graduated and then ...See More
Dec 29, 2009
East End Long Islander You need to reconsider hiring an attorney and suing the school for slander, libel and whatever else applies. If you truly completed all your academic work with good grades, it makes no sense that you were "expelled" from the school. How can you have a degree when you were expelled? Something is amiss here in what you are telling us. Don't give up o...See More
Feb 5, 2010
DK Caitlin I would love for you to contact me. Something very similar happened to me with one of the Cal State schools. Please contact me ASAP. Thank you.

Sincerely, D. [email removed]

On 12/27/09, Catlin wrote: > I was in Chapman University’s master’s/credentialing > program in Orange, California.. I graduated in May 2005 ...See More
Oct 23, 2011


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