VCU tightens policy to ease degree revocations
VCU’s board of visitors Thursday tightened its academic policies to make it easier to revoke degrees, such as the one wrongly granted to former Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe.
The board changed the rules at its regularly scheduled meeting without mentioning Monroe, who was awarded a bachelor’s degree from VCU in interdisciplinary studies in 2007 despite not having earned enough credits at VCU.
VCU’s board of visitors Thursday tightened its academic policies to make it easier to revoke degrees, such as the one wrongly granted to former Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe.
The board changed the rules at its regularly scheduled meeting without mentioning Monroe, who was awarded a bachelor’s degree from VCU in interdisciplinary studies in 2007 despite not having earned enough credits at VCU.
The new policy reads in part that the university “reserves the right to revoke any degree, certificate or other university recognition for cause.” VCU previously only could revoke degrees in instances of academic misconduct, and the board has said that the rule prevented the university from taking away Monroe’s degree.
The board did not take action Thursday to revoke Monroe’s degree.
Brief by The Associated Press
