They may have done things differently in the 1980s, but when I got my degree four years ago I picked mine up the same day as commencement. If this guy got a
diploma that he didn't actually earn that's terrible that at the last minute something happened where it turns out he didn't actually graduate.
A man who said he graduated from Morehouse College more than 30 years ago is suing the school because the college said he never met graduation requirements. And now Morehouse is countersuing to get him to return the diploma it gave him 33 years ago.
"They can't have it back, I earned it," Terry Boyd told Channel 2's Tom Jones outside the southwest Atlanta campus.
Boyd's attorney wonders why the school gave him the diploma if it believed he hadn't met the requirements
"How do you mail something like this to someone you're professing did not complete you're requirements for graduation?" attorney Marsha Mignott said.
This all began two years ago after Boyd applied for a job paying nearly $150,000 a year and the company checked his background.
"They said they had a problem verifying my graduation from Morehouse," Boyd explained.
Discrepancy?
Morehouse said he failed an Organic Chemistry class. His transcript shows he made a D.
Boyd said he passed the class. His attorney said it appears someone changed his grade from a C to a D.
Mignott finds it odd the college would let him take Chemistry 2 if he failed the prerequisite Chemistry 1 class.
As a result, this is going to court and Morehouse wants their diploma back and understandably Mr. Boyd doesn't want to let it go. Let's hope Brother Boyd gets to keep his degree and is not forced to give up his diploma and as a result return to school again to re-earn his degree.
