HAMMOND, Ind. (AP)
- Some Purdue University Northwest students are angry that the school’s
diplomas are being changed to specify that they graduated from a Purdue
satellite campus.
The Hammond campus’
diplomas have historically included a bold header in black and gold letters
reading “Purdue University.”
But school
officials announced Friday that starting in May 2019 the diplomas will read
“Purdue University Northwest.”
Twenty-year-old
junior Kate Franklin says prospective Purdue Northwest students are told
they can get a Purdue University degree at lower cost by living at home and
commuting, but now that’s “totally changed.”
She and other
students planned a Monday protest of the change.
School spokesman
Doug Clark says it’s just a design change. School diplomas currently say
they were earned in Hammond, although that text is at the bottom the
diploma.