tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86087944292151729452024-02-19T02:17:08.214-08:00 Discrimination and Abuse of Immigrant Single Mother Student Nurse at UNBCUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608794429215172945.post-42410466382744096642014-11-06T07:36:00.000-08:002017-07-19T03:21:18.527-07:00Hello!<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have started a petition addressed to the Honorable John Horgan,
Premier of British Columbia, to get my degree and my career which were unjustly
withheld from me by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the University of Northern
British Columbia </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(UNBC), and I need your help with it. </span><br />
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petition</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/hon-christy-grant-to?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_created%20%5C%20_blank" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hon. John Horgan, Premier of British
Columbia: Grant Tetyana Melnychuk her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree
which UNBC withheld through discrimination and abuse</span></a></span></u></span></td>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I took out big student loans and
worked very hard to get my registered nurse degree in order to become a
self-sufficient member of society and give my child a better life. Yet </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I faced discrimination, abuse and persecution at </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">UNBC </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">because I am an immigrant English Second Language
student and a single mother. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The UNBC School of Nursing suddenly failed me
at the end of my last course and denied me my degree even though I was
one of the top nursing students in this program. They thereby
maximized their revenue, the bank’s profit, and my student debt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This failure prevented me from writing
my Registered Nurse exam and receiving my license allowing me to work as a
registered nurse. In turn, that caused me to lose the registered nurse
job I had been promised. Now, instead of being able to support myself and
my child, I owe a huge student debt with no means of repaying it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to a lawyer, I have a human
rights case. However,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I cannot afford a lawyer or the other
legal expenses which would be associated with a court case against UNBC.
And without legal representation, I am unable to<b> </b>defend my rights
against<b> </b>UNBC and obtain my registered nurse degree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Governments have privileged
universities but failed to protect students</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> rights and interests. The biggest problem is that chairs of
schools of nursing can declare any nursing student “unsuitable” just as a
matter of personal dislike for that person. Shouldn't “suitability” be
determined by each and every employer, not by one educational administrator
pretending to have godlike powers?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unsurprisingly, UNBC consistently
supports the chair of its School of Nursing, no matter what she and some of her
faculty members do to nursing students. UNBC officials turn a deaf ear to
students' complaints unless the student can afford to get a lawyer
involved. And guess what? Since 2011 UNBC has forbidden students
from employing lawyers during the appeal process!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To know more about how UNBC has mistreated me, follow this link </span><br />
<a href="http://discriminationabuseofnursingstudent.blogspot.ca/2013/12/how-university-of-northern-british.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="yiv9137787098" id="yiv9137787098yui_3_16_0_1_1404742101101_7586" style="color: blue;">http://discriminationabuseofnursingstudent.blogspot.ca/2013/12/how-university-of-northern-british.html</span></span></span></a></div>
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my nursing degree from UNBC</span></b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, so I can find a job, pay back my student debt,
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608794429215172945.post-30445630237431726452013-12-16T01:38:00.000-08:002016-04-20T22:38:29.479-07:00How the University of Northern British Columbia has mistreated me <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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experiences of discrimination, abuse and persecution while I was a nursing
student at the University of Northern British Columbia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">On
January 13, 2010, in one of our clinical practicum placements, Sarah Hanson, my
instructor for NURS 315 (mental health nursing - practicum) told me to leave
the nursing program and forget about becoming a registered nurse because I was
an English Second Language student and a single mother, and she was going to
fail me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This threat was Sarah
Hanson</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">s
response to me after I informed her about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my inability to log into the mental health
computer training system for NURS 315 at the hospital. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> it turned out, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was not
my fault that I could not log in: someone had misspelled one letter in my name.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"> But
Sarah Hanson would not admit that she had been wrong to blame me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, she failed me. I protested,
but her action was supported by the lead instructor for that course (Lyle Grant)
and by the Chair of UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">School of Nursing, Martha MacLeod. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">As punishment for arguing about their decision to fail me, Lyle Grant
created a special learning contract for NURS 315 and together with Sarah Hanson
forced me (by threats during my clinical practicum at
Northern Health's facility) into the “learning contract” which included making
me do a module (mini-course) on “communications skills” as one of its
requirements and which was not part of this</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">
nursing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">program.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also distributed their negative
views about me to my other nursing instructors, my other clinical practicum
placements, and my classmates. They even tried to persuade some nursing
instructors in my other nursing courses to fail me. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">Repeatedly
at UNBC I experienced aggressive and hostile behavior
towards me. This included swearing, yelling at me, and calling me (in a UNBC classroom) a "fucking
English second language student." Repeatedly I was shown the middle finger
and threatened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also received abusive
or offensive phone calls at my home. Those who perpetrated the abuse have
now become registered nurses, while UNBC faculty members stood aside and
allowed this mistreatment to happen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">I retook NURS 315 in the fall of 2010 under a different instructor
and passed. I also passed all my other courses until I got to my final
practicum, NURS 440 (community health nursing), which I took from February to
April 2012. In fact, I was one of the best students in the nursing
program and received some of the highest marks. However, sometime before
the start of NURS 440, Martha MacLeod sent my file -- containing records of my
clash with Sarah Hanson and Lyle Grant in NURS 315 -- to my instructor for NURS
440, Khaldoun Aldiabat, a new faculty member lacking job security and with very
little experience of registered nursing in Canada. Initially Khaldoun
Aldiabat passed me on my midterm evaluation, but when I returned it to him
because he had forgotten to put my surname and satisfactory completion of all
assignments on it, he changed my grade to failure, and demanded that I redo the
same communications module which Sarah and Lyle had used to punish, humiliate
and fail me two years earlier. When I refused, Khaldoun Aldiabat failed
me on my final evaluation, even though the registered nurses who had actually
overseen my NURS 440 practicum had all graded my performance as satisfactory</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">. In
addition, Khaldoun Aldiabat accused me of having complained to UNBC faculty
about his poor teaching. (The complaint had actually been made by another
student to Martha MacLeod.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alone among
my classmates, I was subjected to an oral final exam of nearly two hours at
Northern Health's facility. All the rest of Khaldoun Aldiabat</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s students
had their evaluation done by electronic submission of documents. (In all
other nursing clinical practicum courses, when face to face evaluation was
done, it only lasted 15-20 minutes, not for two hours as happened in my case.)
Khaldoun never came to watch me or any other nursing student on our
practicum<b>. </b> After the due date of our midterm grades, Khaldoun
Aldiabat began changing his expectations for our assignments and failing almost
everything I submitted to him. Khaldoun Aldiabat also warned the nurses
who were overseeing my work that I was a special case and asked them to report
to him more thoroughly about me than any of the other nursing students and
pressured them. He was rude, aggressive, and displayed his problems with anger
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">In 2010 and 2012 I complained to UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s student
union, ombudsperson, Chair of UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s Undergraduate Nursing
Program (Lela Zimmer), Chair of UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s Nursing Program
(Martha MacLeod), UNBC's Dean (John Young), UNBC's Senate, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">and
the president of UNBC (George Iwama), but they all
ignored me. Moreover, the dean responsible for UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s nursing
program admitted to me that I was not the first student left without a degree
at the end of UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">s program. Only those UNBC nursing students facing failure
who were able to hire a lawyer have been able to gain at least partial redress
for their grievances; but I cannot afford a lawyer. And recently (in
2011), UNBC prohibited its students from having legal representation during the
appeal process. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">In 2012, even before I submitted my documents for the appeal of my
failing grade in NURS 440, I was informed that they would fail me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">Each year UNBC fails one or two nursing
students (out of approximately </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">100 in this collaborative nursing
program) just before graduation. Most of the graduates complete this
program with grades well below mine. Some have only a C in their theory
courses and a bare Pass in their clinical courses. Moreover, UNBC</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">s nursing program requires 136
credits to graduate, while Kwantlen</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">s
only demands 125.5 for the same nursing degree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Failure in this course, NURS 440, meant that I could not graduate with
my Bachelor of Science in Nursing and therefore could not write my Registered
Nurse exam and receive my license allowing me to work as a registered
nurse. In turn, that caused me to lose the registered nurse job I had
been promised</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">Note
how UNBC waited until the end of my nursing training program to fail me in the
last course, thereby maximizing their revenue, the bank</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">s profit, and my student debt. UNBC left me without the means of repaying my huge
student debt or of supporting myself and my child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">Yes,
Legal Aid and pro bono legal services exist, but they cannot help me. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">According to a lawyer,
mine is a human rights case, but Legal Aid only assists low income people for
family, criminal, and immigration matters and that kind of help is
limited. They will not provide legal aid to me in my situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost all pro bono lawyers or student
lawyers provide their services only to low income people who live in Vancouver
or Victoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, pro bono lawyers
only give advice and do not provide representation in court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And without legal representation, I am unable
to defend my rights against UNBC and receive my registered nurse degree<b>.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">The BC provincial government bears a share of the
responsibility for this injustice. It granted a privilege to universities which
allowed chairs of nursing schools to fail students for “personal unsuitability.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this can rarely if ever be objectively
distinguished from personal dislike of a nursing student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should n</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">o</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">t personal suitability<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be an employer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">s judgment call -- even more so
when many nursing faculty members do not share the chair</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 113%;">s jaundiced view?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 113%;">Please help me get my nursing degree from UNBC, so I can find a job, pay back my student debt</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 113%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 114%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">, </span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 113%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 114%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 113%;">and support myself and my child</span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 114%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></b></span>.</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 113%;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 114%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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