A recent petition at UAB is calling for undergraduate diplomas to include students’ majors, an omission that has sparked confusion and debate among graduating Blazers.
Joshua Williams, a returning UAB graduate majoring in information systems, started the petition after realizing that most undergraduate diplomas from the Collat School of Business, School of Public Health, School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences do not list majors.
“I started out just reaching out to friends at first, just seeing if there was some interest for this — especially in the alumni community,” Williams said. “After about a dozen friends brought it up, one suggested making a Google petition. So after the first week of school, that’s what I began doing — advertising it on LinkedIn and through classes.”…