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Jen Day Shaw Case Study

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Dear Jen Day Shaw, Associate Vice-President & Dean of Students,

I ask desperately that you please hear me out. All I could think of as the Student Conduct Committee, wrote my letter of failure,. Yes, letter of failure not acceptance. In reality, I am projected to be a statistic that could never graduate from a four-year accredited College or University. Eventually leading the next generation of my family into poverty and a lack of education along with myself. After four years at the University of Florida I had two options, accept the possible sanction of expulsion which will be made official in a couple weeks after you, Jen Day Shaw, the Associate Vice-President & Dean of Students finalizes and stamps it. Or, I could fight for myself being …show more content…

Including loosing my grandparents who were my last bit of familial support in 2014, being sexually assaulted causing me to have to withdraw from several classes, being rushed to UF Health/Shands emergency room, and being admitted to Meridian, a psychiatric Behavioral Institute, for a period of time. After a few visits to the Counseling and Wellness Center, I learned that everyone goes through something but your reaction to your circumstances is what is the determinative factor of your strength and future success. I could easily use these negative situations as an excuse for my actions, which would only make my situation even worse. Or I could accept my wrong doings and keep fighting for the opportunity that was given to me in 2012 when I was admitted to the University of Florida. Attending the University of Florida is not a want of my it is a necessity, words cannot explain the endless opportunities I have been awarded while being a student here. As a child it seemed like a goal that will never be achieved considering my severe circumstances of poverty. The reason I continue to stress the importance of opportunity is because without the University of Florida I do not know if the doors will open again or where I will end. But I know right here and right now I have to fight for the last hope I have in me, …show more content…

I also want to apologize for the disgrace I may have placed upon myself as a University of Florida student, your hardworking and dedicated employees and staff, as well as the legacy of the University of Florida our past ancestors have fought so hard to uphold. I am a strong believer that an individual can change for the better in any situation. The individual, being myself, am aware of my actions and wrong doings, despite the outcome, out of respect I will acknowledge every single individual that I have negatively impacted along the way. I have created a plan to ensure that I never find myself in this situation or any other similar again. Once again, please consider this letter as a token of complete honesty as I hope this alters the sanction of expulsion that has been placed upon me. I am willing to fight, dedicate, and rebuild the opportunity that is being stripped from my hands. I need with every bone in my body to graduate from the University of Florida and continue on to become more educated, eventually fulfilling my ultimate aspiration of becoming a doctor. I want to be student that will make the University of Florida proud to say I served my undergraduate term here. I want to expand and continue on the legacy everywhere I go. I sincerely apologize to you directly as well as my professors, the dean of students office, and my peers. I know I must pay for my actions

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