Accounting Student Graduation Requirements Dispute
Accounting Graduation Requirements
A college has the right to from time to time change its curriculum to include reasonable requirments Eurycleia Partners, LLP v Seward Kissell, LLP, 12 NY3d 553 (2009). However, the bulletins, regulations, and written guidelines created by a college establish an agreement between the parties Tedeschi, 49 NY2d at 660. There was an implied contract between the parties, which would include the need to communicate changes regarding the implied contract to either of the parties. The student, Marcia Mapp, would not, of her own accord, be aware of any changes to the student handbook, nor would she necessarily be aware that a new handbook was produced during the time she was not enrolled in accounting classes as no notices were sent to that effect (Leonard Eidlisz, Appellant, v. New York University...
2009 NY Slip Op 02826 [61 AD3d 473]. Although the secretary was new to the college, she could be expected to verify with other staff that the information she was letting the student photocopy was accurate, or the secretary could have cautioned the student to seek verification on her own. The length of employment of a staff person may not be sufficient to release the college of its responsibility for the actions of that agent. The question is whether the parties satisfied their respective obligations under such implied agreement, and "there exists an implied contract between the institution and its students such that if the student complies with the terms prescribed by the institution, he will obtain the degree which he sought" (Matter of Olsson v Board of Higher Educ. Of City of N.Y., 49 NY2d 408, 414 [1980]. In Matter of Olsson v Board of Higher Educ. (49 NY2d…
