{"id":2886,"date":"2018-06-11T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:21:28","slug":"why-cant-our-degrees-be-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/06\/11\/why-cant-our-degrees-be-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t our degrees be in English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw061118-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2882\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw061118-2-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Why can't our degrees be in English? [C'MON MAN BC]\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw061118-2-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw061118-2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why can&#8217;t our degrees be in English? [C&#8217;MON MAN BC]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because tradition, the Wall suspects&#8211;lots of colleges and universities do it, and use pretty much the same language. Here&#8217;s a brief history of BC&#8217;s diplomas from 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-diploma1\">bit.ly\/bc-diploma1<\/a>. The official English translation is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-diploma2\">bit.ly\/bc-diploma2<\/a>. Think of it this way: if a time machine dumps you out at the University of Paris in 1302 your diploma will still get you into grad school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because tradition, the Wall suspects&#8211;lots of colleges and universities do it, and use pretty much the same language. Here&#8217;s a brief history of BC&#8217;s diplomas from 2013. bit.ly\/bc-diploma1. The official English translation is here: bit.ly\/bc-diploma2. Think of it this way: if a time machine dumps you out at the University of Paris in 1302 your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/06\/11\/why-cant-our-degrees-be-in-english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why can&#8217;t our degrees be in English?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}