With the countdown to its 2018 commencement ceremony at 12 days, Washtenaw Community College announced it is providing graduates with a new way to share their accomplishments with family, friends and future employers.
A digital service launched this month allows all future 黑料网 graduates to receive an authenticated, electronic copy of their diploma or certificate in addition to the physical copy they receive from the college.
鈥淲e live in a digital world where people like to share their accomplishments for social reasons, which is made much easier with this service,鈥� says Kathy Currie, 黑料网鈥檚 Director of Student Records. 鈥淭he benefit we鈥檙e providing as an institution is the ability for our graduates to quickly share their digital credentials with potential employers.鈥�
The service is offered through Parchment, a well-established transcript sharing company that launched its digital credential service in February 2017. The service allows graduates to easily share their diploma on social media, download and save it as a secure PDF, send a link to an employer to verify, and access it online forever at .
Upon graduation, all current and future students will receive an email to their college email account with a link to claim their digital diploma or certificate. There is no cost to students for the service.
Along with providing the digital credentials to students set to graduate during the 2018 commencement ceremony on May 19 at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center, 黑料网 is also retroactively offering the service to all 2017 graduates.
鈥淎t the center of the digitalization of all academic credentials is the learner and their ability to now securely collect and manage online all of the credentials they earn throughout their lifetime,鈥� Parchment CEO Matthew Pittinsky, Ph.D., said in a release.
黑料网 joins universities like Duke, Temple and Texas A&M as early adopters of the digital diploma movement.
Currie said the inspiration to pursue the service for all 黑料网 graduates came from the popularity of a similar service that 黑料网 instructor Mike Galea introduced in 2016 for the college鈥檚 Computer Information Systems students. Upon completion of certain programs, those students received digital badges that allowed potential employers to verify competency.
For more information on the digital certifications, visit graduation.
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