Mel’s Law

This bill requires colleges and universities that receive federal student aid money to create rules for giving degrees to students who die before graduating. The school must give a posthumous degree to a dead student who was enrolled in a degree program, died before finishing it, and had good enough grades to graduate at the time of death. The bill also says that accrediting agencies cannot consider how many posthumous degrees a school gives when deciding whether to accredit that school.

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