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Students

The main assignment of this class was to write a long research paper. She told us her only concern was the format of the paper not the content. A great deal of points were taken off if the paper was not correctly formatted according to APA standards. She told us to just "make stuff up as long as it was formatted correctly." I did not learn a single thing in that class. I also wrote her up on my end of class critique form as did a number of other of my classmates. However, she is still on the faculty telling her students to "just make stuff up!" --UOP Student

The red flags came up during my first class. It seemed that many of the students were inarticulate. Many could not post a DQ free of grammatical and spelling errors. This was especially shocking to me, since the forums, while not very sophisticated, do have a spell check. Not to mention, I was in a GRADUATE program. I expected more from my fellow classmates. --Former Student

I worked hard on my assignments at UoP and learned a lot from them but on occasion I wouldn't have the time to turn in a best effort and was still getting A's. This made me a little suspicious, so on occasion I would turn in crap, to test the grading. Still getting A's. --Former Student

UOP is definitely too good to be true. I have been in an accelerated classroom environment before, so I know that you can learn a subject in less than a semester if you are focused and the instruction is good. I found out on day 1 that there is no instructor, just some facilitator who posts a couple of times a week, and "grades" your assignments. I got a 100% on everything I sent in...of course that's not hard when you have assignments like a web scavenger hunt. Seriously, I have never had such an easy and pointless assignment in my whole academic life, at any level of education. --Former Student

Would I do it all over again? No – absolutely not. Would I recommend UoP to any other prospective student? Again, absolutely not. I have actually discouraged at least 10 colleagues from going to UoP. As I leave the world of academics, I wonder if the degree is worth the piece of paper it is on. --Former Student

When I enrolled, I explained to the enrollment counselor that I wanted to do Medical Transcription and/or Medical Billing. "You want to take the Health Administration Courses" she said. Only after completing one academic year, was I informed that this degree has NOTHING to do with medical billing OR transcription and that in order to do ANYTHIGN with this degree, I need a Bachelors degree, not Associates. I looked online at job openings and in order to run a medical office (which is the goal of anyone getting this degree) I will mainly need a MASTERS degree. --Former Student

I have a BSN from UOP. When I started their program I had been a nurse for over twenty years and it was before they had online learning. After the first few classes, I was amazed at how little I was learning. We all hated the study groups. For research, my study group did a project on study groups and how they attributed to the learning process. It was a quantitative study and the results overwhelming demonstrated that study groups or learning groups as they are now calling them, did not increase learning and were actually a detriment ot learning. In short, I feel I bought a BSN. --Former Student

By the time I graduated, I had retired from the Navy. I moved to another state. When I applied for leadership positions in nursing, I was not hired. Several told me that they did not believe the UOP degree was credible or I was told I "bought" a degree online. An assertion I agree with wholeheartedly. I decided to further my education. I applied to a local university and was denied admission. My BSN was lacking the necessary credits to qualify for admission. --Former Student

I dont need a degree to go into my field of choice. I WANT a degree so that I can aquire the tools necesary to provide EXCEPTIONAL service in my field of study. I did not enroll in UOP for a pay increase, I enrolled seeking knowledge. I have learned APA formatting. I have 21 credits. That is all I have learned, APA formatting. To this date I have leanred NOTHING applicable to my field of study or applicable to the career/position I am seeking. --UOP Student

I have taken 4 courses. After my first two courses, I was surprised to see how other students in my class were so poor at writing. I was reading incomplete and incoherent sentences. I was confused how they could even be considered as doctoral students... I found myself doing a lot of the heavy lifting and carrying the teams. I ended up making sure I was the last one to review and edit the damn papers. --UOP Student

My first class was a joke! We sat around played pictionary about our interests and came up with adjectives to describe us beginning with the first letter of our name! --Current Student

I graduated with at M.Ed from the UoP. I have been applying to many different schools and not getting calls back. Recently I found out why from a friend of mine that works for a school that I applied for. Reason was that as soon as the principal saw my resume and it said "UoP", he threw it away. I just wasted 18000 on this piece of "s" paper. I urge people not to go to this school unit it improves. --UOP Graduate

My job search with only the UOP degree was a joke much like yours. I had a law degree with 3 years teaching at university but that didn't seem to mean a whole lot. The state I resided wouldnt' even take the UOP degree, one of the neighboring states would accept it but wanted professionally accredited degrees. The degree will get your foot in the door but if thats all you have on the application they will toss it out. I was offered a job out of state thanks to my legal credentials but was not ready to move for something that was a second career. --UOP Graduate

I am dropping out of the MBA program after 4 classes. I have not learned a thing and I have all A's. The school is selling you a degree that will not give you the required foundation to succeed in the business world. I made the biggest mistake by enrolling.I went to a traditional university for my undergraduate degree. I have enrolled back at my former university for Business School. I learned 10x's more in my undergraduate studies than I did in the MBA program. I would never recommend that anyone enroll in a For Profit School. Run and never look back, you have too many options availble and anything worth having should not be easy. --Former Student

Employees

We were not allowed to switch students to "PDRP" (permanent drop) status. We had to beg and plead, even if the student had made it PERFECTLY CLEAR they wanted nothing to do with UoP, we were told that we had to continue to contact them and that only a written request to drop would work. We were penalized and our pay could be DECREASED for students being in TDRP (temporary drop) - even if the student was transferred from another team and was not originally our student. --Former Enrollment Counselor

Did we ever specifically mention that ECs are eligible for raises (or decreases) every 6 months? I've know ECs who received 3 decreases in a row... UoP doesn't want to get dinged for firing people who aren't "selling" enough, so they have the wage decreases to force people to quit. And that's not all they do to try and get you to quit so that they aren't penalized... [by the DOE] --Former Enrollment Counselor

I know for a fact someone enrolled an international student who failed his Berlitz test. They let him go through three nights of his first class before notifying the student he was denied enrollment. Once he was dropped they sent him a bill for the first class. Explain that to me. He was denied admission, yet he owes for the class he was not supposed to be allowed in. --Former Enrollment Counselor

I was told by an EM [manager] on one of the two Dallas campuses to just get the password for my student and edit her [financial aid application] so she could get into REG by the last day before the deadline. --Former Enrollment Counselor

Only a fool would go to AXIA. I'm not speaking about educational quality or anything like that. I'm just speaking of money! Why would you spend $10,000 (or what ever it is) for an A.A. degree? Go to your local JC/CC and make it happen. They have online course as well. Not as many but take advantage of what they have. AXIA is just a tool designed to get students to migrate to UOP when they ae done. So imagin what the online high school is designed to do. --Former Admissions Counselor

Faculty

Hi, I am an ex-faculty member, and I want to clear something up here. The faculty is treated just as badly as the students and recruiters. Faculty get tromped on by the Instructional Specialists if they make any student unhappy — that includes insisting students do the work, and giving them Ds of Fs if they don’t. We are not allowed to change the syllabus, and if we don’t hand out As and Bs our students write bad evaluations and we don’t get anymore teaching contracts. Everyone hates the faculty, but that’s because the good professors quickly see what crap this school is and get out of there. --Former Faculty

I was excited about teaching at an institution that was hyped to be a great thing for working people, especially the military. My first suspicions were raised during our "teacher orientation course", which was over a three-day period. What was the content of the course? Basically, it was Powerpoint 101, "team activities", APA format, and how to keep your students in class for four hours without causing them to jump from the 5th floor out of sheer boredom... We were required to attend a staff meeting every four months that was held on a Saturday morning from 8-12...what was the topic of these staff meetings? Just like the orientation....Powerpoint, keeping the students til 9:45, and APA format.....after about 4 of these I stopped coming because it was just a reprepetitive joke. --Former Faculty

I have finally had enough of this program. In my capacity as an online faculty member, it has become more and more apparent that this is a total waste of time for both students and faculty members. All the system has become is a gigantic chat room with students simply submitting a series of papers... Yes, there are some very good students in the program. However, most of the students that I deal with would never get admitted into a regular university. I can no longer support a program awarding "degrees" that many employers will not even accept. --Former Faculty

I have been teaching at UOP for 2 terms now, and I can testify to the utter uselessness of their degrees, and of the ridiculousness of the course content. But most importantly, there are serious issues with academic integrity. Faculty are not told to punish for plagiarism, are underpaid and do the jobs of administrators, not academics. Our grading is not reviewed, and the only processes that are supervised are trivial things like having the right signature block and posting late reminders on time. --Current Faculty

From August 2005 to November 2006 I was an instructor at UOP. After teaching thirteen courses I was terminated because my grading was "too strict." In four classes the students applauded me after the final class session, and many said I was the best instructor at our location. The majority of students and teachers are motivated. However approximately 30% of both the teachers and students are a complete joke. There are no academic admission standards. I had many students who couldn't put an intelligible sentence together. Students expect to get an "A," and when they don't they complain to the administration. The administration then drops not-to-subtle hints that they expect most students to get that "A." My advice to prospective students is - don't waste your money. Go to a real college. --Former Faculty

Most colleagues spend about seven hours a week facilitating a single course. This includes four hours of classroom facilitating (ostensibly), grading papers and preparing for class. If quality can be delivered with that kind of commitment, then UOP faculty are delivering it on a consistent basis. Most faculty use the standardized UOP syllabi. Generally the typical syllabus requires students to engage the curricula for about six or seven hours of work per week. This includes four hours of class time and two to three hours of individual or team work. My typical 30 hour class over ten weeks at trad schools require students to contribute about two to three hours of work per week plus class time. Sucess requires a 55-60 hour commitment. At UOP in a three credit class there is 20 hours of class time and maybe 6 hours of team time plus 8 hours of individual time. Success requires 30-34 hour commitment. Is this comparable? --Current Faculty

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