UOPX is ignoring a problem with unhappy facilitators who have no classes to teach. Yet, UOPX is still offering incentives to faculty to take new classroom training even though half may not never again get another class to teach. In fact, some facilitators say in forums they have not seen a class for several months. Yet UOPX is still hiring and giving classes to "new" faculty and faculty with 5 years of experience on up are not working. Add on top the new classroom format is difficult, all on ground campuses will be closed, and UOPX seems to want to cut itself to prosperity, no one can be happy there except stockholders.
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It seems that UofP has transitioned from calling "facilitators" "instructors". As UofP student that is a few classes away from finishing, I find this interesting as I do not see the facilitators adding any instructional value to courses. As I stated to my UofP advisor, although the persons running my courses as facilitators of various qualitative levels, I have yet to see any industry experience added to the university provided curriculum that the facilitator pastes into the horribly integrated BlackBoard courseware.
The facilitators are focused to various pedantic levels on APA formatting, grammar, and pre-determined assignment rubrics (was the word "global" mentioned in the paper). Feedback on papers and the three (3) course-room posts seldom, if ever, contain any feedback relevant to the class' subject matter. Students should make sure that they get those obscure APA citations formatted correctly though. They will likely need that when they graduate and start applying what they taught themselves in the real world.
These are $1,200 correspondence learning classes with the added aggravation of at least one or two team projects. Team projects are UofP's way to ensure that you are forced to work with "400 level" students that cannot write grammatically correct English (after several years of passing grades at UofP)?
Did I say that UofP facilitators, now called "instructors", don't seem to add any value to your $1,200 course! It is no wonder that UofP is simply using the least expensive staff that they can find. Quality of education does not appear to be a significant goal here.
enrollment at many locations
So now we know why. Enrollment down again and trending 4.5 years downward. Enrolled students way down New enrollments suffering and reputation must be it Apollo down 27% in value just today. DeVry, Grand Canyon, etc, down just a bit. Everyone 5 years or more in the facilitation game are out...no classes for six months and dismissed. What is left are the new people still getting trained in the new classroom and for some it is the first time they are teaching in it. There are no students and no classes to teach.
New hires are unaware of how far the school has fallen and are cheaper, both in cost per class and not vetted with stock incentives. Those hanging on to classroom rigor or trying to make "leadership" aware of the problems are either dismissed or left to atrophy via no class offerings.
They do matter, them being the stockholders