Sum UoPX up in a few words. I will start Passive-Agressive
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pot-smoking, coke-snorting, promiscuous losers pretending to be educated professionals with a real purpose.
Work around
Professional environment.
Amazement, wondering how we are still in business
Ivy League (poison ivy)
It is HR lifting spirits
Prior post, awesome which department do you lead. Such a manager post
Best job ever
Diploma mill run by idiots for idiots.
Reactive, not proactive
Misguided Executive Management.
Reactive, incestuous, impulsive, fearful, passive, expedient, profiteering, ...........that is just for starters.............oh and draconian for sure. UOP has always been a culture of fear, shortcuts, superficiality, and expedience. It has been a business with a "sales" culture, not a university focused on quality academics. Even the product itself reflects that fundamental philosophy and attitude. Give them degrees, not education is their mantra. This does not imply students don't learn and UOP doesn't pose a challenge; they do and it does. The question is, how much compared with other institutions? Is a student's investment commensurate with the return? What is the PV (perceived value) of a UOP degree.The vast majority of students (based on my 25 years at UOP) were and are motivated by earning a degree, not learning or being educated. And UOP has given them what they desired. I remember back in the late 90's UOP was dubbed the "fast-food" of academia and "education-lite." I took umbrage at those notions then, but now years later they seem all too accurate. Can a student learn at UOP in 5 or 6 weeks what other students learn in 10-12 weeks at another institution in a given class? Does seat time matter? Is the team process really a viable and effective alternative to seat time and individual study? My answers are no, yes, and no. Seat time does matter; this seems totally self-evident as does the duration of a course and the lack of rigor in the team process. I am not arguing there is no value; there is. The question is whether UOP produces comparable outcomes for its students compared with other accredited institutions who have double the exposure to curriculum, assignments, etc. The answer is a resounding no. UOP has always lacked depth and breadth. A 4 or 5 week project in a UOP course (primarily) team based) cannot compare with senior projects, capstones, etc. at other schools. UOP students graduate without the depth and breadth of their counterparts from other institutions. This does seem to constitute "education-lite." Of course they argue "andragogy"; that adult students do not need such depth and breadth for they have developed it through life and professional experience. This is not a rationale I accept. UOP remains "education-light" and the "fast-food" of education.
fake degree store
Dumpster fire