Many that work and teach at UOP believe if we increase the quality of courses we can right size the reality we are not providing value. Let’s make our courses more involved and frankly harder and requiring more work to providing a better education. In addition we will add a lot of credibility to alumni and current students. Question: why do we just look at costs and not focus on increasing quality?
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Well said. That is exactly what UOP is.
Current enrollment demographics cannot support more rigorous curriculum; they can barely manage it now. Most of our military students enroll on ground for the comp bump while the majority of our other students need remediation. Improving the curriculum should have been done 10 years ago. It is far too late for anyone to take it seriously, especially with reliance on part-time faculty who are not invested in the mission; then again neither are the executives. Quality requires investment in people, processes, and plant. It simply will not happen. The patient is terminal with no known cure.
UOP could be a great school but that opportunity has passed. Right now they are just trying to string students along to keep cash coming in- putting off the inevitable. They could be good- but too many "faculty" phoned it in for a long time and students began seeing through the charade. Management never was interested a quality school- it's all about the money and that pool is drying up quickly.
Bring back the pre and post skills assessment and testing. Let’s not just take everyone.
Too late to go legit. Anyway that would spoil our reputation.
Exactly! So let’s step up and add some legitimacy to our classes. Provide a better education and increase the reputation for those that have graduated.
if people wanted take harder classes theyd go to a real college
To take on a new model would be a new company we have never been. Now with investor money they just want to make their share.
Now you all must remember this business is about selling loans to to the mostly unqualified. No big news but it's worth repeating this is a numbers game. If it ever was about providing quality education those days are long gone.
The faculty, classrooms etc., are merely a facade to lure the unsuspecting.
The problem is that folks have figured out that it's better to die penniless in the gutter than to suffer the ignominity of dying in the gutter broke clutching a UOP diploma that has no more instrinsic value than to employ it as a snot rag and an a-- wipe but not necessarliy in that order.
"Quality" "More Involved" "Harder" --- yes, definitely. But UoP is going the other way. Class sizes, 'way back when, were 10 to 12 students. Faculty could provide a lot of individual attention. NOw a class of 30 or even more is not unusual.
What proportion of tuition is going to faculty pay? 5%? 10%?
There is no way the quality of the education we provide is going to increase at that rate.
Managers, directors, VP, etc are not bright enough for that idea. That would require real educational professionals.
Money talks b s walks. They want to cut , take the cash, and sell what's left