The University of the People is recruiting new spammers

[SteveFoerster]

The program is ridiculous, just like an other UoPeople's programs.
People who enroll in this online university do so only to get an accredited piece of paper, certainly not for the quality of the program. If you read other discussions on this forum, you'll see that dozens of criticisms have been raised about the poor quality of this university, and no one has ever been able to refute them. The typical response is: "We don't care, the only thing that matters is that it's accredited."

Although one could flip that around to ask what you know that their accreditors don't.

[davewill]

I'm confused. Are they charging too much, or teaching too little? It's kind of hard to argue that they should be charging less tuition while saying they need to increase instruction quality.

[TINASAM]

He's just ranting about everything and anything he can about the school.

[theboyfrombarrio]

Even in this forum there have been some posts that 1. celebrate the university, 2. invite people to listen to Shai Reshef's "interviews", 3. claim that everything is fine and that you need to hurry and sign up etc.
The tone is promotional and celebratory: I wonder if they've been rewarded with the $100 for the best spammer of the month.

No other online university resorts to these tricks.
Actually, not even Scientology.

Comparing UoPeople to Scientology is offensive and absurd!

You’ve already lost the plot at this point. One is a nonprofit university accredited by U.S. educational authorities. The other is a religion with an entirely different mission and structure. Making such comparisons undermines your credibility, not theirs.

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This Israeli diploma mill, disguised as an American university, keeps falling into ridicule: I received a "job offer" to become a spammer, which they call an "ambassador". The job essentially consists of bombarding internet forums with contributions or advertising messages, even fabricated ones, and even automatically generated by AI.

The best spammer of the month gets a prize of $100, to be used as credit on social media (Instagram, if I understand correctly).

In reality, $100 for being a spammer (and only given to the "best") is very little, but it may appeal to people in the poorer countries of the world. This tactic has already been used before, as seen in this discussion https://groups.google.com/g/it.comp.lang...SxKRR05nAM where some Indian or African spammers joined in to say that the school would have a "top faculty". The only problem is, it actually doesn’t have any faculty!

Instead of recruiting spammers, couldn't they invest in qualified teaching staff? No, because the so-called "university of the people" is a machine created to suck money, and qualified teachers would cost money. Better to recruit underpaid spammers.

Criticizing Israel has nothing to do with this.

You say you're Jewish? fine! That still doesn't give you license to toss around xenophobic undertones about a school "hiding in Israel" or "casting a bad light on a population." 

UoPeople was founded by Shai Reshef, an Israeli-American entrepreneur, but the university is legally registered and headquartered in the U.S. 

That’s public record. What exactly is “fake” about that?