WGU Layoffs

[JusticeNamaste]

One of my Course Instructors was impacted by this. She shared with me that WGU has long been in the habit of behavior such as this. She also informed me that more layoffs are said to be in the works and that the Evaluation Department is slated to become automated with AI Technology evaluating the student's work instead of the actual evaluators. If you've been a student at WGU within the last few years, as I have, you many have noticed that whereas the evaluation feedback was never personalized (such as the use of personal pronouns such as "you") that has now changed completely so that the feedback DOES include the use of personal pronouns - according to my former Course Instructor, this is being implemented so that the evaluative feedback will sound "human" but will actually be automated by a bot.


The students will not be made aware of this, but the more personalized feedback that evaluators are now giving will, at some point, be made to sound human, but will, in fact, be an AI generated response. Students are being lied to. This is not fair and it's not right at all.
I, for one, will be finishing my degree by the end of this year and will NOT be recommending this school to anyone. I spoke on the phone for over two hours last night with my (now) former Course Instructor and she is absolutely devastated by her layoff, as her husband has cancer and is in the middle of receiving radiation treatments, and as her insurance was through WGU and her husband was on it, at the end of this month, her insurance will now stop. I am posting this information here for all current WGU students as this information needs to be known - and if this comment is suddenly deleted by the moderator for violating some sort of standard, then what does that say about the transparency of WGU itself? 

Please, everyone who is currently attending this school, think about what I have posted here. I have nothing to lose as I am a student myself, but my heart absolutely aches for my Course Instructor who has been absolutely wonderful to me. WE, the students, pay for the salaries of the employees at WGU and WE, the students, deserve the full unvarnished TRUTH.