UoPeople WASC Accredited 2/14/2025

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I taught at UoPeople for 1 term and then dropped the second term. I did it because I believed in their mission at first and still believe the college should be affordable. You get paid an honorarium for how many students are in your class and if they drop the honorarium goes down. I remember I started out with 40 students and it dropped down to 10. So the honorarium went down. The honorarium is small it is not a lot. For being a volunteer position they seriously micromanage you. You have to long in during a specified window and they watch and confront you if you don't. I dropped because of the micromanaging when I wasn't really getting paid. I don't really see how UoPeople can be a resume builder when they just got RA accreditation and also because UoPeople's model is built on peer-review. A lot of the other schools do not do that.

There is no way to maintain a quality educational experience when you pay lower than minimum wage, have to rely on third world instructors and then count on the good will of the instructors to volunteer their time. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Something is very wrong with their RA accreditation acceptance. I wonder how many of the established schools who share the same accreditation feel about being compared to a school that graduates students based on the peer-review of potentially other D students. If I was one of those schools I would not be happy about it. Maybe we should ask them?