DeVry University

[Luminus]

Okay, what's the deal with this place. Good or bad? There are too many mixed opinions and I don't know which one to believe. Basically, I'm thinking about going there, since the economy has crapped all over my ability to get a job. However, the school appears to have a bad reputation with employers. Is this true?

 

[Kemaiku]

All I know is they're desperate. I've recieved god knows how many emails from them asking me to join up over the years.

 

[Amaris]

University of Phoenix is the same way. Avoid them also. I was enrolled and when I was in the process of switching classes, some kind of clerical error was made on their part and I got dropped from one of my classes. I haven't been able to get back in yet. Plus, the online classroom environment is rather poor. To be as nice as possible, the people who post on TrekBBS are more mature and well read than the people I met in the online classrooms, and this was for business.

 

[T'Baio]

Man, I hate online classes. I took one last term, and even though the Prof would post various detail about something on several parts of the board, it was inevitable that some people would create a post on the discussion board asking how to do the exact thing the Prof had posted all over about. Then, even with that post on the discussion board with the title "how many questions on the midterm?", someone else would post exactly the same thing right below it! People in online learning want everything spoon fed to them, it's ridiculous.

But to be honest, a lot of the people in my campus classes aren't much better. Oy...

 

[Amaris]

Man, I hate online classes. I took one last term, and even though the Prof would post various detail about something on several parts of the board, it was inevitable that some people would create a post on the discussion board asking how to do the exact thing the Prof had posted all over about. Then, even with that post on the discussion board with the title "how many questions on the midterm?", someone else would post exactly the same thing right below it! People in online learning want everything spoon fed to them, it's ridiculous.

But to be honest, a lot of the people in my campus classes aren't much better. Oy...

My favorite:

Prof: "Remember, all due projects are to be posted in private inboxed. Don't post in the main forum, as that will cause issues with the class assignment tree."
Student One: [Posts in main forum] "What's our next project"?
Student Two: [Posts assignment in main forum, not private inbox]
Student Three: [Posts in main forum asking Professor where they're supposed to post]
Me: [rolleyes - then facepalm - Then headache]

 

[T'Baio]

I love when students ask what's on the exam, and are shocked to learn they actually have to study.

Students - What should we study most?
Prof - Everything.
Students - Should we study the lecture notes, lecture slides or the textbook more?
Prof - Study everything, there's material from all of it.
Students - We have to study everything!?!

It's fucking school! God, people are stupid.

 

[Amaris]

I love when students ask what's on the exam, and are shocked to learn they actually have to study.

Students - What should we study most?
Prof - Everything.
Students - Should we study the lecture notes, lecture slides or the textbook more?
Prof - Study everything, there's material from all of it.
Students - We have to study everything!?!

It's fucking school! God, people are stupid.

Had the same thing going on with the classes at Phoenix. Our course syllabus was online and notated, so that you could go right to the chapters you needed to read. People would still ask what they were supposed to read and wouldn't come prepared. Again, rolleyes and then facepalm.

 

[Chaos Descending]

DeVry is a very good technical school for electronics and the sort, but horribly overpriced.

As far as the bad reputation with employers, I have never heard that before. The high tech vendors that I work around tend to value DeVry, ITT Tech, and military electronics experience as the most attractive qualifications when considering new candidates for employment.

 

[John Picard]

I love when students ask what's on the exam, and are shocked to learn they actually have to study.

Students - What should we study most?
Prof - Everything.
Students - Should we study the lecture notes, lecture slides or the textbook more?
Prof - Study everything, there's material from all of it.
Students - We have to study everything!?!

It's fucking school! God, people are stupid.

Had the same thing going on with the classes at Phoenix. Our course syllabus was online and notated, so that you could go right to the chapters you needed to read. People would still ask what they were supposed to read and wouldn't come prepared. Again, rolleyes and then facepalm.

I had to complete a General Science class when pursuing my AAS. We had this young thing, probably 20, who didn't pay attention in class wanted to argue every answer she marked wrong on her test when the instructor handed them back. People finally started getting sick of her whining and said, "IT WAS IN THE LECTURE" but she would protest that she didn't remember it. A couple of people broke out their notes to show her. Finally, the instructor caught on and told her to see him after class. I think she dropped the course a while later.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Interesting. I was just reading an article in the Sunday paper yesterday discussing if college degrees were still worth it in today's economy. The clear and obvious answer is YES, but it seems many college graduates can't even get decent jobs they want.

 

[Amaris]

Cost is getting more prohibitive too. For example, with Phoenix, tuition rates rose three times inside of 6 months.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Some companies, like my employer, offer tuition-reimbursement benefits so that employees can go (back) to school (on-line courses, evening classes, etc.) and get their certificates, bachelor's or master's degrees.

 

[Luminus]

Yeah, I heard the prices are outrageous as well.

 

[Snaploud]

To be as nice as possible, the people who post on TrekBBS are more mature and well read than the people I met in the online classrooms, and this was for business.

TrekBBS University...Hmmm....

It could work.

 

[T'Baio]

You know I've actually seen parents accost Professors in the hall and get mad at them because their child failed a class. I've heard parents say that they paid for school and it's the professor's job to ensure their child passes!

Don't get me started on this topic. I've seen so much laziness and sense of entitlement for nothing since I've gone back to school, it makes me sick. Nobody wants to work for anything.

 

[John Picard]

You know I've actually seen parents accost Professors in the hall and get mad at them because their child failed a class. I've heard parents say that they paid for school and it's the professor's job to ensure their child passes!

Don't get me started on this topic. I've seen so much laziness and sense of entitlement for nothing since I've gone back to school, it makes me sick. Nobody wants to work for anything.

Hell, I'll work for beer

 

[SeerSGB]

You know I've actually seen parents accost Professors in the hall and get mad at them because their child failed a class. I've heard parents say that they paid for school and it's the professor's job to ensure their child passes!

Don't get me started on this topic. I've seen so much laziness and sense of entitlement for nothing since I've gone back to school, it makes me sick. Nobody wants to work for anything.

Well it isn't like they start them early on that path or nothing.

At my son's former school, the principal had a memo circulated that the kids of parents that donated money to the school's PTA were to be given "special" and "extra" consideration in regards to grades and "leeway" when it came to disciplinary issues.

 

[Trippy]

You know I've actually seen parents accost Professors in the hall and get mad at them because their child failed a class. I've heard parents say that they paid for school and it's the professor's job to ensure their child passes!

Happens all the time at my school in the senior grades.

Don't get me started on this topic. I've seen so much laziness and sense of entitlement for nothing since I've gone back to school, it makes me sick. Nobody wants to work for anything.

I burns me too. Students that have to have their parents go to war with teachers to get the marks that they expect make me sick. The parents need some serious therapy

 

[MEATLOAFr]

I'd goto Trek BBS University

 

[Teelie]

Interesting. I was just reading an article in the Sunday paper yesterday discussing if college degrees were still worth it in today's economy. The clear and obvious answer is YES, but it seems many college graduates can't even get decent jobs they want.

College degree is the new high school dilpoma.