UoPeople WASC Accredited 2/14/2025

[Ares]

Wow, so virtuous, anyways…

I figured you would like UoPeople it has that Marxist ring to it.

Plagiarism is a serious issue at UoPeople

My entire class this term is full of cheaters. Be it discussion or written assignments. Students are submitting plagiarized work from questionable websites. It's not even poor APA citations. I emailed and messaged my instructor, but they aren’t doing anything to stop it. I politely told a student that copies everything from Course Hero every single time that their work wasn’t original but copied from Course Hero, verbatim. I did it so that students in the class would stop doing it, but instead of admitting it, they accused me of cheating (which isn’t true). Of course, I’m not worried as I didn’t copy anything but cited all my sources even for the ideas. I’m upset that I put effort and time into my work, but others just get decent grades by plagiarizing. I feel UoPeople isn’t doing enough to stop such students. It sets a very dangerous precedent for future students that genuinely work hard and UoPeople's reputation.

I agree. I have witnessed the same thing and contacted my instructor with the same results. They act like it's such a big deal, but then do nothing about flat out plagiarism. One person I graded didn't even include any reference at all or even state that they found it online and it was directly quoted from an easily found website online. A simple google search got me to the plagiarized content. The instructor told me to take off a few points for plagiarism for the assignment and then I got a bad grade for my peer assessment because of taking off the points lololol. I had to submit to the instructor for him to overturn. It's pretty ridiculous.

Plagiarism is rampant ("Clown College")

There seems to be an absurd amount of students copy-pasting content from ai-generated tools. It’s completely obvious and it is disgusting and saddening that it is being allowed.

To be fair, I am not bashing the use of ai. The official APA.org website has a guide on how to cite ChatGPT. [...]

The problem is no one is citing it even if it is allowed, therefore deliberately plagiarizing it and it is seen as okay.

If no one at UoPeople has a problem with this, I’ll have to spread the word somehow. Maybe a report to some higher authority will get their attention. I’m sick of it.

The University’s President has given a go-ahead to GenAI. That’s all he tweets about lately. The issue is students should be utilizing AI to understand material but they are completing the whole assignments with zero effort through ChatGPT. I just saw students who cannot even form proper replies turn into Einstein and Shakespeare in my classes today.

Sadly, I agree entirely with you. Although we are students and beneficiaries of the University being successful, the administration continuing to turn a blind eye to this plague makes us all look like complete fools at a clown college.

Plenty of people point out the typical “just focus on yourself” approach, but it’s horribly short-sighted and completely ignores the fact that it tangibly cheapens our own accomplishments. I can’t speak for other countries, but much of the social degradation in the U.S. stems from this same self-centered attitude. We should be able to take pride in our work and in the genuine contributions of our fellow classmates, not just glad to skirt unnoticed through a degree program tailored to liars.

This may sound harsh, but I’ll go ahead and say it: not everyone is entitled to a college degree. Many of our classmates should stay in the exact circumstances they currently are.

DF Moderator Followup...

Exactly. The RA accreditor told them they need to do a better job with their instructors, and get rid of peer reviews. At this point the university only cares about marketing in Arabic countries and is throwing everything at trying to grow the middle east market. Which is fine and all, but they're severely neglecting their original. [...]

Instructors have no control. We only have control over learning journals. But, everything else is peer graded. Thus, less than 10% of their grade is in reality controlled by the instructor. So if a student does amazing in learning journals, etc, but their peers are bad, it's hard to adjust their grade up. I have to give a detailed explanation why I override students. Then I get bitched at for overriding students. [...]

Yep! I have a state university on my resume now. I was like oh cool, I can give a few hours a week to UoP to help them. But, no, they expect full-time staff, at $450 for 2 months. This rate is more than minimum wage where most of their professors are from. But, they're trying to get American accreditation, but, they won't pay American rates and they're pushing away American and Western instructors. [...]

Exactly! It's $450 a month now. But, this is really competitive in South America and India. However, it isn't in the Western world. This is probably why a lot of their instructors are from India. However, my big issue with this isn't that, but they will cater to that market, and accept fake PhDs from diploma mills, etc. But, require Americans/Europeans to go through hoops etc to prove our accrediation, but, they accept University of My Mom's Backyard if you're from India. India has FANTASTIC schools don't get me wrong, but, some of those schools aren't legit. They're even worse than ENEB or places you just pay for a dissertation, that not even any accreditors will give NA status to. [...]

They allow people who chat GPT all the assignments to get a degree and then hire them to do chatGPT responses LOL