The UOP online program relies on 1,200 part-time faculty who must be seasoned practitioners in the fields in which they teach. Classes are high on written communication and collaborative learning. The school has a centrally created core curriculum, which it says is devised by some of the brightest minds in their individual fields. The only thing we haven t replicated online is oral communication, in terms of students getting up and presenting work, Mueller says. Simple, he says.
Students evaluate their professors at the end of each course.
We don t offer tenure. You re only as good as your latest performance. Honeywell, for example, hired the school to create a program designed to equip their employees to deal with real Honeywell problems. Ivy League schools aren t focused on the clientele we re serving we re working with employed people. We have any number of Fortune 500 employers reimbursing our students.