Natasha Zimardi Berstein

Review of Univeristy of Phoenix

I've gotten a lot more out of this school than exp...

I've gotten a lot more out of this school than expected. They provided me with far better resources than the previous college I attended, ITT Technical Institute. Everything has been going well. Until.

I noticed a woman who had a history of misspellings, and incomprehensible sentence structure in class, was copying and pasting paragraphs. She was because they obviously weren't her own.

She wasn't citing sources. She was schooled on several occasions on her answers by other students. But she just kept posting plagiarized content. I made a comment to her about it in class. She kept doing it.

I complained to the staff, and to the professor. Nothing happened. I sent her a personal letter advising her that copying and pasting content was plagiarism. I was pissed because I put a lot of work into my responses. This woman was passing the class for copying someone else's work.

They didn't assure me that the situation was being handled. So I handled it myself.

They sent me a disciplinary letter because I sent a letter to her personal email, schooling her on plagiarism, and the qualifications of that course.

They wouldn't discipline the woman themselves, and didn't like it for anyone else to either.

This woman should never have been permitted to take this course. The authors that she copied should be notified, in my opinion.

I've noticed in every class I've taken thus far, at least fifty percent of the class doesn't use proper sentence structure, grammar, or punctuation. But never had I seen anyone outright plagiarize another author's works. And they let her get away with it.

This school has failed, and stupid has excelled.