The Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Date: Sep 03 2010
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
I don't even know where to begin…just a completely miserable experience! Professors would assign papers, review rough drafts, suggest changes, and, even after changes were made by student, would still not find papers satisfactory. If you tried to write anything radical or out of the box, you were discouraged and your ideas/creativity were shot down. Very traditional, close-minded scholars. They talk about critical pedagogy, critical pedagogy, blah, blah, blah—but they don't practice it! They worship the ideas of Freire, but they don't practice them. I could go on and on. On top of all this, they emphasized how perfect papers had to be, yet students would lose points because the professors themselves would incorrectly mark something as wrong (for example, in APA format), when it was actually correct.

Could not wait to transfer the hell out of there! Feel like I just got out of prison. Now I can share my writings and ideas—which have been praised by scholars at universities much more prominent than IUP—with others who will truly appreciate them!