Indiana Wesleyan University

Date: Aug 30 2011
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
I am toward the end of my BSM degree - 5 classes remain and I attend a satillite campus. Although I like the preparedness of the university with regards to books arriving, department access (student advisors, etc.), one complaint I have (and a big one IMO) is the overkill of the group work. I understand the concept of working as a team and preparing for such in a real-life work environment, but for every class??? That is crazy. Should I send a bill to the group member(s) who drove down my GPA from what I feel it could have been if I were responsible for my own work? Unless I am focucing on being in sales, a public speaker or a politician, it is silly to have to give verbal presentations for EVERY class - how silly is a verbal presentation for an Accounting class? Have a communications class for verbal stuff and be done with it. Have a couple of classes where teamwork is a focus and also be done with it. Let the student control the majority of their GPA's desinty and not slacker group members. I would have had a GPA of close to 4.0 if it not for group mates that choose not to care. Had I known that the group thing and verbal presentations were going to be throughout the EVERY program class, I would have chose another university. Then there have been MANY classes where I have paid for books (and they are not cheap) only to have the instructor not use it. Resale after use is a ripoff. Give us the option to buy books once we see if the instructors intent is to use it AND let us shop around for the book.