I have to strongly disagree with you on that. LSUS, like a majority of universities, treats students like public school 8th graders that are in compulsory attendance instead of adult professionals that are customers paying for an education.

Anyone who has spent time in MKT 701 or MADM 760 should know that understanding the customer is vital to long-term success. Public, negative customer feedback outside of the formal evaluation process is a tremendous indicator of where improvements should be made. The LSUS MBA program needs to seriously evaluate how it conducts itself and make large improvements moving forward.

Situations like the Fall '18 AP2 ISDS 710 disaster, the tone-deaf Data Analytics concentration, Lin's 10 years out of date ISDS 705 autopilot course, lack of logical prerequisites, content quality due to the free textbook rule, the inconsistency of quality from one course to the next, and vast inconsistency of instruction between sections of the same course are real problems.

Pointing out these problems is not being a hater, it is telling the truth. Personally, I'm not highlighting these issues just to be a complainer. I want to see LSUS improve for everyone's benefit - value for those that are in the program, value for those who may be in the program in the future, and value for the degrees of those that completed the program.

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Posted by Menace1069

Jacksonville, FL

Member since Jun 2018

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Posted on 12/17/18 at 10:36 am to GeauxUF

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Situations like the Fall '18 AP2 ISDS 710 disaster, the tone-deaf Data Analytics concentration, Lin's 10 years out of date ISDS 705 autopilot course, lack of logical prerequisites, content quality due to the free textbook rule, the inconsistency of quality from one course to the next, and vast inconsistency of instruction between sections of the same course are real problems.

I have only completed 3 courses thus far (MADM 760, ACCT 701, MADM 752) and it does really surprise me about the outdated material. It was my expectation that any current MBA program would be offering material 2-3 years old. Some of the reference material is 10+ years old and is almost irrelevant at this point.

As far as textbooks go, I had a law prof at UF (Go Gators!) that wrote his own textbook and it was as scatter-brained as he was. There was no way to follow it. They may be good professors but maybe they should not be writing their own text book unless they have a background in it.

Hopefully LSUS listens to the course evaluations and are trying to make it better for future attendees.

This post was edited on 12/17/18 at 11:40 am

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