Warning to all UoPeople students: I'm an admin quitting, and here's the truth about Rosylan AI
Commenting this on a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm one of several admins at UoPeople quitting before next term. Not because I found a better job, but because the university no longer believes in what it sold us when it was founded.
You've been told the switch to Rosylan AI proctoring starting next term is about academic integrity and scalability. That's not the full story. Here's what's happening behind the scenes:
UoPeople received a significant payout from Rosylan AI to make them the exclusive, mandatory proctoring tool for all students. This wasn't an academic decision. It was a financial one.
This is phase one of a larger plan to shift away from human instructors toward AI-driven teaching. Rosylan AI is just the start.
UoPeople is actively looking into selling the university.
Fees are likely going up within the next year. The tuition-free model will soon be a thing of the past.
Many of you have noticed credit transfers are being deliberately slowed down, and some credits and proctored courses are being "redistributed" in ways that make it harder for students to leave or graduate on time. This isn't incompetence. It keeps students locked in as the university transitions.
And here's what breaks my heart most. UoPeople was founded to serve students who couldn't afford traditional education, including thousands in impoverished nations. Under this new model, those students will be left behind with Rosalyn AI proctoring requiring reliable internet, working webcams, and quiet testing environments. These are things many of UoPeople's most vulnerable students don't have. Add rising fees on top of that, and the university is quietly closing its doors to the very people it claimed to champion. That's not a pivot but a betrayal of their original mission.
A nonprofit, supposedly tuition-free university taking payouts from an AI company, planning to replace faculty, raising fees, slowing credit transfers, redistributing credits, exploring a sale, and abandoning the world's most vulnerable students?
That's not why I signed up. And it's why multiple admins are walking away.
Students, you deserve transparency. If you've requested a credit transfer recently and it's taking suspiciously long, you're not imagining things. You need to ask the hard questions now and don't take the proctoring change at face value. It's just the first domino.
Posting anonymously for obvious reasons. No DMs for documents. If this post disappears, you'll know why.