r/CapellaUniversity

In no way am I complaining but has anybody else received 2 financial aid refunds in the same term? I received mine 2 weeks ago and I got a couple emails today about another refund coming my way. Could it be they miscalculated and giving me the proper amount (the rest of what they owed me) or is this part of the bill?

So.. im all done w my captsone but still waiting for my other class to be graded… this porfessor takes forever and im just sitting, waiting for her to be able to close out everything. Is it not okay to email/ask to expedite so I can access my official transcript? I start grad school on Thursday and its driving me crazy. -.-

Hey guys, I am finishing my capstone on September 18th and I wanted to attend the November commencement in Kansas City. The website says to attend that your degree has to be awarded by October 2nd. Is it wishful thinking to think I will be able to attend? I live close to Kansas City so it is perfect, but I am scared that I am just delusional and there is no way it will be conferred that fast.

I want to share this experience because I fear the school might try to sweep this under the rug, and I refuse to let that happen after seeing how affected my classmates were by this experience.

For Context, I am in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's Course and had to attend Residency in Rosen Creek, Florida. A student in my session asked our *new* professor if we could talk about this, and she said yes, so I thought I would share an abbreviated version of the story.

So....

The professor is an older white man. The professor would often get distracted from the topic by telling non-sequitur stories about his past experiences, his political beliefs, or his personal life. This would be a common theme throughout the entire residency. While stories are expected in a group setting, his sharing often took 20-30 minutes and left little time to cover any counseling topics.

I will admit that there were many times during these stories that the professor would become confusing to listen to, too quiet to hear over the loud Air Conditioning system, or I would start to become bored with the lecture. Despite this, I have many examples of conversations and statements that the professor made that made me and my fellow students uncomfortable. 

Let me preface this with: This list is not in any particular order. It is as I remembered them. In addition, some of these were just conversation topics that I believe should not have been brought up by the professor in a professional setting.

Here's a list:

-Made many different comments about troubles with his marriage or hating his wife. (Not especially inappropriate, but not an appropriate topic of discussion during residency)

-Complained about how gender-neutral terms such as 'birthing parent' and non-birthing parent were ridiculous and should never be used and are offensive to 'normal' people.

-"That's alright, the Romanis are always late."

-"Don't worry, we will have you blond-haired and blue-eyed by the end of the week." (Spoken to a Female Black Student).

-A story about a black student who had brought his favorite foods to school (pointedly stating these foods were 'probably fried chicken and watermelon') and then presented them to the professor while saying "This is for you Master," with an accent. 

-Talking about a school where he used to work, stating that he knew the school was heading downhill because he looked at the statistics and noted that the population had become only 7% white. And that 'we should all know what that means'. 

-Talked about how women are always the cause of abuse, citing research that stated that ,male gay couples are less likely to abuse each other than straight couples and that lesbian couples have the highest rates of abuse. 

-Brought up the events of 9/11 multiple times, attempting to talk about his political beliefs surrounding this event. 

-Asked a transsexual student to be the client in a therapy session the professor conducted, telling them to draw on their life experience, in front of the entire class. (This is potentially very triggering).

-He detailed a conversation he had with a black student where the student described how Jewish people had suffered more in slavery than black people had. And that, as a result, black people should 'stop complaining about racism and slavery' when it was not as impactful to them as it was on Jewish people. 

Now for the incident that ACTUALLY got him dismissed(?) (we hope?):

The Professor would have us do role-plays where the student acted as a counselor, and the professor served as the client. In these sessions, the professor would often depict characters 'authentically'. For example, when he portrayed a Korean student, he had broken English and an accent. When he portrayed a Dominican woman, it was the same scenario.

In this incident, he was portraying a client in a role-play who was a student who refused to attend his English class because his teacher was Black. During the scenario, the following was stated:

-The Black teacher was only hired as a means to fill a diversity quota. 

-The Black teacher was only pretending to act white; when she got home, she would talk 'stupid' and 'black' again. (Putting on an accent to emphasize this point)

-The Black teacher was making him read books that couldn't teach anything because they were by 'Blacks' and 'Jews'

-The client had a father who was implied to be taking part in meetings with the KKK. 

-The client had an uncle who was the head of a white supremacist group in prison.

-The client had a brother who was gay (called a 'f****t') and was kicked out of his home. The client stated this brother deserved to die and be beaten up because of his sexual orientation.

-The client believed that all Hispanics were illegal and should be beaten and killed.

-The client believed that if Black students attempted to sit with him or talk to him, he should be allowed to beat them or k*ll them after school. 

During these statements, the Professor used uncensored slurs to emphasize his points. 

We have not been trained on how to work with this type of client, and the professor did not provide any insight as to how to handle this kind of scenario in the future.

He WAS removed from the class on the 4th day (when 2 hours were remaining), but we have heard no further word as to how this will be handled. We were all given an A on our in-person counseling assessment by our replacement, but that doesn't give back our time and money from this 5-DAY RESIDENCY.

How has he been teaching this long? How was he allowed to lead a residency?

I spent thousands of dollars on Tuition, flights, and the Hotel to be a part of this experience, and all I learned was how to be a racist and get fired.

Hey, is anyone else having a similar issue with their Capella financial aid disbursement?
I still haven’t received an update on my disbursement. I opened a case with Financial Aid on August 7th, and I called to check in on August 12th. They basically told me that there’s a delay and that I should hear something by early this coming week regarding the disbursement.
They said there’s nothing wrong with my account and nothing that I need to fix on my end, so I’m just sitting here like… what the heck, dude? 😭
Is anyone else experiencing this same delay? Has anyone actually received their disbursement/refund yet?

Has anyone been through the Sport Psych or the Industrial/Organizational Psych program? Debating between the two. Appreciate any insight!

Has anyone had NO movement whatsoever with there financial aid? I haven’t even gotten my award back to accept yet. I’ve had NO movement at all since the semester began and i’m beyond frustrated. I’m guided path in my second semester.

I live in a room that I rent and my student aid is a large bit of my financial stability. I’ve been caught up in the grad plus loan debacle. Is there anyone that is able to help me? I have contacted several media outlets about doing interviews to potentially bring this to a larger scale. If I launched a GoFundMe, would anyone be able to help?

I’m am beyond frustrated. I have been working on a paper for weeks and it is 100% my own writing. I ran it through panagram and it flagged as AI detected. I have re written it several times to try and figure out what is making it flag as AI and regardless of what I change it still shows AI. I was curious so I uploaded a paper I wrote in 2012 (before AI was around) and it flagged as AI as well! Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Hi All! I am in my first guided path course here at capella university im transferring from Oregon State University to pursue my BS In Psychology Pre-Counseling and Therapy degree! I had a quick question does the week for courses start Sunday or Monday? I know I cannot submit work early so I wanted to know so I am able to plan my time to submit work.

Thanks!

I have emailed FAST twice with 0 response from them about my financial aid status and have called but wait times are ridiculous I've heard wait times can be up to 3 hours I also got in touch with my advisor who said I need to contact FAST. It is super annoying since FAST won't respond to my emails and calling them means a 3 hour wait time.

Hi everyone! I’m considering the DBA program at Capella University and would love to hear from current students or recent graduates about their experience.

I have a few questions:

• Is the DBA fully online and asynchronous, or are there any required live Zoom meetings or classes?
• Does the program end with a dissertation, capstone, or another type of doctoral project?
• Do you have to complete a live defense or presentation in front of a committee, or can any presentations be recorded and submitted?
• Are there any live presentations, group projects, or projects where you have to work directly with an outside company or organization?
• For anyone doing the FlexPath option, how quickly have you realistically been able to complete courses?
• How difficult would you say the doctoral project/final portion of the program is?
• How supportive are the professors and faculty during the final doctoral project?
• Overall, would you recommend Capella’s DBA program?

I’d especially appreciate hearing from anyone currently doing the DBA through FlexPath or who has recently completed it. Thank you! 😊

I feel like 90% of the posts I see nowadays are about financial aid. Is that what the school is known for?

I am posting anonymously because I currently have a formal complaint pending with the university. I will not identify the professor, but students considering the HRM FPX-5090 need to be ware.

Before this course, I had gotten A's in every single course. I also have a 4.0 undergraduate GPA and even completed the MBA capstone with an A. I created every assessment specifically around the published instructions and scoring guide. However, instead of evaluating each competency separately, this professor repeatedly assigned Non-Performance ratings because of citation and APA-related concerns.

To be fair, I am not perfect and my APA formatting could use some improvement to meet her standards but I think each product I created was pretty solid.

My problem is the punishment. Correctable citation or consistency issues should affect the relevant communication criterion—not automatically erase all the substantive analysis contained in the assignment. A competency-based system should evaluate each competency based on what the student actually demonstrated.

I repeatedly requested clearer assistance and even asked to be assigned to another professor. I still have not received a phone call, meeting, or one comprehensive written explanation identifying everything that must be corrected. Instead, the feedback has arrived in pieces, followed by repeated Non-Performance ratings and now a referral to the university’s academic standards office after my second submission, which I believe was retaliatory in response to when I filed my complaint.

Anonymous reports do not prove that anyone’s individual grade was wrong, but when the same pattern keeps appearing, students deserve to know before enrolling.

My advice:

• Save every rubric and assignment instruction.
• Screenshot every rating and feedback comment.
• Keep every draft and version-history record.
• Cite every significant claim, recommendation, statistic, and cost estimate.
• Make sure every reference is cited and every citation appears in the references.
• Compare slides against speaker notes line by line.
• Put every request for clarification or reassignment in writing.
• If you have accommodations, involve Disability Services immediately.
• Do not assume a minor APA issue will result in a minor deduction.

My recommendation is avoid her if you can. Consider the self-designated MBA program or something else that doesn't include her because my HR professors in this program were doing too much, from this to even running your assignments through Pangram after they've been ran through Turnitin. Best of luck, folks!