Athabasca University

I have been dealing with this school for two years. The staff are extremly toxic and difficult and care very little about the student. The Financial Aid Department is probably the worse for toxic and poorly trained staff. It would almost seem they make it up as they go along. They claim they follow policys and procedures but when you look up the policies and procedures there are none nor will they provide you with a copy of one to support their claims. Becky Jonasson is one in particular to watch out for. She is extremly rude, unproffesional, and poorly educated on how to fullfil her position with Athabasca University. And if you get on her bad side she will make false statements to the governing student loan body in attempts to both cause issues and delay funding. Becky Jonasson should be terminated from her position. All branches of government I have spoken to who she interacts with agree she is rude, dissmissive and doesn't seem to know what she is doing. How does the school employ such incompetent toxic people? Do they not offer training? This is probably the only reason I would say run from this school as fast as you can it's administrative staff and governance is a joke. Seriouse question who runs the circus known as Athabasca University and why on earth does the government fund them?????

This university does not care about the students. They only care about the money rolling in. Their employees call students horrible names and put them down any chance they get. For people that have disabilities, they could care less. They don't talk to the student as a person, they will not help you if you are on student loans and they cancel everything on a student to make themselves look better.

Where to begin with this place.... For reference I am no dummy. I am currently wrapping up my Master's program and about to begin my Ph.D. in engineering. Let's just say I have taken a lot of university courses and I have never been more horrified by an academic institution.

1) Content: sure the content is okay? I hated the format and the layout that is presented. Often times the content is not relevant to the subject. For ex: I took structural geology here as there was a conflict at my home university. My next year I took the advanced level course at my home university... I was not as far a long as the other students and there were methods that AU did not even bother to teach. The methods they did I never used again...

2) The tutors: oh my word did they pick them most arrogant humans on earth?? These guys seem to think their God or something with how they handle questions. Fist of all good luck even getting a response.. Shout out to Henry Agbogun for ghosting me for weeks and then just to stop responding all together. OH also, still waiting on you to mark that assignment from four months ago... OH and when you do get a response it is not helpful. You might get a bunch of red marks on a paper, usually unintelligible, and them saying you get it now? No, obviously I don't as you just gave me a bunch of unreadable red lines my dude.

3) The labs: oh my good word. These labs were TERRIBLE. The final lab is using a compass on a carboard cut out to measure strike and dip and such. EXCEPT they do not send you the materials they want you to use and you have to buy a compass to do it all. FUN. So of course my results were slightly different. Think that they marked it nicer in understanding? HAHAHAHA, no. Of course they were ruthless and seemingly did not give a hoot. All could have been avoided if they had answered my question I sent weeks prior if this was going to be an issue and what I could do...

Thanks AU for the worst 23 weeks of my academic life.