Editing Herzing Issues: Workload and Student Communication (section)

=== HU-096a: Weekly assignment volumes of roughly 90 to 100 assignments, and up to 50 hours of classwork in a single week, incompatible with marketed flexibility and reported to prevent actual learning ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:12em" | Severity
| High
! style="width:12em" | Status
| CONFIRMED
|-
! Issue type
| Unreasonable Workload Volume / Misrepresentation of Demands
! Date added
| 2026-05-05 (split 2026-06-06)
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Program Chair / Academic Affairs
|}
'''Finding.''' Per the tracker's evidence, students across cohorts documented weekly assignment volumes of roughly 90 to 100 assignments and up to 50 hours of classwork in a single week, incompatible with the program's marketed flexibility for working adults. Students reported the volume prevented genuine learning, with one completing assessments by redoing them to a perfect score without reading the content and another reporting retaining nothing. One student reported leaving a corporate job for a CNA position because the workload was incompatible with full-time employment.

'''Evidence.''' Anonymous member 985 (March 30, 2025); Anonymous member 395 (July 15, 2025); Anonymous member 732 (July 10, 2025) on 50 hours of classwork in a week; Student C (July 15, 2025); Student CD (July 15, 2025); Student CE (April 2, 2025) on roughly 40 assignments in a week and a syllabus that had not matched since the program started. (Source Group: Facebook Group Export (Volume 7).)

'''Reported statement.''' Anonymous member 985 reported completing over 90 assignments that week out of fear of missing something in a disorganized course structure, and stated there was no way to actually read through the material while still getting everything done on time.

'''Standards.''' 34 C.F.R. 600.2 (credit-hour definition: credit hours must reflect a reasonable approximation of expected work); ACEN Standard 4 (curriculum must support meaningful learning); 34 C.F.R. 668.71-75 (misrepresentation, where a program is marketed as compatible with full-time employment while assigning far more work than disclosed). Lead: {{HU|HU-096}}.

'''Impact.''' Students completing assignments without reading content are not acquiring clinical competency, a downstream patient-safety concern; working students, the marketed demographic, are the most harmed.

'''Notes.''' Sub-issue of {{HU|HU-096}} (lead). Split 2026-06-06.

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