Terrible. Just terrible.

She is so rude. I brought a recruit to class and she flat out made it seem like she didnt want her there. After the recruit told me she would never take her after just one class. She doesn't teach at all and expects the book to do the teaching. I almost feel like she has no idea what she is doing. Gives pointless homework assignments. Don'ttakeher

Awful professor...she explains materials the way you would explain it to elementary school students. Very condescending towards students and did not teach very well. Reads straight from powerpoint slides and skips over lots of material. Grading guidelines for paper is very unclear. Nice person, not a very good professor.

Horrible. Lazy and hardly knows what she is teaching. Refuses to round grades or help students out when they are right on the border of a grade. Hardly knew what my grade was all semester as she waits till the end to grade anything. Received no feedback on exams or any other assignment I turned in. Seriously, do not take a class with her.

Does not grade in a timely matter and teaching is very disorganized which leads to information being disorganized!

Ha. Had her 2 semesters ago. Completely unreliable n unorganized. Rude any time you ask a question, because she doesn't clarify anything she says n contradicts everything then blames it on her students. Not even a good professor really. Makes everyone out to be lazy having bad attitudes when it's really her... I just don't get it

If your an academic and strive for knowledge, then avoid Keener at all costs in your college career. She only will do what is explicitly stated in her contract and nothing more. This phenomena is a sad state of affairs being seen in academia.

Do not take this professor.

Took "Women, Gender, and Culture" (& others) class had so much potential and she ruined it with her lack of personal education, gave inaccurate information. We literally watched documentaries every single class. She had no idea how to teach this course and it was very disappointing as well as a compromise to my education. I would not recommend.

Ive taken a few classes with her. Shes extremely opinionated. Many of her claims rely on reality tv and social media rather than academic sources. The book is the answer for everything; dont bother asking her because she will tell you to look in the book or online. Acts like she works harder than she does; she has every one else do her work.

Had Keener for Intro to Psych. Hated every minute of her class, she likes to use her class as more of a way to talk about sexuality more than psychology itself. Just reads off the slides and then decides to make her tests all application questions. I truly hated this class so much that I changed my major. Use access code instead of book.

My least favorite professor Ive had. She makes lectures mandatory, but you cant learn anything because she is terrible at explaining & talks in circles. You have to start studying from the book a week prior bc the exam is nothing like her lectures. Dont take.

Survived, yet I learned nothing. Worst class I've taken at Slippery Rock. If it wasn't mandatory I would have dropped. If you would like to learn how to doubt your self-efficacy and question whether college is a waste of time and money, then take this class. Otherwise, don't.

Very nice and easy to get along with, just does not have a good teaching style at all. Nothing personal, just business.

Absolutely terrible. I understand everything is shifted to online, but the least she could do is teach. No information to take away from lectures. No point in even holding class. Doesnt grade on time or efficiently. Im teaching myself.

I have had to take classes with Keener many times and they keep getting worse. She is the least qualified individual to teach ever. She has no idea what she's talking about and can never correctly answer questions. She did not lecture at all, we only watched youtube videos and did busy work. Do your best not to take any of her classes.

Lectures were only done 1 day out of the week, she would talk about her opinions for 15-20 minutes of that time. She will want you to take notes during lectures but tell you to focus primarily on her and not your notes when you try to. She put no effort into teaching the content. Can't answer simple yes or no questions. Would not recommend it.

I would never ever take another class with Keener being my professor . Very judgmental and constantly talks about covid and the worlds issues. Gets extremely off topic and wastes class lecture time. I feel like I wasted my money on this class because i didnt learn anything. Lectures were literally only 2 slides then talked about covid.

PLEASE DONT TAKE PSYC232 WITH KEENER. They are the worst. Literally don't do anything. Makes the student assistant teach the entire class while Keener just sits there and doesn't even know whats going on in the class. Doesn't even know due dates for her own class, has to ask the assistant. Then comes in at the end and fails you on the paper.

DO NOT TAKE! lazy, and asks their assistants to do everything, including respond to student emails- never responds themselves. told us that responding to us is a chore.. A lot of group work in this class, including a group essay, so if you get a bad group you're screwed! Perusall is awful and required. they're very rude. Late to their own classes

Cant take notes on your laptop as it "distracts her", she prints out the slides and gives it to you to take notes on, then she talks on and on about the topics while you sit there and stare at her blankly. Her class is boring and you will struggle for an hour and a half to stay awake. And concept reviews should be optional with fewer questions.

Reasons why I don't recommend Dr. Keener - They are unorganized and technologically inept. - They miscommunicate due dates/exam days - They're always late to class and holds students over because of it - They grade hard even though they don't go over the requirements of assignments - They don't allow phones or computers in class

I had Keener for psyc 105 and psyc 231. I was clueless in both classes because Keener does not teach, respond to emails, and relies heavily on the TA. You have no guidance for exams and are not given a study guide. You don't learn anything that's on the exams in class. Keener is not a good professor and extremely difficult. DO NOT TAKE

Dr. Keener is not a good professor and if you do get them, please be aware and go to the TA. Dr. Keener will not teach you anything and does not care about your grade.

The grading is not clear at all and all her lectures are confusing.

Keener was just not a good professor in general. They never answer their email and make their student assistant do everything. They don't really clarify how things will be graded and willl never warn you if there's a test or project due. They were also super mean

Rude. Passive-aggressive. Unclear. Stresses most of your grade on group work. She treats college kids like they're in an elementary school and lectures us like she's our mom or something. Overall very rude and do not recommend her. She also reads straight off the slides, so she makes attendance mandatory. Otherwise, no one would come to class.

Respectfully, avoid if possible.

She does not even teach and makes you watch the lectures that are 30min long outside of class and you still have to go to class for the full class time. She is a very hard grader and does not give good feedback. Her exams are tough and do not line up with the course work. There are fill in the blank and 6 open ended questions on exams.

Often pushing their own personal narrative of ideals and saying offensive things (in my opinion). Came off as arrogant and passive aggressive toward students. The class itself was okay, but the lectures were taught far too slow to learn all the content. Do not check the time on your phone or computer or they will call you out for using technology.

Dr. Keener is my biggest op for real. Nothing else needs to be said.

Just don't take her, avoid it, trust please.

Personally I believe that if you want to succeed in your undergrad you should refrain from partaking in Dr. Keener's courses. If you want to struggle and question your major, continue taking Dr. Keener's courses.

all I have to say is keener made me change my major. that's how much I recommend not taking a keener class.

Shame bc content is interesting, she barely answers her email, TA does all work and puts most grades in. Gives 30 question tests from 4 page study guides, skips textbook/lecture/test content to read irrelevant info to the class. She skips over lecture slides, says anything she has ever shown in class/talked about is fair game on the tests.

She's the worst, literally THE. WORST. That's the nicest thing I can day about her. Avoid at all costs.

Keener is an awful professor. Their classes are interesting in content but often just taught by reading words off of slides and making jokes that don't land. God forbid you touch your phone or have an airpod in. They also rely mostly on the teacher assistant to grade the few assignments given. If you don't mind annotating Perusall you'll be fine.

don't do it.

genuinely awful. do not take this class with keener if you have the option

For an elective this class genuinely is really tricky. She mostly relies on the TA and tests basically come straight from the book. Group projects are always assigned. She is usually not helpful and is a tough grader on the final project. Always attend class cause although it's not mandatory, she grades you on "participation." Final exam optional.

I absolutely can not stand this woman. I think they need to spend less time worrying about their identity and worry more about how incompetent of a teacher they are. First off she gives us a video to write about every Tuesday then on Thursday we barley cover the topic and move on to t

I absolutely cannot stand this woman. They need to spend less time focusing on their gender and more time reflecting about their incompetent teaching. She gives you this software site that's hard to navigate. In the final paper I've had multiple sources check it and said it was an excellent paper. She told me there was no hard work put into it.