She is one of the worst professors I've ever had. There is no focus or purpose to her course, very unorganized - just visit her office. Power point presentations are BORING, and she is a terrible speaker, gets distracted, etc. then is extremely fickle when critiquing others. Who knows what her logic is when it comes to grading?She just plain sucks!

Worst professor I've ever had at any level. Her lectures are useless. Her final exam covered nit-picky BS that had nothing to do with the material. Her discussions are very one-sided as she is intolerant of any view point that isn't her own. Her class was a miserable experience. Avoid Prof. LaVan at all costs!!

She is horrible!

By far the worst professor at DePaul and possibly any school. This is the worst experience I have had in the MBA program. She needs to retire and stop ruining the learning experience for everyone.

horrible teacher doesn't know how to teach give an online test but doesn't consider software problem. she is ignorant and if you have a different point of view she would not like you. doesn't have any respect to people and everything you say is wrong.. since we start the class we didn't study anything helpful. AVOID TAKING HER IF YOU DON'T HAVE 2

DO NOT WATE YOUR TIME IF YOU DONT HAVE TO... she is the worst ever.. she gave us a test online with open books, yet balme us of cheating... you can copy from the internet from the book from your note but you cant get help from a preson sitting next to you. she blame the all class for it can it be more crazy then that dont waset your energy in her

RUN AS FAR AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN AS YOU CAN. She's absolutely terrible! She doesnt understand the world of HR, has NEVER worked a day in her life for a company, teaches based on her own theories rather than first hand, practical application. VERY opinionated and refuses to entertain anything but her own views. Spend your tuition $$ elsewhere!

took her for dec. session. attendance counts...you have to stay the WHOLE time cause she will go through it before end of class. i didn't use the book just use the notes...either way midterm and final are hard. 60 multi choice and 5 essays through D2L timed! the journal is truly a waste of time as are the cases. boring!!!

Do not take any courses with this professor. She has bad grammar, explains things poorly, and her assignments are long, cumbersome and redundant. For example, she will ask you to 'tab' a document, when she really means that you should create a heading. She is also very biased against international students, especially from China.

It was the worst class experience in my entire student life!!! She thinks this is the only class we are taking and requires time consuming tasks!! Very tough grader on everything! The class is so boring and if you ask/answer a question she makes you feel like you are stupid. Just avoid her!

Run away. She failed a girl for showing up 25min late to class on the last day of class. Opinionated, rude, hot headed, close minded, irrational, disrespectful. Good luck if you're taking her. You can still score well though, but you should only consider if your schedule is tight and her class is the only one that fits into it.

DO NOT TAKE HER!! She is a pain in the ass and is by far the most petty professor at DePaul. She treats students like children, she always thinks she's right and its her way or the highway. Worst class ever!!!!

This class is a waste of time and money, it should definitely be an online class. She sucks as a professor and as a person. She is to pick for the littlest things and very hard to understand. She's very childish and likes to blame students for her wrong doings. She's too old and shouldn't be teaching.

I don't know why this old "witch" (with a B) is still teaching. She is by far the worst professor at DePaul, and trust me, DePaul is filled with USELESS professors. Helen is Opinionated, rude af, hot headed, very close minded, irrational, disrespectful and doesn't care if she belittles you. Please avoid taking her and try to get her out of DePaul

Do NOT take this professor !!! She is full of herself and believes her way or no way. The class time is absolutely useless. She takes attendance but we don't learn anything in class. She is an egotistical professor way past her time. She is too old and lacking technological knowledge. She has got to go DePaul.

Professor LaVan says one thing and then expects another to be done. Her classes are a complete waste of time. She thinks way too highly of herself and in all honesty, for a class that is about job seeking dos and donts in terms of job searching, resumes, and interviewing, I would NEVER have hired her. She is not nice, unclear, and nit picky. BAD!!

Not only a bad professor, but just a bad person. She refuses to meet with students until "they've done work correctly". So if you're a struggling student looking for help, don't ask your professor. She is insanely arrogant and thinks she knows everything about job searching. In reality she's outdated and suggests turning in 3 page resumes. TERRIBLE

Very rude to her students. This was an management internship class, she only believes in her way of doing resumes. Have to get it perfect or its not right. She would constantly threaten people saying "if you don't complete this, you can come back in the fall". We had a ten page paper, a couple articles to read, and a resume. DONT MISS CLASS

18 chapters , one 2K word paper, discussion posts, 2 part midterm and two part final. ALL IN 5 WEEKS !!! The woman does not understand it is a 2 credit hour class. online lectures are a joke. She mostly rests through the course when the students pay money for tuition and basically totally self learn. Instructions are extremely unclear

She is not clear AT ALL. Class is 10 weeks but gives 5 assignments all due at the end of the quarter, sounds simple but makes the quarter difficult. Her instructions are bogus and she is extremely condescending. The class in general is a joke.

I do not know why the University hire this professor like this! She does not trust her students, and she has no patient. She just trust herself! This is the worst professor at DePaul.

This is a required course, however, the design of this five-week hybrid course seems to be a joke. Her efficiency is very low, almost every lecture is listening to students' presentations, she sat down to rest. I very disappointed with this professor, all by the students speak, why I pay tuition? She probably one of DePaul's worst.

rudest and most unclear teacher I have ever had. I feel like she just talks down to her students. It is obvious she has no trust or faith in her students, she even managed to make it visible through her online course. I would spend 3-4 hours a day for 3 days straight on her assignment & Never got a perfect score.

This is probably the worst professor I have had at DePaul. Very upsetting that someone like this is teaching such an important class. No clear expectations of how assignments need to look before being turned in.

This woman is by far one of, if not the, worst professors at DePaul. The fact that she still works at this institution is an insult to both the students and the staff of DePaul. If you are considering taking her class, don't. If there are no other options, wait a quarter. She does not deserve your time, nor effort.

This professor is not worth your time and effort. She offers no help and is really disrespectful. Outlines for assignments are very vague and unclear. There is a review submission for resume assignment which should not affect your grade. I had no time to submit this and her feedback on my assignment was very snarky and offered no actual feedback.

Horrible Professor. DO NOT TAKE HER. Very sassy and disrespectful to students. Doesn't really help when asking questions. She believes her way is always right. Void taking her class if possible.

Do not take this professor. She is a very tough grader and is not helpful at all. Also very unclear. Every time I request help, she replies in a very rude way and doesn't offer further assistance. Half of my class is currently failing. It's disappointing that she's teaching such important classes required for my major. Horrible.

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!! Extremely rude and disrespectful. Does not care about her students and provides very little feedback on assignments. When I asked for help, she offers verry little help with a rude response and attitude. Dropped this class 3 weeks into the quarter. Professor should not be teaching at DePaul. One of the worst professors ever!

The absolute worst- do not take this course or find this course with a different professor.

She expects too much from a 2 credit class.

She expects too much from a 2 credit class. Her assignments are so confusing and are so unorganized on d2l. It's like she purposely makes them like that so we have to go to office hours. Her information is all over the place, makes you resubmit multiple times, and is too much work. Figuring out what the assignment is takes 80% of the effort.

Each submission isn't good enough, the professor uses scripted messages to reply on the submission tab for ur feedback. The feedback provided is very vague and not specific at all. Assignment guidelines are complicated to navigate because they are in so many different tabs. Her online lectures are super hard to follow as she speaks in slow motion.

Unclear outlines and instructions, refusal to elaborate on simple copy and paste feedback, generally unhelpful as a professor and educator. Do not recommend, horrible at everything and rude.

terrible professor. let me have an extension but refused to unlock the project i needed the extension for and has EXTREMELY unclear guidelines and rubrics. final and midterm tests weren't too bad, but the projects for HR training and HR recruiting are difficult for 0 reason.

The d2l class is very unorganized and she had to many assignments that require a lot of work that needs to go into it. She is a very tough grader and strict on her deadlines.

I am debating on withdraw or getting the class over with but was the most frustrating class I have taken so far. It is only 2 credits but is far more difficult due to the unclear instructions, lengthy strictly graded assignments and the instructions she does give are unhelpful.

This may have been the worst professor I have ever dealt with in my life. She was insulting and did not properly explain anything. If you want to ask her questions, you have to wake up very early to join a Zoom call. She is inconsiderate of how the modern-day resume is and believes she is right. Also, she is 80 years old, teaching an async class.

The course is inconsistent with industry standards for proper resumes. Their resume format doesn't align with any business sector, and their career advice is shockingly unhelpful.

Well, seems like the other reviews basically encapsulate this professor. MGT 250 (an async online class) is conveniently complemented with an incredibly unclear syllabus, more work than all your other classes combined, and assignments that make zero sense. It's pretty hard to describe how poor the quality of this class is.

I don't understand how depaul hasn't forced her into retirement yet….. her feedback on assignments makes no sense. the syllabus is terribly structured. do not take

Horrid lectures, just dryly reads off PowerPoints. Unclear instructions, extremely picky with grading. Claims you use AI content even if you haven't. Condescending, impolite, unwilling to make concessions if anything happens. If you MUST take her, do so in a less busy quarter. She makes it harder than a 4-credit-hour class. Completely out of touch.

Strict asf for a 2 credit class

She is honestly the worst professor I have ever had. She gives unclear feedback and then grades your work harshly. Not worth taking her for a 2 credit class at all trust. Also says you use ai when you didn't. I should've waited to take this class with another professor. All these rating for her are true.

For my sports fans, Helen LaVan is the Angel Hernandez of the MLB. One only wonders why she's been a teacher for so long and how she hasn't retired. Arguably the worst professor at DePaul University. Absolute horrific grading and isn't helpful when you email her. Her instructions for assignments are unclear. Her grading is tough with no explanation

Probably one of the Worst Professors at Depaul, Her D2L is all over the place, She can barely explain anything regarding her feedback, and she doesn't process anything well Avoid at All cost!

This professor should be fired. The class is fully online but the lectures she made are just links that don't work. It's such an important class but I feel actually slighted because of this teacher and how much she didn't teach or even seem to care about her students.

Very nasty lady with zero respect. Makes wrongful accusations not based on facts without apologizing. I went to DePaul to report her and they aren't on your side either. Don't waste your time or money taking this class because it'll ruin your GPA.