Help, how to deal with this graduation fee from EC?

My Excelsior BSN program was fine until the Capstone course, where we had the biggest tyrant for a professor you ever could imagine.

She was petty, arbitrary and hateful, and did not follow the grading rubric except when it suited her purposes.

I ended up on the phone to the FT Excelsior faculty member overseeing our section (this professor was an adjunct) almost weekly, and the reason I came out with a good grade was because she went in and re-graded my stuff according to the rubric.

The FT faculty member was sympathetic to my cause, but the higher ups were not. By the time it was over, we had an "underground" listserv 30-students deep to discuss the treatment we all suffered at her hands, and compare notes as to how we had successfully had our work evaluated fairly...or unfairly as the case may be. Several of us had already consulted attorneys about violations of the syllabus, and therefore the contract between the students and school, as defined by New York State Law.

For instance, I was the editor of the group paper, because I am the APA Queen. I formatted and cited that paper straight out of my APA manual, and she wanted to dock us points because she didn't like how I had cited. The FT faculty member finally looked in her *own* APA manual, on the page number I gave her, and saw that I was correct in how it was cited. I have never worked so unnecessarily hard for a grade in my life.

Several other little things that happened - they don't do "pins" anymore, and I was to get pinned by my mother during church on graduation Sunday, despite my asking them several times - that left a bad taste in my mouth.

They're in it for the money. My education wasn't all that great - much of it I already knew from OJT - but someone else might get more out of it that I did. I have an issue with having to artificially manufacture something to say on someone's post who appears to be barely literate. The class I got the most out of was Teaching Across Cultures and Professional Socialization, not because I learned much, but because it gave me an opportunity to do a couple of pet projects for my head nurse while getting a grade for them.

It got me where I wanted to be - CRNA training - and it was in the format that I needed it - distance education - but the whole Capstone thing was hellish enough for me to not want to ever have anything to do with them ever again.

If I would have had the option, I would have dropped this evil woman's section and taken someone elses...I hear the other students had a MUCH better experience.