...at which Herman DeVry is currently rotating in his grave. Number of rotations per minute is an acceptable format for your response but be sure to account for the Earth's underground gravitational pull (assume depth of six feet unless you can prove... — read more 

Do all of the 6 regions of DeVry micro-manage as much as the Chicago/Central region. TZ spends most of his time not only micro managing faculty,but he also has his faculty chairs do the same. In addition to this, each session, a teacher is observed... — read more 

Online education could be great, but not as it is currently approached. The pressure to "persist" students is a central problem. The student-professor (instructor/facilitator) void is also a problem--even keenly committed faculty have difficulty... — read more 

Peter Appert Got it, thank you. And I’ll direct all my questions to Pat. Yes. The DVU numbers continue to look like challenging frankly, in terms of the enrollments or here what you’re saying in terms of repositioning, et cetera. But it’s hard to see... — read more 

Revenue at DeVry University decreased 20.8%, or $25.1 million, to $95.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 compared to the year-ago quarter as a result of decreases in undergraduate and graduate enrollment. DeVry University enrollment... — read more 

Dept lost one team lead and 15 workers today

So much is making sense now if you are actually looking at faculty evaluations. You would need to distinguish between on-campus faculty and online faculty. They are worlds apart. On-campus faculty are highly invested in the success of the students... — read more 

Nobody retires from Devry University on their own. Everyone has a number and at some point your number will be called. It wasn't alway like this but over the last 20 years Devry has changed for the worse. Sadly there is a stigma for all that work... — read more 

Adtalem was the largest recipient of Federal Perkins Loans in 2015, getting $18M from the US government. What happened to all that money? And now that this flow of cash is removed, where is the difference being made up?... — read more 

Today the senior leaders of IT announced that most of the infrastructure and operations work being done for Adtalem, and the institutions, by the IT department in Downer's Grove is being outsourced to CapGemini (all in the name of student... — read more 

In your opinion what would be the best company or organization to purchase DVU to give it even a minimal chance of survival? Maybe Arizona State Uni or some other school with a lot of virtual students? Maybe Coursera or another MOOC host? Amazon? You... — read more 

Did I read this right about Carrington and Federal Perkins Loans? If so, what does this mean for Carrington? "Carrington College has recently reassigned all outstanding Perkins loans to ED, and is no longer making new awards or disbursements. This... — read more 

I heard from a reliable insider source that the ultimate plan is to shut down the Naperville building entirely, which means all the DeVry Online and Chamberlain Online employees would be remote. This would make sense, considering that a high... — read more 

You can never tell if layoffs are planned, but if HR has too many meetings with closed doors you got to be freaked out. I am in Downers Grove.

Some eerie similarities between DeVry Tech and ITT Tech. Both defunded the schools. Both refused to upgrade their computers. Both had high student loan default rates. Both had institutional loan programs with high interest rates. Both deceived their... — read more 

Was just informed of more Carrington College layoffs yesterday. Soon there won't be anyone left!!

Reactions to JB's video message to colleagues? He's not quite presidential yet but miles ahead of his blundering dimwitted predecessor. I like that Barthy acknowledged that there is a reputation problem. Finally some honesty, for whatever good it'll... — read more 

For some reason, Blackrock is showing increased confidence in ATGE. Does this mean that cost cutting is ahead sooner than expected? https://ledgergazette.com/2017/10/07/blackrock-inc-buys-new-stake-in-adtalem-global-education-inc-atge.html

The Department of Educations' College Navigator gives DeVry's enrollment numbers, but the numbers are two years old. Are all these DeVry institution's still in business? I see that some of these have really low numbers (Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee)... — read more 

Here's my latest update to my DeVry article. Rather than including the financial data, which is awful, I decided to focus on worker comments. I'd appreciate more comments about the decline, from the ground level. What's it like enrolling students... — read more 

There's lots of projects with quirky names going on in Downers Grove! One of which is to separate out chamberlain based data items from DeVry. What could that possibly mean??? Post your quirky named project here!

CEO-6.4M (2.5M raise) CFO-1.3M (500K raise) President of Chamberlain-1.3M (50K cut) President of DeVry-1.3M (40K cut) SVP, External Relations-990K SVP, Counsel-1.1M Interestingly, there is no mention of DeVry closings... — read more 

DeVry claims to have 55+ locations. Which of these locations have less than 500 DeVry students? Less than 400? Less than 300? https://www.devry.edu/universities/search-locations.html Also, I only count 20 Chamberlain campuses... — read more 

For years I have been saying that we need to start working on teach-out plans while we still have the resources to do it. I have no clue why we have not done this. Some locations have but many more locations need to, possibly all of them. Some of us... — read more 

Layoffs will continue. The consolidation of groups is just ridiculous! The Chicagoland should have closed centers (O'Hare, Elgin, Gurnee and Merrilliville). Chicagoland has centers close to the campuses where the students can travel to the campuses... — read more 

I'm from one of the locations that is being consolidated into another campus. We've been sitting here for 2 weeks wondering when our last day is, when the center is closing, etc.. Does anyone know what the heck is going on? We were told that our... — read more 

None of my coworkers are cancelling their classes on 10/9 as a protest to the sh8tty ways that we have been treated by management over the last five years. Or the sh4tty way that our reputations have been dragged through the mud and students given... — read more 

I am not kidding. The chatter here reminds me of the stories I was reading on the layoff sites for Corinthian Colleges, Education Management Corporation, and ITT Tech before they went under. Funny thing, I don't hear anything about stock shorts... — read more 

Things will not get better. Money is being thrown away on things that have no bearing on the quality of the education we provide. We just spent a bundle to move a barely-used center to a new, freshly remodeled space in a nearby building. We renewed... — read more 

My personal manager was fine, fair and good to work for. She just got laid off. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Don't even know who I report to now. I have had some good local managers. The overall direction of the company however, is to burn through... — read more 

I know there are a lot of bitter and angry folks in here, but it seems like bashing a lot of people in management positions even tho there are some that really do care. It can’t be fun to have to constantly deliver bad news to people and they need... — read more 

Devry has been in the process of phasing out for at least two years. Devry will not be sold due to the risk of legalities just phased out. It takes time to phase out and within one year the process should be complete now that most management and... — read more 

Okay, DeVry you fired all of my friends, you shorted everybody on raises, golden parachutes the clownish outgoing president who helped destroy the company, you are closing buildings and promoted the genious guy who came up with the stupid scheduling... — read more 

As I understand, DVU students were informed via e-mail, if their campus was shutting down. This was done on Thursday & Friday. No word of it to PT Adjunct/Visiting Faculty or did I "miss it"? I'm getting questions from my students in regards to the... — read more 

Should we be expecting any more layoffs today, or was yesterday it? Yesterday was nerve wrecking enough, not sure I can take another day of anticipation. I feel for all the people who lost their jobs, I hope you land on your feet and find a better... — read more 

140 people were let go yesterday, most of them faculty. I was one of them, they just did a cost analysis and decided that my salary versus an adjuncts clearly wasn’t equitable. I’ve survivable many, many reaper visits and all of my colleagues are now... — read more 

The National Student Clearinghouse numbers get worse every year. Higher education enrollment is down by 2.4 million from the peak of 2010-2011. Check out the numbers. I am projecting an enrollment loss of 5-7 million students from the Department of... — read more 

It looks like everyone is being rated lower than they should be to avoid pay increases. My IPP has no negatives on it and plenty of superlative language describing how "amazing" I have been, but that only results in a rating of "Effective/Achieves"... — read more 

According to the Higher Learning Commission website, DeVry University has been designated as under Governmental Investigation through increased monitoring as of May 10, 2017. The Massachusetts Attorney General is actively investigating allegations of... — read more