Thread regarding DeVry Inc. layoffs

These borrowers have a long, uphill battle to prove their case, but I don't blame them for trying. When I worked there in default prevention and observed that just 2 of 50 observed students from DeVry/Keller had paid down their loans 3+ years out, when several of the borrowers owed over $200K from prior for profit schools and were given the maximum loan amount possible no questions asked, I knew something wasn't right - this wasn't how this is supposed to work. The problem is I actually cared about our reputation.

Yes, and everyone within the academics segment of the university knows this. The perverse emphasis on the end-of-course student evaluation ratings, averaged and carefully monitored as a singularly bogus proxy for academic and teaching quality to assess and manage DVU professors’ careers, is an insult to these dedicated professionals and an outright travesty. This is where we are and who we’ve become as a result of the neglect and incompetence that led us to this desperate place. There may still be a few Kool-Aid-drinking dunderheads out there who do not fully grasp the situation. However, I believe most faculty well understand that this warped focus on student end-of-course evaluations, and their use as a silent lever in forcing professors to pass nearly all students regardless of capacity and effort, is another indicator of the ultimate demise we face. At all levels of the organization we see behaviors and policies like this that are reactive, small and wrong while fighting to survive another day. What a way to end a career, though anyone paying attention knows it probably won’t be very long at this point.

Wow! And everyone goes along with this?

xdf: Your comment below misses the point and shows a lack of understanding about how the system is intended to operate. Through a variety of “creative means,” professors successfully manage to somehow continually pass all of these questionable students with surprisingly high grades, even though low-quality or no assignment work is submitted, thereby maintaining the vast majority of students as very happy and satisfied customers from term to term. The students respond in kind with very high ratings on their professors’ end-of-course evaluations, thus validating the quality of academic instruction evidenced by an average score of 3.6 or above, the arbitrarily established requirement for professors to keep their jobs up to and hopefully through the next upcoming faculty purge. This process enables management to subsequently identify “star faculty” characterized by the highest student satisfaction ratings and pass rates. These “star faculty” are then elevated as lead faculty in current academic initiatives designed to ultimately reduce the total number of instructors across the university to less than ten, with each instructor overseeing an aggregated class section of approximately 1000 students in each course. Please understand that while not explicitly delineated in the faculty handbook, this is how the system is designed to work, and each professor must understand this in order to teach at DVU. Got it? (wink, wink)

What? Thousands of former students feel ripped of because they cannot pay back their loans? You are kidding me? I thought these students were properly vetted.

DeVry is listed as defunct along with ITT and Corinthian...bad reporting or amateur prophecy hour?