Sad to see Devry cratering like this. I'm wishing all who somehow remain my best. Left in 2012 before it became so awful. Management was awful then–they never asked for my laptop because they didn't want to create an Exit Interview from me.
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The non faculty staff listed are the exact same as 24 months ago. This either means things are so great that nobody wants to leave, or they’re all locked in an Orwellian time capsule, unable to break free
Wiki lists 53 f/t and 1,253 p/t faculty for 17634 students...
@11DQNJVu-hdwt : I don't know if it's a front or simple incompetence. Their catalog has been incorrect (at least for the Southeast) since 2010. They regularly overstate FT faculty listings.
The catalog lists about 140 or so FT professors. Is that a front?
Those glowing reviews are a result of staff targeting students on campus and directing the students to post high marks for the university. Basically, it's a misleading marketing campaign not representative of reality. I left a few months back, and couldn't see how this was legal. Anyway, I digress.
A good sign of organizational corruption based on highly questionable business practices is when it pays laid off employees not to talk and pressures current employees to post phony positive reviews. We hear a lot from professors on this site, but what about other full time staff?
And yet, 2012 was still a much better environment than now for most faculty.
idbn: They set up to allow their name to be dragged through the mud. I recall saying in a (then local) campus meeting that it was unethical to count those who entered with a job as having gotten their job through DeVry, and that it was unethical to count those working at McDonald's or similarly employed as working at a Fortune 500 company. Their admissions policies were also deeply morally flawed: they gave bonuses for head counts. I remember nearly halfway into a session, and admissions officer entering my class, trying to bully me into taking a new student in front of the others. They behaved like mud; they reveled in the mud. And that was in 2012–when times were "good." Their lies and prevarication, their parasitizing of students, and their bully tactics to faculty only worsened.
Who is creating those glowing GlassDoor reviews, by the way? Are they requiring that faculty post (false) positive reviews in order to keep their jobs?
You left at a very good time, before subsequent waves of pain and punishing policies were pushed upon professors. There’s a big difference between the organization you exited and what now exists. 2012 was also before the university’s name was dragged through the mud.