Thread regarding Zenith Education Group layoffs

No the issue is zenith should have rebranded , you need a business course . Idiots

12V4, will your optimism change if and when you are terminated? Will you feel Dave and his management team did the right thing for the good of the company by dismissing you from your job? Would you still believe it was necessary to RIF you and many of your close coworkers to turn the company around? Is it possible you would feel the ship is heading in the right direction once you were thrown overboard? I believe your answer to the above questions would be no. Until you're in that position you could never answer those questions honestly.

1jil: I guess I fit in as one of your "naysayers" although I would prefer the tag "pragmatist". I simply look at the facts and trends, decrease the emotion and come to the logical conclusion that executive management is either unable or unwilling to create positive change. Either way, the unhappy outcome is already known. Granted, market conditions are extremely difficult, but leadership is doing NOTHING. Why is that? I would love to be proven wrong. I keep waiting for the hopeful optimists to deliver some solid facts upon which to base their position. There are, unfortunately, many facts that support mine.

Is it just me or the a lot of these posts look familiar? These same type of posts were on here back in February and March. It even goes back to the CCi layoff blog right after the announcement that most of the schools were sold and our jobs were saved. People started posting that once Zenith got up and running there would be massive layoffs. Others argued that everything would be fine and Zenith would take us in the right direction. Once people found out we were sold and was now a non-profit company students would be lining up to enroll in our schools. The naysayers kept saying the enrollment would keep decreasing and many would lose their jobs. In late April the naysayers were proved to be correct. Then again in June and September they were proved correct. Now again people are bashing the naysayers saying that Zenith is heading in the right direction and things will be ok. Well we have another month to see which is correct. My money is on the naysayers, how bout yours?

Take a look at all the other schools in this industry and you will see the same enrollment trends. The entire post secondary education industry as a hole, for-profit and non-profit, is struggling with decreasing enrollment. There have been thousands of employees laid off and many campus closures throughout the industry. Personally I expect Zenith to survive if they can make the right decisions on closing the worst of the underperforming schools and consolidate many others. With so many schools and declining enrollment they are not only competing with many other education companies, they are also competing with themselves. Can they make two big WyoTechs profitable again or should they focus on just one. Laramie WyoTech can hold over 2000 students but have less than 300 students on campus. Blairsville can hold over 1500 students but have around 300 on campus. Both are hemorrhaging money and employees so wouldn't it make perfect business sense to consolidate them and focus on rebuilding at least one. The same goes for many Everest schools also. Yes Zenith can survive, but not at the current number of schools.

1NMS: Nobody can provide proof that Zenith will close. However, people with half brain can see the facts and the results of Zenith thus far and, figure out for themselves that the Zenith experiment is a complete failure.

You say "frighten". I say "enlighten". If reality is frightening, so be it. I will continue to challenge status quo and encourage people to look at the situation realistically until management takes decisive action (RIFs don't count) to improve enrollment. "Working with a marketing company"? What does that mean? I have yet to see a single action or cohesive plan to improve enrollment. Optimism is fine - if it has a basis in fact. If rea

I don't mind the speculation, but it's when people on this site would have others believe their opinions, and might I say most aren't qualified, are facts. They are simply not. I know the company is working with a new marketing agency to try and get things turned around. I believe the local marketing activities and community engagement will bring more people through the doors, but it's going to take some time. I see the daily enrollments on the flash and they are low, but I believe in the end, thus company will survive and thrive. I say this because I am an optimist and I believe in what we do. We CAN turn ZEG into a great company but we will continue to right size and lose a lot of good people in the process. So to all the detractors and haters, I know you will continue posting BS information in an effort to frighten people, but I and others like me will continue to call you out.

Burden of proof lies with management to demonstrate that they intend to do something - anything - to improve enrollment. Otherwise, all speculation is fair and warranted.

Tell you what anonymous, you provide us proof that ECMC plans to shut down all the remaining schools or forever STFU. At least have the common decency to say that you're providing an opinion, and don't present it as fact, but then again your opinion is purely speculative with no foundation of truth.

Reasonable business men and women do not jump into a significant venture "hoping" things will improve. Hope is not a strategy. What actions has ECMC/ZEG taken to improve enrollment? Can you name three?/ Two? They didn't even change the name of the most toxic school brand in the industry. There is no plan to grow, or even to stabilize. The plan is to systematically wind down the business in order to leave students liable for their loans - ECMC core business. ECMC wins. DOE wins. Students and employees ? Not so much........