Thread regarding Zenith Education Group layoffs

Changing diapers, one day at a time. Uh, I mean, "changing lives, one diaper at a time." This place is such a f---ing joke!!!

What was needed was something much different than a media campaign and a new name. Over a year later, and we still the ghosts of CCI all over the place (mail.cci.edu) is just one example, online training programs for IT security is all CCI start to finish, and the list goes on. Any change takes time but it also takes someone to plan, manage, and execute it anyways. With all the CCI-era RIFs, plus the post acquisition RIFs, restructuring, layoffs, change in management, and it's a wonder that the payroll is still made on time.

What sense does it really make to try to make people "think" it's different when really nothing has been effectively changed yet anyway. The latest round of restructuring should put the nails in the coffin of the old CCI- let's enroll anyone so long as we can package them and get them to show up for the first day of class. Unfortunately, there were a lot of effective leaders that got tossed out in the name of change. Next round is bound to trim more of the redundant faculty, admissions, career service, etc. positions in order to get the leanest possible labor force to match the withering enrollment numbers. Those campuses that figure it out will survive and the campuses that don't will close. It is that simple.

Dumb arse

How do the employees on campus increase enrollment? ECMC/Zenith Education Group kept the same toxic names on the buildings, continued with the same advertising developed by CCi, maintained the same websites and used the same recruiting practices as CCi. If Dave Hawn and ECMC were serious about changing things they would have changed the name, done a media and advertising blitz emphasizing the change of ownership and the conversion to non-profit. Actively recruit competent and experienced upper and mid level management plus hire an all new admissions team with experience in recruiting for non-profit education. Instead he continued with business as usual and his upper level idiots adopted the same business plan that CCi was using trying to cut their way to profitability by terminating over a thousand employees. Guess what, it doesn't work. They still lost almost $200 million and continue to lose millions every month.

Recruiting has to be the biggest joke yet here at Zenith-Land. First leadership would have to pull its over educated head and ego out of its, well, err, posterior parts. Then, Dave would need to hire someone who understands how to recruit students and the dynamics of potential students from different regions, backgrounds, cultures, you know...demographics, etc. Then, you would need to train recruiters to work with specific types of people such as the younger population, non-traditional students, veterans, etc. Then, you would need to understand the difference between destination schools and local population schools. Oh, and yeh, you would need to send recruiters out into the population to recruit. Dave, you would need to build and pay for an infrastructure for this to occur, if you had an honest bone in your body. But, we know you don't and this is all a big facade to placate the government and fill your pockets with more money from the masses of stupid people that you use to accomplish your goals...filling your pockets with more money.

1hvz - congrats on the dumbest post ever on this site (which is saying something). Yes, let's throw Hawn in prison for not continuing to spend money on failing schools. The employees had their chances to increase enrollment/job placement and they failed -- and this goes well before Zenith took over.

Hawn is asking people to give him a chance! Are you kidding me? How much chance did he give to the thousands of people who their lives have been ruined by him? No chance given to any of his employees. He needs to present himself to a jail cell!