DeVry has several partnerships with large corporations to provide education benefits to their employees. Internally this is celebrated, but this article does a great job at presenting the bigger picture and asking some very reasonable questions.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/a-dubious-benefit-big-emp_b_10185936.html
@HE0E8Am-6mre, I added your words to my article on "Deceived by Devry" and the student debt movement. I have worked with professors, librarians, and even recruiters to get justice for students. I'm not sure how many Devry students know about this--compared to thousands of students at Everest, the Art Institutes, and ITT Tech. Are you willing to help in the movement, even anonymously?.............................................. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devry-headed-wrong-direction-dahn-shaulis?published=u
I can tell you, professor. It's called "plausible deniability" or "ignorance is bliss". The only thing admissions people care about is getting new students to sign up. Once they are in, admissions moves on to the next one, so they don't know what happens to students after that. They can tell prospective students how great everything is because they don't know what students go through after the admission process is done. That's my theory anyway.
No, I thankfully have nothing to do with admissions. I would never have been able to live with myself if I were. No amount of money or benefits is worth selling your soul for. I don't know how they keep a straight face. It's downright chilling that they can. Besides, I think the tuition benefit may only be for faculty and academic deans. Not sure.
No, I'm a professor. I get to play a small role in helping students get some value for their investment, in spite of the way they're marginalized by the university as a whole.
It's an uphill battle though, as the company only cares about getting new students through the door these days. It makes me sick. I want out but the tuition contract has me shackled. I should be grateful for it. After all, it is one of the main reasons I took the job in the first place. But I hate being associated with this greedy, misguided corporation. I entered academia to use my knowledge and experience to improve the lives of others. Someday I hope to work for an institution that has the same goal.
@HE0E8Am-5sgn, so you get your Ph.D. from a real college and the Devry students get screwed? Sounds like a mini golden parachute. Are you an enrollment person?
@HE0E8Am-3zsq, that is an incredibly familiar story to me. I'm in the exact same boat as your friend. I'm about halfway through a Ph.D. for which DeVry is reimbursing most of the tuition. The contract clearly states that if I must remain with the company for three years after the final reimbursement is made, or I have to pay it all back. Fortunately, I know from my terminated colleagues that if DeVry chooses to let me go, then I'm free and clear of the obligation. I just keep hoping that I'll be part of the next round so I can get out of this contract and move on to better things.
Oh he would never have attended devry. He's just using the tuition benefit to get a phd somewhere else. He told me he turned down the chance to get a keller masters degree for free because the programs offered there are useless crap. Hed rather pay for a decent degree than get a devry/keller one for free.
@HE0E8Am-2zbo, if that's true, it's awfully ironic. If he leaves he has to pay back the tuition. If he stays, he gets to work in a sh*t job and ends up with a degree that i srapidly losing its value. At least he can probably understand how other Devry students can feel so trapped. It's called the "sunken investment theory."
I have a friend who works for Devry and he says the only reason he's still there is because of the tuition benefit. He has a contract that says he has to repay everything they gave him if he leaves the company before a certain time. He hates it. Well he loves the tuition money but hates being stuck in a company he doesn't like.
And before I was downsized at Devry, devry cut all their support for their own employees taking classes at other institutions. Hamburger took all the money. F U daniel hamburger...you little piece of dogshit.