Things are going good and enrollment is looking great for the next start. It looks like UOP and EDMC are both going under with big layoffs and campus closures going on at both companies while Zenith is picking up big time. I'll thumb my nose at all the naysayers and worthless ex-employees. All we had to do was close the worthless campuses and throw out the trash. The Kool-aid sure quenches the thirst. Haha
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125 wow, not good. They keep telling us things are looking better for September start but what happens after that? Seems like we are holding steady at 250 to 350 students but I don't know how long we can survive at these numbers. I remember the days of 1200 to 1500 students. We'll never see anything close to those numbers again.
250 students.........there are about 125 of us in Daytona. The Boat side has 7 new people. One of our teachers is clueless on his class subjects because the good teacher resigned.
WyoTech has relied on the veterans for student bodies for years. When enrollment budgets aren't going to be met they send the recruiters to the military bases trolling for enrollments. That's the only thing keeping the doors open. We just keep preying on the veterans to keep our jobs.
You're right about WyoTech, it's about 70% veterans that make up the student population. It's been that way for years but they are running out of veterans to enroll. There used to be 1500 students with about 50% veterans now it's 250 students with around 200 veterans and half of those are just there to use up their VA benefits with no intentions of working in the automotive industry. Definitely see a consolidation of the WyoTechs coming soon.
Wasn't Fort Worth on the teach out list? Many campuses lost their president, that was announced in April.
Simple you go after military,its a cash cow and they keep milking the cow. The WyoTechs are mostly military enrolled. Our teachers are ex military so it all balances. Tax payer money what better place to slip your hand in when no one is looking. Now if you want to show placement rates it could be another problem. A number of the military are already medically retired. The student may not be trained for current career opportunity but we will educate them.
Hard to believe when the Fort Worth campus lost the Dean, Director of Career Services and the President all to layoffs in one day. They would still need these leaders if they were just "downsizing"... Stop trying to be positive. The end is coming.
There may be a few more moves before the end of the year, but nothing drastic is going to happen. Those writing about big changes coming in June have no clue and are just trolls and ex-employees trying to scare people. The big changes have already been announced and many have taken place. No one expects the schools to ever be as large as they once were that's why there have been closings and large reductions in staff.
Even the three stooges are more capable of recruiting that Zenith management and the recruiting team members certainly are Moe, Curly, Larry, and Shep. Zenith is as big of a joke as this year's elections.
OP: Please give us some data to support your comment. Stop giving false hopes to the people who are still around and looking for another employment.
We were told our campus is doing ok. We haven't lost any staff since last September. Some job titles changed but all the same people are still here.
So the way to grow a school is to NOT market and to rid yourself of the people who drive revenue???
What a way to go out!!
We lose more that we enroll. Students are NOT happy and leaving. How is that picking up???
Leads have dried up.
OP - Good to see that your lobotomy was successful.
Student population is around 13,000. I saw the report and the forecast. It is not looking as bright as the OP says. I also know that are leads are drying up and our daily leads are 20% of what they were. Something like 2k when they used to be 20k
Hope they all close by the end of the year. The students should all go to their local community college for a far better education at a quarter of the cost. The career college sector has been dying a slow death for the last five years, both for profit and non-profit.
There are a handful of Zenith owned schools that are recuperating after the CCi purge, but there are more consolidations and school closings yet to come and very soon. The CCi pillaging was disastrous. Zenith is doing everything within its power to save what is savable, but honestly, the lack of proper over site and too many unqualified employees from professors and instructors to campus management and the pond scum at the top of the corporation, the schools didn't have a chance. It looks like Dave is committing some of the same atrocities as his predecessor. Dave Hawn, I hope you're reading this, because you need to know that you have hired people at the corporate supervisory level who don't know their a*s from a hole in the ground. And the micromanagement is choking the life out of the worker bees! Set my people free! Hopefully, there will be a Zenith still existing in June.
Not joking, things are really improving here.
Evidently, someone doesn't understand sarcasm...bruuuuuuuuhahahaha!
Please tell me your joking! If not, you apparently have zero access to what is really happening. Population is on a continuous downslope in our schools.