Thread regarding DeVry Inc. layoffs

I expect that the next layoffs will involve SSAs and Faculty Chairs because of the way their responsibilities are being pooled together. An SSA no longer has a portfolio of students and any SSA anywhere can take care of any caller, which means that any individual SSA is now expendable.

It's the same with the Chairs. Now appeals and permits are going into a queue where any available chair can handle them. They're no longer supporting just their own campus or programs. Also Visiting Professors will be reporting to some Home Office entity, so that responsibility is gone. Student Centric Scheduling is handling faculty assignments, so that responsibility is gone too. So the chair's role has diminished to the point where we could survive with fewer of them.

The main reason I'm not sure of this prediction is because it makes sense. As we all know, this is seldom the case with any Home Office decision these days.

There have been small layoffs throughout the organization. They have been happening on a small scale so they haven't been announcing them. I don't know if this is a the new norm to keep from causing a panic or if it's their version of going back and laying off the people they missed in the sweeping layoffs. I do know some have been on maternity or medical leave. I thought that was illegal but guess not.

I actually heard a rumor today about possible layoffs in December due to the abysmal enrollments for the fall. But this is JUST A RUMOR. I heard it third-hand and have no idea where it originated or who it would affect. I hope if anyone here hears anything, you'll share here with the rest of us.

People on the floor have voiced concerns about outside companies coming in and taking over our work for less money

A reason to think layoffs might be coming?? Haha...oh, maybe the fact that there are ALWAYS more layoffs at DeVry. Always...

I haven't heard of any layoffs recently, but that doesn't mean they aren't coming. We don't get any warning anymore.

Why do you ask? Is there a reason you think there might be some coming?