So do we know how many people have actually been laid off? There have been so many group ones and now they are doing smaller groups and individually. Sometimes I don't even know until I try to email or message them only to see their account is deactivated or says presence unknown.
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Here's quote from Patrick Unzicker at last week's earnings call that sort of answers the OP's question:
"In FY16 we closed or consolidated 21 DeVry University locations and reduced our total headcount by more than 750 positions, bringing the total reduction to more than 1,400 positions over the past two years."
@ILWQwld-cfyk Damaged by DeVry, are you speculating or do you know this for a fact? Some of our SSAs already believe this is the direction we're heading, so I wouldn't be surprised. EOY 2017 just seems a bit fast.
Another strategy to salvage some of DeVry's losses is to use existing campuses as anchors for new Chamberlain locations. After Chamberlain is up and running, the DeVry functions are phased out. Check it out in Seattle, St Louis? Detroit, Charlotte...as examples of dinosaur DeVry campuses...extinction is coming for all "on the ground" campuses. New model is 100% online for DeVry by eoy 2017.
I was just fired by a DeVry subsidiary. I worked there 9 years & I was also the employee who won more awards than any other, including "Instructor of the Year." My students are so upset by this, they are going to sign petitions to protest.
I'm sorry to hear you're being treated that way, but I can't say I'm surprised. They don't care about their current employees one bit, so they're sure not going to care about former ones. I would have been much more surprised if you had said that they're suddenly being good to you.
I hope they figure out the tuition reimbursement thing soon. I'm expecting to be included with the next layoff (soon according to rumors) and I too am using the tuition benefit. Keep us posted on how that works out.
Let me also say that when DeVry lays one off, you are dropped like a hot potato. When I got the paycheck after July 8 th it was an odd amount so I went to the Commons to see what was included. No access. I have no idea if I was ever paid for unused vacation, etc. I called ask hr. Talked with someone on a Monday who said she would send an email with info on how to see pay stub. Also I had tried to process my last tuition reimbursement request but my D number was rejected as invalid. HR said they would send me info on how to process. Never heard anything. Called three days later, same phone conversation with the same lack of results
Damaged by DeVry and others...when you see this clip in which Keller is mentioned with scant(less than scant) mention of the undergraduate programs, you might infer that the end is near:
https://vimeo.com/dvu/review/177470512/15d9a69d7a
My dad always said you had to dance with who brought you...apparently it's not true anymore
I feel for the full-time staff and faculty that are being laid off; is is always a very tough event for the employee.
The adjuncts have been hammered recently as well. My pay per class went down about 20% for the summer. I thought it was a misprint. Classes are usually assigned to faculty by now for the next period; due to the lower enrollments, I wonder how many classes online are being cut as well?
P.S. A good reason to seek employment with public colleges and universities, since employment is more secure, in my opinion.
Damaged by DeVry, I totally think you're right. You or someone else proposed the same theory a while back, and after thinking about it a lot, looking at the evidence, and discussing it at length with my coworkers, it holds up really well under scrutiny. Hard to poke any real holes in it that can't be explained away. I just wonder how long we'll go on before we finally fold since that appears to be the plan.
I 100% concur with previous comment. The company is will be in better position if "students" drop out now. It's strategic to help lower DeVry's liability when its inevitable demise comes.
They can only hide in the "Group" (Chamberlain, Brazil, etc.) for so long before anyone with a brain realizes DeVry can't be resuscitated - and that the head honchos don't even want it rescued.
DeVry isn't any better than Trump University. Just embarrassing for those of us who once had pride in DeVry.
Someone in another thread said enrollments are up, but when someone asked him where, he wouldn't say. Instead he responded like a jerk, so I would guess it's a lie. Nobody that I've talked to anywhere in the system has good numbers to report, but that doesn't cover every region. There could be a lucky one somewhere, but I know which regions it isn't!
Our new enrollments were just barely below plan according to our group president. But the planned numbers were still atrociously low. We did the math -- dividing our new enrollments by the number of campuses in our group, then dividing by the number of programs offered at those campuses, and we are left with barely enough new students to run classes. And this is usually our session with the greatest enrollment!
The game is clearly over. When will Home Office finally admit it? What are they waiting for?
The layoffs are coming. I have heard that many divisions are significantly missing planned new enrollment numbers (yet again).
The next earnings call for DEG is on 8/18. Over the last two years home office has quietly executed lay offs to make earnings look favorable. I wish shareholders would understand the negative impact this practice has on employees and students.
DeVry you should be ashamed.
Good observation, Damaged! We have the same suspicion about how our students are being handled since we keep doing more things to drive them away and almost nothing that would encourage them to stay. It is like we're shutting ourselves down slowly On Purpose and hoping that nobody notices.
But to the OP's question, I too would be curious to see those numbers.
Using the "Presence unknown" status in Lync has been both useful and frustrating. It's a good way to see who's still around, but it doesn't help us figure out what to do when someone we rely upon has been terminated, which has happened to nearly everyone I once dealt with directly.
Seems that DeVry has a new tactic...slow bleeding is easier to hide than the usual "mass slaughters" that became the norm over the years. Such a horrifying company!