Thread regarding ITT Educational Services Inc. layoffs

Clearly the Indiana Charter School Board has a lot more on the ball than ACICS. Early Career Academy was shut down due to lack of personnel in key positions, financial instability, illegal activities. Meanwhile, ITT-Tech campuses carry on for years, in spite of the same issues.

ITT-Tech management continues believing in ghost employees, and now ghost bachelor programs, and ghost program offerings. ITT-Tech management promotes delusional thinking among students and employees, which is pretty sick for "educational" institute. This type of thinking is especially damaging for tech and nursing students -- after all, isn't the heart of diagnostics and problem solving dependent on accurately identifying problems in the first place?

Never fails to amaze me that ITT-Tech catalogs not only list long-gone employees in key academic positions, but also continue to advertise bachelor programs. At my campus, which has dropped from over 300 students to around 150 students, bachelor programs don't have enough interested students to actually move forward. And company itself projects dramatically dropping enrollments. But tables are set up in the hallway right now, with brochures about bachelor programs, to either deliberately mislead students or in hope of miracles.

So here we are, waiting for ACICS and ITT-Tech management to face the facts, finally, and shut ITT-Tech campuses down, and tell students what their options really are.

ITT ECA (Early Career Academy)---sounds like their usual turmoil & creating ghosts (ECA failed to notify the ICSB of the board changes)

•Governance – Seven of the eight ECA board members resigned from the board in the last few months, with five of them resigning in the first week of July (2016). ECA failed to notify the ICSB of the board changes. Currently, there are three board members. The ICSB requires charter school boards to possess expertise in multiple areas relevant to the operation of a charter public school and the ability to hold the management company operating the school accountable for its performance. The ICSB had significant concerns about the board turnover and the capacity of the current board to oversee the school in its current form.

FROM:

http://www.in.gov/icsb/2660.htm

more on the charter school & a main board member is/was also on ACICS:

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2014/12/06/itt-techs-new-charter-school-offer-free-aa-degree-catch/20003305/

Early Career Academy board chair Gary Carlson, a former ITT executive, said he is adamant about the separation between the charter school's nonprofit board and ITT's for-profit operation.

...Two men who do business with ITT resigned from the Early Career Academy board after they were asked to submit letters confirming their businesses wouldn't profit from school operations.

...Later, two prominent members of Indianapolis' charter school scene also stepped down from the Early Career Academy board.

...That left only Carlson, a retired ITT Tech executive and former chair of the agency that accredits ITT Tech. He considered stepping down, too — until he said he learned that the Early Career Academy could pick up his commuting expenses from Omaha, Neb., to Indianapolis.

"We're not going to promote or sell ITT," he said. "We're going to promote an opportunity that opens doors to students."

Early Career Academy officials say the intent of the school isn't to create a pipeline to ITT Tech. Instead, they point to a significant investment that ITT is making into Early Career Academy's start-up costs as proof the for-profit is stepping up to meet a community need.

But the financial backing also tightly ties Early Career Academy to ITT. In addition, the charter school is paying ITT to provide curricula, use its instructors and operate out of its campus on Indianapolis' Northside. While Early Career Academy is governed and authorized through a nonprofit board, its leader told The Star he was selected by ITT.

....."They were operating in violation of statute and the charter agreement for the entire year and currently are right now,” Betley told the board. He added that combined with the school’s other record keeping lapses “that, to me, just shows a dysfunctional organization.”

.......initial recommendation was to allow the school a final year so that current students could complete their degrees, but instead the board voted to revoke the charter with just 30 days notice.

“Given the number of violations that are discussed in the paper, I do not feel comfortable … giving them a year to wrap up,” said board member Gretchen Gutman. “For those 19 students it’s not fair.”

oops, reply below by @IPe4hmP-szr was supposed to be posted under thread "Kevin Modany has a pre-recorded message for campuses to watch at 3:30pm today! Has any other campuses received this update yet?"

Confused here about what Modany is talking about -- who would sue who, and what about? Is CEO just blowing hot air and saying nothing of substance?

I am confused because ACICS response to Dept of Ed final decision would be an appeal -- not lawsuit -- according to Dept of Ed website. And ITT-Tech's response to negative action from ACICS will also be appeal, not lawsuit according to ESI's own 2nd quarter financial statement. More info is posted below.

Can anyone clarify for me? Was not on campus today, am relying on Layoffs post for info these days!

Here's info from Dept of Ed, on possible ACICS appeal of SDO decision (http://www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/faqs-accrediting-agencies.pdf ):

If the SDO decides to terminate, withdraw or not renew recognition, or to limit

recognition to exclude institutions or programs and the agency wishes to appeal the

decision, the agency has 10 days from the SDO decision to file its intent to appeal, and

30 days from the SDO decision to file the appeal. The appeal would be considered by

the Secretary of Education. Once the appeal is filed, there is no deadline for the

Secretary to make a decision on the appeal. If the Secretary decides to uphold the

decision to end recognition in whole or in part, the action becomes effective as of the

date of his or her decision. In this scenario, Title IV-participating institutions are

provisionally certified and have 18 months from the date of the Secretary’s decision to

secure accreditation by another federally recognized agency to continue participating in

the Title IV, HEA programs without interruption.

Here's info from ITT-Tech on possible appeal by them against ACICS decision (http://www.ittesi.com/index.php?s=127, 10_Q filed July 29, 2016, p.80 ):

If ACICS decides at its August 2016 meeting that the ITT Technical Institutes’ accreditation should be

withdrawn through suspension of accreditation, the ITT Technical Institutes will appeal that action under ACICS’ procedural guarantees. In this case, the ITT Technical Institutes’ accreditation by ACICS

would continue during the appeal process until a final decision is made. If the ITT Technical Institutes ultimately were to lose their ACICS accreditation, they would lose their eligibility to participate in Title IV Programs, in which case we likely would not be able to continue to operate our business.