I was passing through Blairsville today and drove past the WyoTech builings. The parking lots were almost empty. The lot around the automotive building might have had 10 cars in it and the lot around the collision building had less. I worked there years ago and at that time all 3 lots were full. The last year I worked there we had almost 1500 students on campus. How the parking lots looked today there couldn't be more than 200 students. Do they still have night classes? It sure looks like a shell of what it used to be.
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Things aren't looking good for September. Heads are starting to roll because promises were made that didn't happen. Truth out that we're way behind on numbers. Recruiting has 6 weeks left to make budget.
Bullying is a word used by a left-wing Marxist. Pull your big-boy pants up a stop whining. It is what it is. Obama's buddy, Dave Hawn, will execute his plan no matter what it is and the rich will get richer. If Everest and Wyotech fail, then it probably deserves to. Seriously, who really gives a sh*t.
Hardly a Millennial and I've worked for what I have since the age of twelve when I delivered news papers from my bicycle before and after school. I was raised in a family where we were taught not to call people names, even if we disagreed with them. It seems you were raised in a household that believes if someone doesn't agree with you, you must resort to bullying and name calling. That's exactly why WyoTech will never survive, it is now full of people that hold the same principles as you. There is so much infighting amongst the employees because everyone is on edge knowing that their time is limited.
Struck a nerve...proves me right about millennials and their mentality. It's possible that you might even have the equivalence of a 6th grade education and you're full of hate because you're a loser.
It's hard for you to hear the truth from someone who actually knows what has happened to our once great school. When people speak the truth about the demise of WyoTech into a VA benefit consumer and a second rate school at best, you turn to name calling. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH that WyoTech will never return to anything near what it once was and will most likely be announcing the teach out and closing of the Blairsville campus in the very near future. Now you can go back to licking the sweat off of Dave Hawns family jewels and continue to drink from his golden fountain.
Trolls rule this website. All the negative comments made on this website are being made by idiots with the IQ of a tomato who have never had a real job and believe they are smarter than everyone they meet. I dare say that most of the comments on this website are written by people who are not intelligent enough to write a complete sentence with a subject and verb. American high school graduates are being dumbed down a little more each generation until now where you have a society of idiots that rely on technology for everyday life and wouldn't survive if they were forced to work a real job. Life is tough, it's even tougher when you're stupid. Now, all you little trolls can crawl back into your mom's basement and eat your corn dogs from mini-mart and play computer games.
The students that want to be there, yeah all 250 of them. You love our school, even the worn out and broken down comp cars, the broken and outdated equipment and the dumbed down curriculum. No one wants to hire the graduates any more because they're nothing more than lube jockeys. Face it, if the VA cut off the money tomorrow the doors would close the following day. We'll see what happens come September, but things are looking real bad for keeping all 3 campuses going. I hope you're proud of ripping off the veterans because I'm not. This school is a joke.
The people writing on this board have no idea of what WyoTech is about or no longer work for the company. If you gave a sh-- about what you do you would stop the bull sh--. I love are school and the changes I see in the students that actually want to be there. Move on to something else if this is how you feel. Go ahead respond negativaly because you have nothing else to f***ing do with your spare time.
Yes but not for long!
To answer some of your questions: No, CarMax and Sawgrass do not recruit from WyoTech any longer. In fact, none of the national car chains recruit from WyoTech anymore. The Summer Seminars were discontinued years ago because the main recruiting push went towards the veterans instead of high schools. The campus career fairs have been reduced from four times a year to twice a year because we had trouble getting employers to show up. WyoTech has transformed from a great automotive school into nothing more than a place that cashes VA benefit checks. If it weren't for the veterans WyoTech would have closed the doors years ago.
Yes, CarMax loves to hire WyoTech graduates at $10.00; not bad for someone who just paid $30,000.00 for an education! Gotta love it! Keep 'em comin'! lol! What a frickin' scam! Students have no idea that they are nothing but fodder for the rich batards who use them and throw them away like yesterday's dirty water! Dave Hawn, you're a genius, how was that steak and lobster dinner, tonight? You piece of shit!
Wow, I asked a simple question and it looks like not too many people like WyoTech anymore. I know it was heading down hill before I left, but it looks like the bottom dropped out. We had a saying for WyoTech back then, The new kindler gentler WyoTech. We all said by focusing on attrition alone would cause it to lose it's respect with the employers. Does Carmax and Sawgrass still come to the campus and hire a lot of the students? Is the career fair still huge every three months? How about the high school instructors, do they still have the big summer seminars for them? I remember when all the big car dealerships would send representatives to the school to recruit entry level technicians.
Been there and the real "turd" as you call it is WyoTech. Great place to go if your goal is to be a lube rack specialist. If you want training to be a true technician, go to one of the others.
It's easy to talk crap about a something when you've never experienced what you're talking about. I can talk crap about Ohio being a s---ass place to live, but since I've never been there, my opinion is worthless just like the turds talking smack about Wyotech.
I also do my part to inform as many people as I can to stay away from WyoTech. Most of the good instructors are gone and the place is failing apart. Even Mazda and Volvo/Mack are looking to pull out of WyoTech because they are losing tons of money and getting very little in return. I agree with the other poster, go to UNOH, Rosedale or OTC. Those three offer great educations to veterans without ripping them off.
None of those are federally funded schools, they're all private automotive technical schools. Any one of them are 10 times the school Wyocrap is.
Right...everybody gets a quality education at federally funded colleges and universities and get the careers they want. What a joke; there are undergraduates who can't even tie their own shoes waiting on tables at your local restaurant.
Why would you refer students to a rip off like WyoTech? I refer students to Rosedale Tech, Ohio Technical College or the best, University of Northwestern Ohio. At UNOH students get a REAL education and a REAL degree. I steer students away from WyoTech every day. I know how bad it really is.
WyoTech will overcome. No doubt. Rather than question a Sheetz employee, refer students!
Dave Hawn you are a thief!!! Close these Wyoshits and stop stealing from the students who you continue to lure there. Equipment is outdated, instructors do not care and your admission's team is a joke. Students who do finish get shiyt jobs and cannot pay back their loans........ oh, wait a minute - HMMMMMMMMMM that is right up your alley.
I can't see WyoTech starting any new programs in the near future. Blairsville has been running at about 25% capacity for over 2 years. It was built to accommodate 750 students per shift. Right now we have about 250 total students and need to have 500 to 600 to break even. We haven't gotten any new equipment for over 4 years and our training cars are so outdated and most don't run any longer. Hard to train students when you don't have anything to train them with.
If Daytona was to possibly receive auto program they would have to remove the marine program. The motorcycle program already over takes a considerable amount of space. Not to mention the programs have been simplified down to accept the new generation student. Daytona always has a new trick up the right sleeve but eventually the truth seems to pull out and the leaders just walk and keep silent covering the ideas with smoke and a bathroom mirror.
It makes no sense to start an automotive program in Daytona unless they are closing Blairsville. Blairsville can't fill the seats now and all starting an automotive program in Daytona would do is split the enrollments. That's like competing with yourself for students. Does Daytona have the space to start a new program? I would have a better believing that they would move the motor cycle program to Blairsville and drop the marine part. Oh well, I'm just a peon so what would I know other than common sense.
I believe blairsville and Daytona will be consolidated... Closest place to move the equipment and Daytona has already been told they are getting an automotive program early 2017 per a previous post here.
Dave is micromanaging everything even to the point of keeping the registrars mum on actual populations of each school. The student population totals used to be common knowledge, at least on campus, yet that statistic has been deleted in the registrars emails. Keeping employees quiet and squelching information is a great weapon for destruction.
It's still a mystery if they will stay open or go into teach out. Everything is hanging on the next start and the numbers aren't looking good for what Zenith wanted. These 3 months are atrocious in population numbers.
That's such a shame. On the way back through I stopped at the Sheetz store by WyoTech and the cashier said she heard they might be closing. I asked her if she knew how many students were there but she didn't know exactly. She did say that some of the people working there told her the population was very low.
Still open and they haven't had night classes in years. Probably won't have day classes much longer either