Did I miss an email or something? There were layoffs in Finance last week and some at Home Office and IT. Did they deem these people not special enough to warrant an email and let us know?
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I have come across one vet from Ross who wasn't too bad. Otherwise I don't know how good their education is. Still way overpriced.
However I have had some nurses who were CCN graduates who probably wouldn't have cut it at other nursing schools. They were at best incompetent. One apparently missed nursing 101 where you learn to NOT give someone a medicine they are allergic to.
Ross University School of Medicine preys on US students that do not get into stateside universities. They sell the dream of becoming an MD and make students pay a kings ransom to make this dream come true.
@scoobydoobiedoo, your entry is a common response: "you get what you put into it." Ross students also face a risky proposition if they do not graduate or fail to get a residency.
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My vet went to Ross. He is a great vet, very knowledgeable. Its what you put into it. Ross is kind of a good thing because medical and vet schools stateside have very limited enrollments. The residents get placed into hospitals in the US, and they don't seem to have an issue with their education. There are a lot of drop outs because people try, and fail, only because med school might not have been for them. They have to pass the same exams to practice as any other resident.
Can't believe any student would go to a medical univ associated with DEG
@Nervous about Ross University, the problems at Ross have been around for awhile. It was only a matter of time.
"Senator D--k Durbin has publicly called out Devry for problems at its Ross Medical School, which indicates trouble ahead if the company does not reform itself."
"Dropout rates at the (Ross University) school are 10 times higher than those of traditional medical schools and only 52% of students manage to graduate from their program on time."
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As a Ross University School of Medicine colleague I am very nervous about what is happening at RUSM.
Rumors are swirling that our incoming fall class is falling very short of budget and expectations. Upper management at RUSM seem tense and concerned. Whispers of pending layoffs are starting to circulate especially with the emergency meeting that was held last week here in Miramar. RUSM leadership basically locked themselves in a room with representatives from DMI who came down from New Jersey. This meeting has everyone very nervous about our futures.
Anyone hearing anything?
21 people in home office I.T. department were given notice on the 15th, but CIO "won't name names, that will be communicated appropriately at the appropriate time." This is classic obfuscation and just another play from the "keep quite and it will go away" crisis management runbook for this leadership team. The fact that CIO is re-aligning groups and merging them to "reduce the high number of individual departments within IT" is telling.
Also according to CIO, "This was requested by the institutions to align home office cost to institution enrollment levels." Remember kids, the Ivory Tower always cuts last. It is all the schools and other locations that had to suffer reductions before we turned our gaze inward and thought about reducing staffing in home office.
Further to what has been written above, the rumor has it that DMI (Ross/AUC) missed plan for enrollment - but again, rather than "acknowledging reality" as we were told to do with Speed To Trust, leadership is again keeping a tight lid and trying to do damage control. If this is true, and the August Call will give insight, it is astounding how quickly one of the two golden children (Brazil being the other) have fallen.
DEG will be exposed soon!
DeVry has been playing the 'shell game' over the last year to cover up the massive declining enrollment within all their divisions. With the exception of Chamberlain and DeVry Brazil, enrollment across all organizations is massively down against lowered plans and prior year.
There are only so many layoffs that Lisa Wardell and Patrick Unzinger can execute before the truth about decreased enrollment and its affect on the balance sheet becomes public. When the market hears how bad this quarter is and how dismal the future quarters look, the stock will plummet to record lows for the organization.
Covert layoffs continue to happen almost daily and other talented colleagues across the divisions continue to jump ship on their own terms.
DeVry was once the shining star of market funded schools. Now it is a flickering light with batteries that are about to run out.
Sad, very sad.
What is really crap is that after all these layoffs and the ones still going on in a hush hush manner, they are hiring. Not sure what dept but there have been groups of new hires in our lobby several mornings. Those older colleagues who are left are overworked, given impossible workloads that you can't meet. If they can't meet them then they do not get raises or they can use that to lay off. Hire new people at lower pay grades. Hire, promote, layoff, repeat. Gotta love that Devry UNcare.
Is there any where devry employees can shoot the sh-- about daily things going on? Just for fun? Lots of things to chat about but cannot with dawn I mean dahn I mean Camden around
@Is6ZMWT-1vpz, the mainstream media generally don't care--unless there is a big story. That's why I write my articles. For a time, their disinterest may have had to do with DC insider (and Clinton friend) Heather Podesta lobbying for DV.
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David Halperin (Huffington Post) knows about the site.
I wish the press knew of this website so they can see what is happening with 'crooked' DeVry.
They do small layoffs so the press doesn't get wind of them.
Not DEM
does anybody know which department?
A handful of people were fired at Naperville on Friday but I don't know who.
Layoffs have become a part of the normal culture with DeVry. Upper leadership, the geniuses that they are, likely figured there was not a reason to communicate yet another downsizing. Anyone else notice the latest downsizing strategy? It's never a big system wide layoff, it's a few people here and a few people there, but it is ongoing. What a terrible environment to work in.
I cannot wait for the August Investors Call. With the latest July Class debacle for DeVry, continued carnage at Carrington and rumors that the medical schools (Ross and AUC) are tanking the outlook must look miserable. It is all riding on Chamberlain and DeVry Brazil these days.
Do you think Danny Hamburger is somewhere laughing?
Find your lifeboats, this ship is sinking.