Since the DOE has demanded all this occurs why have they not demanded the school help students by either making an agreement with another school to accept our credits OR remaining open until the currently enrolled students have completed their degrees? A lot of students have quit jobs to go to school full time to be successful in school, spent hours driving in traffic, rearranged schedules, and served inconvenience to their children/family, and more. It is disgusting that the DOE states they are protecting students by doing this...it seems greedy. Current students are getting screwed!! Speaking for myself and my classmates in canton, mi...we did not waste a year of our lives to be told our credits don't transfer and we are basically out of luck!! Our school has told us jack sh*t about what's going on and we are due for restart of classes on 9/12. We are getting zero answers. Sorry but "we are working on it" does not provide me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Faculty/staff are dropping like flies! Why is no one protecting the current students!? Anyone here from canton who knows if they are doing a teach out or finding another school to transfer us to?
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Don't get mad at your local Camus staff. We are just as much or more in the dark then you are. We have not been told anything except maybe today or tomorrow earlier in the week and as of yesterday maybe on Tuesday.
No one has said anything about a conference call today but there is one usually in the afternoon... There has been no real info on them. Our admin had commented earlier we are no longer able to access toner supplies from our vendor. Who knows if that means anything.
Make sure you inform yourself about the loan forgiveness option if your campus closes before the last student can graduate (i.e. the teachout fails). ITT tech has to deposit a letter of credit with the DoE for just that purpose so those funds are available to students. Most schools won't tell students about this since that is money out of the school's pocket but that way you can get your money back and then decide - start over or do something else.
If you get your money back and you want to start over - go to a community college to start over. Same degree, much cheaper and the diploma will actually mean something. Community colleges now have capacity because the recession is over and we are at full employment in the US.
Beware - most colleges, including community colleges, do not accept ITT tech credits. The academic levels of the coursework for an ITT tech class does not meet standards at most colleges. I work for a for-profit and we have stopped accepting ITT tech credits because the students simply do not have the skills their transcript says they should have. I'm glad they are finally shutting that place down. It was a joke that preyed on the naivete of first time college students.
I know that...but how do we know the school is even working on a teach out? Idk why anyone would want to start over?? I've put too much energy and time into my education to just go down with nothing to show for it.
The DOE has asked that ITT provide a teach out plan. But we all see the same as you, no communication yet on if they will do it or any details. Sorry you are going through this. I would suggest you get hooked up on facebook with itt tech warriors. They have a faq document and some fairly good discussion going on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITTTechnicalInstituteLawsuitWarriors/?fref=nf
It's a facebook group you join and they belong to the debtcollective.org
We are all swimming in a sea of non-information here.
If you take the teach out your Itt tech loan follows you. If you don't you can start fresh.