I don't and haven't for a long time. I've started looking, anyone else? Don't feel comfortable at all anymore, like the axe could drop at any moment. I wish they'd tell people what's really going on.
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I submitted my grades for the March/April session...well inside the deadline. In doing so, I breached another deadline; I'm inside the deadline for a planned departure from the university. Enough is enough.
There is no academic rigor at DeVry. 60% of the people passing through the classes are functionally illiterate and remain so due to the substandard class design and pressure from managers to "reconsider" low grades. The class difficulty level is set to about eighth or ninth grade.
How can there be good student outcomes from this situation and why doesn't anyone seem to care (see rising stock price)?
With the upswing in stock value means that the bonus & referral programs will no longer be gutted--they will be able to bring these back to the levels that most employees fondly remember. It will feel great again to have that perk, since so many others have been cut.
How does this end? It sounds like courses have been gutted and students are not college ready?
How can there be good student outcomes from this situation and why doesn't anyone seem to care (see rising stock price)?
Is the ratio of full time vs part time instructors going to be maintained? It seems like more managers than staff lately. Benefits get worse each time---where is this so-called rebound/turnaround taking us?
I remember the lock-step system. It was the only reason that eight week sessions cold be justified. Now we have the worst of both worlds -- short sessions that aren't helping to speed up graduation due to the few course offerings and many cancellations. There is no excuse for eight week sessions anymore but DVU will never give them up and go back to our better days because we're "forever forward."
I just wonder if there is anyone left who remembers the lock-step programs where students didn't have to pick and choose classes that may or may not be offered? The three year bachelor's programs were finished in three years by the majority of students. No hoping that the courses needed for graduation were offered. This used to be a huge selling point.
My classes this session are all double-digit too but just barely. The only reason we get double digits is because we don't give the students a lot of options. By offering few and then canceling most of them, we force them into a small set of classes thereby raising the registration counts in those classes. National management considers this metric as a sign of success. The students disagree.
I have double digit enrollment in all my classes
Most classes have single digit enrollments. Not sure how the doors stay open.
Just because the stock is up, does not mean that the enrollments are or any improvement has taken place!!! Take a look at your campus stats. Short-term price fluctuations can't cover up what the faculty sees every day.
Hopefully, now that the stock is up & somewhat steady the enrollments will go up and we can feel a bit more stable. Not much advice yet from the top brass, but nothing negative.
For the newbies, it was always a pot set aside for raises, divvied up according to longevity and popularity. Then, your manager fudged the performance review numbers to make sure you received the prearranged amount. But the department total was fixed. My favorite was "You are all excellent, so you are all average. Here's your average raise."
Squeaky wheels get the grease, but don't expect much if the pot is already determined.
The instructors need to bring up the raises issue. If you don't ask, you won't get. But it needs to be done as a team. Ask why the instructors are viewed poorly--is it one or two laggards bringing down the whole team? Find a common solution and work with the others to correct any issues.
A raise is an increase in compensation that exceeds the rate of inflation, which has not happened for DeVry instructors for more than 10 years because all increases in compensation have gone into the pockets of the greedy, selfish managers.
"they have not been given a raise in more than 10 years" What makes you say that? That just doesn't jive. Who doesn't respect the instructors? Has this been brought up with the director?
DeVry is going nowhere but down. The managers are living in fantasy land. They expect instructors to be student-centered when they have not been given a raise in more than 10 years, the pay is now the lowest in the industry, and the instructors are treated with a complete lack of respect, just like McDonalds workers. Get a clue - the way students are treated is a direct reflection of how instructors are treated. Devry is currently a fourth-rate training corporation enrolling people who are too stupid to look anywhere else and who are easily conned into believing the false claims of the managers.
I feel fine but I work in the registrar department....... we aren't going anywhere
I wish they'd tell people what's really going on.
...Nothing is going on, everything is going down the dismal drain. Why pay attention to the lip-syncers in the 3-piece suits? Have the instructors been given reasonable raises this year? Are the entrance standards for students being raised? These are pretty simple questions. Is it a college or not?
Anyone with a brain is and has been looking.