Online tutoring is a joke. Leadership thinks tutoring is going to help students who don't attend class and do not submit assignments. DeVry is a sad punchline to a bad joke.
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it looks like the strategy is to keep the shells of campuses intact in various regions and use them as recruiting bases for the online sections where each section is filled with 40 students. and make visiting professor provide "online tutoring" for "devry care" while waiting for a buyer.
a wise person once told said that perception is reality...If we seem to be in disarray...confused...unprepared...what will the rest of the world think?
doesn't laying off full-time faculty break the accreditation rules aka HLC?
A problem seems to be where all the states with NO campus locations are going. Example: KY, ALA, Mississippi. There are many VP's in those and other areas unless we are reducing our offerings down to a slim few. This uncertainty is being caused due to a vague announcement that was made with little if any of the details being fleshed out except the layoffs of course. Now, we have about 5 weeks to get what is left lined up, scheduled and ready to teach. Why would I ever think a comprehensive, detailed plan would be presented??
Any layoffs and if so, where?
140 people were let go yesterday, most of them faculty. I was one of them, they just did a cost analysis and decided that my salary versus an adjuncts clearly wasn’t equitable. I’ve survivable many, many reaper visits and all of my colleagues are now gone as well, so my number was up. They are just keeping around the cheaper people, especially those who do the jobs that’s other roles should be doing. The sad thing was that this didn’t need to happen. Campus enrollment is down because of that stupid system for central scheduling that never, ever worked. We always scheduled our classes, we always had decent enrollment. It was a long, slow suicide pact that emptied the classrooms. There’s a huge amount of online students out there that want to be in classrooms. Really, really dumb. That aside I’m not at all bitter, I really liked working with my students, led them towards good outcomes so felt like all those years were worth it. That aside, about 5 years ago they started making some stupid decisions that have led to this.
The new group model is survival of the fittest. Let the backstabbing, undermining, and scheming begin! Trust no one. Your job will never be safe again as long as you still have colleagues. There are only so many "exceeds" to go around and there will be less next year (assuming we make it that far) if there are any around. That's what they want. Time to make yourself look good at the expense of everyone else. It's at least a sanity outlet for the crushing paranoia bearing down on us. How long before the next layoff? Every day is now suspect. Document everything
@PmTxx2H-1taw, the new groups are these five:
Northeast (NY, NJ, PA, OH)
Southeast (GA, TN, NC, VA, FL)
Central (IL, IN, KC, OK, CO, TX)
West (CA, AZ, NV)
Out-of-Market (I wonder if they'll still call it Group 9 when there are only five groups.)
what's the new group model?
DEM Management gone, Student Central management gone and some faculty...gone. This is a trend with DeVry
Does anyone know if the "faculty adjustments" have been communicated yet? If so, how was it done?
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