Is there somebody who is not ashamed to admit they work at DeVry? Honest question.
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Ashame.....Snot from Pomona
dzly ...something like that...don't get me wrong...there were some great moments there...teaching runs in my family...so the couple of decades I spent in the classroom were right in my wheelhouse. But I also come from a family of scholars. And to the extent that DeVry was able to support scholarly work in return for good work in the classroom, I was in hog heaven. Then they became short-sighted, and selective. They couldn't see a couple of hundred dollars for a trip to a conference where a paper would be presented that would later be published (with the university's name attached, no less), but spend much more to send someone to Boston and someone else to Spain, and for what? Recipes for chowder and sangria? Of course, going from 15 to 8 weeks, taking course design(even book selections) out of the hands of faculty, and some questionable admissions policies began to sour the classroom experience. Too many administrators with too little intellect and too little common sense.
Hey, I rode both ITT-Tech and Everest Online all the way down. From where I sit, DVU is, like, a move up.
dqvi: I hope with a gigantic smile on your face!! The future beyond DeVry is GREAT! I left just before the switch to Canvas. That first morning, when I had my coffee and realized I did not have to answer any emails, plan for any bogus meetings, or compose threaded discussion...it was Christmas and the 4th of July rolled into one!
And now...I'm done...out...leaving on my own...
Not embarrassed or ashamed. I'm a professional, and professionals learn to focus on the things they can control. I can control what happens in my classroom. I can control my career; the professional development activities(scholarship, publications), which help lengthen my shadow beyond the university's. I can't be held responsible for the cluster flop that has felled this once great institution, to the point that we're actually paying someone to take us over. I did my job. and if the awards mean anything, I did it well. And the trouble we've gone through? I'm not responsible for that...the people who know me know that...and the people I meet read the newspapers and know I'm too far down the food chain to be responsible for any of the troubles. I'm a lion, led by donkeys.
The people who should be ashamed and embarrassed are the leadership, and those who carried out-some would say enforced- dubious and uninspired guidance with such zeal. This is going to stick with them for a long time. It's a good thing the sale looks like it will go through, so they can run out the clock secure in their positions, but doomed to face each day the fact that this went wrong, and their part in it.
I am not ashamed to work there...just very embarassed to admit that I do. I have helped students the best that could as an educator. There are folks I know that I have reached in support of their learning—and yes, a bunch of them got jobs in their fields! Wow, Imagine that! They were underserved and I helped make some kind of difference in their lives.
Yes, marketing and upper management greed wrecked it for all of us. I will be moving on soon one way or the other. In the meantime I don’t tell people where I work unless they ask—I focus more on what I teach rather than where. I have Adtalem on my resume but will drop it as soon as I get a new job.
I think, back in the day before the lawsuits etc., Devry destroyed its default goodwill by producing tv commercials for degrees. I mean which self-respecting institution of higher learning would do such a thing? This created a generic bad perception. Of course they had to rely on this tacky approach to attract the "low-hanging" fruit, i.e., the low-information customer base who ended up signing for the degrees.
That idiot RP used to send letters to Elon Musk for thanking him hiring one or two odd Devry graduate. Then he would post that letter to the entire university. These RP types s---ed even at their attempts to be con men.
DeVry should be well and truly ashamed. I, like all of my colleagues with whom I worked closely, were focused, hard working, well prepared, and did our level best to educate students. I left DeVry by choice and have never prevaricated about where I worked. The association has not hurt me. But DeVry has every reason for shame--shame on them for their treatment of students, faculty, and staff. Shame on them for putting greed ahead of education and people.
I will admit that I work for DeVry when asked directly, but I don't volunteer the information otherwise. It is not something to be proud of.
Putting Adtalem on the resume instead of DeVry actually works. I increased the rate of responses to job applications by doing that. Maybe I will be switching it to Cogswell Education soon, but I am not counting on that.
I never tell anyone I use to work DeVry: who would?
I use Adtalem not DeVry. That name hasn't been ruined. Yet.
Several excolleagues have taken Devry off their LinkedIn pages. Instead calling it higher education institution.
One former dean refused to name his place of work in a radio interview once referring it to just a "private university".
Troll alert.