Thread regarding Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC (DCEH) layoffs

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I was in Career Services and left. I worked for an AI school for many years. I remember when grads worked one day and it was "counted" as a placement or did a small freelance and it was "counted". Things did change with the consent judgment, but what the schools did was "hide" the stats. Admissions had all sorts of tricks to not tell students that they were enrolling in had no jobs. I'm out of the vile place now, but if anyone wants to know the real stats... please send me your email. I got in trouble many times for speaking the truth. Students need to beware. Go to a community college or a vocational school. The amount of debt some poor students accumulated when they should have gone to a vocational school is horrendous. There are many wonderful teachers and staff that really do care but at the core are leaders that brainwash people into thinking they are "doing the right thing".

Let me explain what I was told today as an adjunct faculty

1. Some classes were cancelled because the lack of registered students (even at the 200 level) for continuing students

2. Some classes were re-assigned to full time faculty as their entry level on ground classes were cancelled and new students were informed of our no more new enrollment status (no one was told the school was closing)

3. Ignore the "no bumping" clause in the letter you received on Monday

4. If a class runs and some or most of the students decide to drop out, you will then be left with no students, we can then cancel the class and do not have to pay you for the remainder of the quarter

5. We will run some classes in the fall, will you be available?

So basically some of the ground leadership is trying to cover their @sses, since they are seeing a boatload of students not coming back to this s#!t show.

Students if you read this, do not come back to Ai. Take your losses, run go to a well known institution, a community college! If you are in a HLC school your degree is worthless, they have no accreditation, haven't had one since January

It's August 28, because that's 60 days as per WARN. It's the earliest it can legally let folks go given they need to give them 60-days notice.

I'm really curious as to why August 28th? That's mid Summer quarter for Ai. Are students and faculty going to show up for classes mid quarter only to find locked doors?

Isn't that a huge federal DOE problem for DCEH with students getting federal aid AND students getting the GI bill? Aside from the handful of international students, almost all students are either getting federal aid or under the GI bill.

David Halperin, you are doing a great job reporting- especially with your portrayal of Ai faculty. It's been my experience that the faculty (including my department chair) are genuinely invested in teaching but often went in with their hands tied by higher powers. In the spring quarter, I taught a class that the campus provided all the specialized equipment for. Except, they couldn't maintain a very inexpensive part of the equipment that was required for it to function. So often I had non-functioning equipment to teach my class and I had to adapt.

Speaking to a labor lawyer on Friday. Was one of the Ai employees that mistakenly received a termination letter last Saturday. Now DECH is redacting the letter that stated we would be on payroll until 8/28. They couldn't even get the address of the school correct on the letter. dumb--ses! I hope they pay.

Thank you David! You’ve been

The only reliable source for us and our students over the last week. Keep up the good work!

Good work David Halperin! As to lawsuits, I was in a faculty reduction, was s-xually pursued by a supervisor-for which I had email evidence- and they offered nothing beyond standard severance. They didn’t give a damn if I went public as they don’t care about their reputation. EDMC, DCEH- it’s the same slimy bottom dwellers at the corporate level. And with the WARN notices to all campuses, they’ve CYA on offering any severance. I predict all campuses will just shut down August 28 and everything they are telling students, faculty and staff is the big lie. I told my remaining friends who work there to clean out their desks now as someday they may just show up to locked doors. But honestly, logic told me a Pentecostal ministry wasn’t a good fit with AI from Day One- everyone should have seen this coming, Happy Independence Day!

Thank you David, if that's you. I'll be sending you some things in the near future!

Good post. I tried to capture some of this dynamic in an update to my article. I have more information, documents, and recordings from staff and may write more about DCEH's disgraceful mismanagement of this debacle. Feel free to contact me at: tips@republicreport.org

https://www.republicreport.org/2018/dream-center-closing-numerous-ex-edmc-campuses/