I’m disgusted at how misinformed we were in admissions. At my campus, we were told that we were not for profit and regionally accredited. Now it seems like neither of those things were true. We were told that now that Ai had been acquired by the Dream Center, student tuition would no longer go to greedy investors but instead back into the development of the school through scholarships, institutional grants, updated technology, a food pantry, etc. We told students these things and they made life altering decisions based on the faulty information we gave them. I know that our director was told these things as well and we all genuinely believed them. At my campus, admissions really cared about our students. Now it’s apparent that we were lied to and used to con students out if their loan money. I feel angry and used. I can’t begin to know how our students feel.
Was this the experience at other campuses? Did others know the things we told our students were untrue? Did admissions at the HLC campuses know you were unaccredited? Did admissions at other ACICS campuses know you were in warning and never really received regional accreditation? Those who are still on campus are being told to steer students to online programs even though online has a terrible graduation rate and is nearly impossible for these programs to be taught properly online.
Has this been the experience of admissions on all campuses???? And is there anything we can do to help the students now?