How many times were you told that at your campus.
DCEH buying us in a good thing they said, no more layoffs they said, non profit is good....
Ahh crap. They lied
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This whole thing is a scam -- right from the get go -- it's a ruse to get edmc off from being held accountable -- online admin are well aware and have been since day one. Let's see who was paid of with that 60 mil to edmc --
Most were fooled but no more - cats' out of the bag and sh-- is going to fly -- you will see.
Being forced to “watch a stupid video of someone's BS” is exactly what the online director of teaching effectiveness is forcing teachers and students to do (chuckle, cracks me up someone with no clue of curriculum or instructional design and a degree from at best a questionable school gets that title).
Lectures are now mostly videos (you can’t read, no problem at AiO, just watch this video). Some of the new videos are 20 minutes long and longer, that is beyond the attention span of most people, especially at Ai. Faculty training is the same, watching 30 minute videos is not a new and innovative approach to education. Teachers are being forced to do this in classes, they must post videos to explain one assignment a week and to comment to every student at least once a week.
No raises, just increased workloads. The new LMS software is a major time drain, “teaching and effectiveness” director needs a new title, there is no teaching, the new classes are just “entertaining” nothing effective about them just a change in format not quality, and nothing updated. Most assignments are identical word for word to assignments from 10 years ago. “Teaching” online requires data entry and customer service skills, once Ai loses all accreditation educators will no longer be necessary, it will farmed our to India. You don’t “teach” online, you simply present the class as it is written no matter how poorly that is. Instructors are nothing more than class coaches just there to make learning fun, positive, interactive and help students feel good about their work (if they show up and do it) so they keep taking more classes.
There has been nothing positive about the sale to DCF and if there ever was academic rigor at Ai, “teaching and effectiveness” has destroyed it.
From a still-open campus and an employee who's been around for almost 8 years: there's been no new faculty hired in years, only layoffs/exits of full timers and reductions of classes for adjuncts; staff is vanishing almost daily, never replaced; rare new hires aren't credentialed to teach, just hired for celebrity connections or how they might get publicity or media placements for the school. No reinvestment of $ for student learning in new technology or equipment, just instructors "making do." If anything, it feels more skeletal--with student workers doing the jobs of full-time staff, who are now long long gone. Communication with students and employees is worse than at any point in the past. Any hope faculty and staff had of change, improvement with new ownership of DCEH is dead. And it hasn't even been a year yet.
No most of us were not fooled by DCEH. Many of us knew they were a scam from the start, only to make the rich richer.
At least with EDMC you didn't have to watch a stupid video of someone's BS. Most of the time the video didn't work because of out dated technology. There are still those that I thought were smart people that are still hanging around. There is life outside and it is good.
We were all hoping with the sale to DCF, a faith-based charitable nonprofit organization, the job would have meaning. We were all fooled. DCEH has no government oversight and student recruitment went back to the old hard sell method.
Employees have never had a say at EDMC/DCEH schools. They have always been top down “leadership” and presidents, vps, deans and program directors simply responsible for plan implementation. All those meetings asking for employee input all ended up with everyone being manipulated into doing what the executives ultimately wanted the campuses to do.
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss” - The Who. The online division I work for is drowning with incompetent leadership and sycophantic followers. Independent thought is highly discouraged.
DCEH makes EDMC look like Mother Teresa and this is from someone who has been around for years.
I don't see it as lying per se because I believe that the ones that told us that actually believed it.
At least at my campus that's the case.
And since they are getting fired (at my campus in droves) too, they are also getting burned.
If you are at a campus that is staying open, I would never trust anything DCEH says. Unfortunately, from my experiences with a "still open" campus- many will follow the leader to the death. There were so many people that would never question anything coming from the EC or President. It was really cultish. The president would call them and they would "jump"...I will never understand such lack of independent thinking. Some EC members had worked 20 years and would just do a metaphorical salute and do the president's bidding. The world does not get better with followers. Be a leader and think for yourself.
Isn't it ironic... the guy who told us we had nothing to worry about ... has been terminated.
If you work online, or at a campus that is sticking around, do you feel that things are better under DCEH? If so, in what way?
Guess you should have been enrolling students rather than drinking the Kool Aid about the rouse of utopia in a declining, heavily regulated market?