Thread regarding DeVry Inc. layoffs

Seriously, though...if DeVry makes it out the other end of this, it needs to change some things...here are a couple of suggestions...identify our best academic program...then go out and get the very best faculty in those fields. Money should be no object. Time for research and a stipend for conference travel should be included. Then, when you get them...promote the heck out of it...to the point where someone interested in that particular field would crawl on their knees to be in the same room with that person. Of course, you'd need support staff...so you'd have to clean out the current dean of faculty and the so-called deans for academic excellence, and get real academics in there...people who understand that the secret to success is to get the very people and then turn them loose.

The 'non-profit' status thing is a marketing tool. It's used to imply to prospective students that "This must be the real thing, look, they're non-profit".

Ask former Everest employees how non-profit worked out, for them.

Regardless of what we feel , the train is moving. Online is the trend.

Who s the son of gun that invented computers and the internet . It is messing up our lifestyle! lol.

The distinction between for-profit and non-profit is a red herring. Profit status has nothing to do with educational quality or learning outcomes. The discriminators are the design of the classes and the structure of the programs, and how well both of these support a positive student experience. Poorly designed classes and incompetently managed programs are endemic in online education, regardless of profit status.

Do you think that state colleges are any better. I do not think so. It just happen they are subsidized by tax payer and if the money stops they will fail.

Higher education has major issues that are being covered by subsidies .

The mind set of the me generation is not equipped to do what it takes to learn and grow.

"We're going non-profit" is the same scam used by Everest. In reality, the non-profit status just allowed them to sidestep DOE standards. By the end, quality was worse, and the school failed within two years.