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

For those who didn’t get the memo:

Introducing Nano Credentials

August 27, 2018

Colleagues,

On the path toward changing the face of higher education, DCEH seeks new and innovative ways to serve students’ needs. As a result of our focus on students and concentration on service, we are proud to introduce our new “Nano Credential” immersive learning experience.

DCEH’s inaugural Nano Credential offering provides students with an 8- to 11-week opportunity to focus on enhancing or developing professional skills to aid in their careers. The online, industry-infused curriculum is taught by experienced faculty members and culminates in a Certificate of Completion. Courses are skill-based and targeted to specific fields of study.

Nano Credentials give students an edge when working to meet employers’ demands for highly-skilled professionals. The flexible coursework delivers those skills without the time and cost associated with completing a traditional degree. Simply put, Nano Credentials are a way for professionals to give themselves an edge, keep pace with a rapidly-changing marketplace, and help their employers stay ahead of competition.

The Art Institutes and Argosy University alumni are being offered the opportunity to particpate in our inaugural Nano Credential courses that begin in October and include:

Social Media Marketing

Digital Photography and Image Management

Small Business Entrepreneurship Program

Mental Health Crisis Intervention

Addiction Peer Recovery Support Specialist

We are already reaching out to our alumni, making them aware of this new opportunity and offering them the chance to participate. I look forward to sharing their success with you in the weeks, months, and years to come.

Find out more about the inaugural Nano Credential coursework offerings in the Leadership Corner section of GoDCEH.

Sincerely,

T T

VP of DCEH Curriculum Center of Excellence

5jku That is just one AiO session, there are 3 sessions, 2 are plus (campus based students) and new student sessions and the 3rd the full time session, which ends Wednesday September 26 and the next session starts Thursday September 27th. So you can see where FTF might be alarmed by a last day of class mass meeting.

Admissions created multiple start dates a decade ago so no student would ever have to wait more than 10 days to start classes (sales techniques not to benefit the student).

Not sure AiO will do a mass webinar/phone-in layoff like we hear SU did, but you never know. I doubt they want to tick off FTF whose grades aren’t due until 9/28 or faculty who still have access to classes and can direct students to the accreditation site and this site.

You never know.

5jku

Sure.

The current AIO session ends on Saturday, the 22nd, and full-timers are required to attend a meeting on the 25th or 26th. I'm sure it's nothing major. No one will be getting fired. Middle States decided early to confirm AIPs accreditation and everyone is getting bonuses and raises.

Nano credentials is where the money is. No full time faculty or accreditation necessary. No wonder DCEH doesn’t care about accreditation long term.

DCEH is salivating over the Pell grants being opened up to these programs. That was/is the plan.

They are offering these Nano credentials to alumni most of whom would qualify for Pell grants. And once again they screw these people over again.

Our campus has a meeting with the president vp and dean September 26. Just to provide some general updates and answer questions you may have. How thoughtful.

Huh. Just got a department meeting invite for the 25th. Mandatory for all full-time faculty. That's not weird or anything. I'm sure it's nothing. Probably fine. Totally normal for week 12.

With the new nano credentials certificates full time faculty are not essential and neither is accreditation. The guess is Bachelors and associates will disappear. Campuses will close completely or be like AiP and give up a building to move to a small office complex. Online lead faculty and an adjunct or two can easily handle the load.

DCEH will do whatever it takes to save a dollar and make a dollar.

1cis so funny!

So true - I have yet to meet a Dean that earned by credentials their position and and/or deserved to keep it -- AXE!

1jas- Are we supposed to feel sorry for the Deans who callously fired and are going to fire hundreds of full time faculty because they will now have extra work to keep their bogus jobs at this collapsing company? Here’s the world’s smallest violin 🎻

"On the other hand, tradition may remain and a firing squad may line other up on the 25th... Get your blindfolds ready and prepare to kiss your backside goodbye."

Hahahah -- a meeting was just scheduled for all full time faculty online 9/25 with em and the 2 jc

no topic - just general updates and answer any questions -- please -- make people think it's about the MS meeting - if it was about the MS meeting they would have said so -- hahahhaha

drum roll! however -- jc is recruiting ftf for the faculty advisory committee - so why do that if the hammer is gonna drop .....

we shall see

1twb Amen

I wouldn’t say that the poster is full of it, as the dceh universe may have parallel timelines going. For example, there are those that have been told that the 28th is their last day, per WARN regulations. On the other hand, tradition may remain and a firing squad may line other up on the 25th... Get your blindfolds ready and prepare to kiss your backside goodbye. It s---s, but that is the reality of Our discontent and we can only wish each other the best in our next professional life... Godspeed

Bill and TedX, you are the Dean from Hollywood Ai aren't you?

You are full of sh*t. Layoffs will happen on 9/25 and not on 9/28. Maybe some folks will be given a 3-day notice and you are confusing that. I doubt that. If you've been around you know layoffs in Academics happen after grades are due for everyone.

So some MBA sh--heads in corporate decided to give the Dean the work of all the 'former' program chairs without considering that the Deans might leave.

Oh...that actually sounds like how the f--- DCEDH is eliminating positions....with the lack of attention to the work covered in those positions and how to distribute it to others. Just f**g fire people at a system level and don't support the pickup of local work or plan in advance of how you are going to get work done locally. What is happening is ST isn't getting done. You're dumping tasks on people at the highest levels that need the support you are eliminating or have eliminated.

The lack of transparency is horrible as well.

Someone’s taking a lead from AiO, or BR gave the idea to EDMC prior to the sale. AiO fired all online program directors (OPDs) November 2016 allowing them to reapply for the position of lead faculty at a faculty salary. Associate deans and department chairs were placed over multiple programs. Leads continue to do the work of an OPD plus teach 8 classes annually. No one really knows what the associated dean and chairs really do other than monitoring metrics for the AiO dean.

Along with the firing of OPDs half the full time faculty were fired and offered jobs as adjuncts.

This is the modus operandi at edmc and now for DCEH and Ai.

Any word on whether severance will be offered to full time faculty losing there jobs?

This College Among the Worst for Full-Time Teachers

The Art Institute of Las Vegas' use of full-time instructors ranks among the nation's lowest, with only 15.0% of instructors teaching on a full-time basis.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/the-art-institute-of-las-vegas/academic-life/faculty-composition/

AiO is recruiting adjuncts. Give them a call (check the post about working at AiO to be sure you want to submit yourself to their work requirements). https://www.thelayoff.com/t/V02w4uA

If that’s the best you can hope for with your career or you are ready to end your career, good luck.

We just hired a Program Chair covering all programs it appears.

If they now remove all full timers, our school would close. We don’t have enough adjuncts as it is. No instructor would stay for the same courseload but half of the pay.

How about financial aid advisors and admissions staff

Online too?

How many of you use street grade d--gs?

Just close the entire system down. Nobody needs the art Institute

They can’t have adjuncts lined up on campus at least because 1/2 the chairs don’t even know it is going down. They don’t tell the deans or the presidents what is going to drop until after they fire the people

May BR have all of his toilets explode at the same time. In the middle of his biscuit party. If any percentage of this is true.

hia -- they may have adjuncts lined up already -

Interesting so fulltime on campus will all be forced to adjunct you are saying on Friday even if carrying a full course load? Does anyone have any actual definite information and not just speculation?

fci Chairs would be offered ftf in their area most likely

I think dceh is just cleaning house of most everyone - so they can train new blood their way not retrain old blood.

Same thing the JC did online

I hope the get rid of the online dean - please please please

But what if chairs are not qualified to teach those classes or any of those classes in our department guess they will have to hire new full timers within a day? Or rehire back old fulltimers? Or current adjuncts ? Current fulltimers aren’t even paid that much so why lay them off - our adjuncts won’t work fulltime for what they pay us

Chairs will be allowed to become * new full time faculty **with a course release for adminstrative duties (only at campuses remaining open) only if personally approved by CB

that's how they get around accreditation -- notice NEW that may mean they will be hiring *New FTF**

bump out all those old ones

This is all Vary specific and yet very vague. We never know what is exactly correct - the fact that people from DCEH are obviously reading this and not releasing any public rebuttal to Fulttime employees at AI implies the hammer is about to drop hard.

xsr easy - just a push of a button -- probably already have everything set up ready to go

Maybe AiP is excluded due to accreditation -- I don't think dceh cares -- they will lose accreditation from all the other still open campuses - why would they keep AiP accreditation?

Drum roll

xsr Lead Faculty online

What are leads ? How will they move full times to adjuncts in less then a week? Also this will violate all accreditation bodies?

It doesn't say anything about Leads

Good luck keeping accreditation without -- at the very least -- any credentialed librarians.

This is not true in our part of the country. I just got hired full time with 2 other faculty from our closing campus to open campus and I know they also hired several adjuncts. Schedules and positions are set, I can't imagine that changing in a week. But am I convinced the position will last for years? That is the real question. DECH appears to have no idea what the heck they are doing and is focused on some lame "Nano" certificate concept instead of degrees. That might work for a dental hygienist or electrician's assistant but most employers want a college degree when hiring professionals, I know because I teach graduate classes and meet with local employers all the time. And they typically pick the Bachelors students over the Associates, it is an easier sell because their portfolios are diverse and the students exhibit more confidence in their skills. After 23 years teaching I have seen trends come and go in education as political administrations and economies fluctuate. Hopefully this is just an ugly cycle that is destined for a new direction. The last few months I applied to bunch of local universities and all I was seeing were adjunct positions. It is a terrible trend of low pay and no benefits. I honestly don't see how schools can build programs when no one is full time. That means people don't attend faculty meetings, help plan coursework, department budgets, build community outreach and relationships with employers. It is definitely a cheapening of a college education without any discount on tuition. So this full time position at another Art Institute campus is OK choice for now, but I will keep my options open in case this campus also implodes under the weight of DCEH leadership.