A number of us full time faculty’s have family’s to support and excellent experience. The accreditation we have at the 11 existing colleges allows us to keep Veteran’s and student to receive financial aid.
Cutting accreditation by laying off full time faculty or by removing ground classes means the loss of veterans as students
We have at Ai a rich history at the accredited colleges of transforming people’s lives get them placed at high paying jobs. I have so many stories to share with your team but middle management the same people you have had trouble with often is keeping us from doing our jobs
we have a manger aka chairs that have openly disrespected our veterans and failed to understand their needs
A lot of full time faculty teach Ai not just for a job but we believe in the mission and are honored to have our positions. Some of us went through 3 to 5 rounds of interviews to get hired
We don’t need to cut the lifeblood of the college but let us help develop the community and work direcly with admissions.
Why are some chairs allowed to alienate our customers the veterans by pissing them off and disrespecting them. Why are they not working directly with admissions to better organize and work with recruitment.
Why aren’t full time faculty encouraged to help get internships help with registration help with job placement and curriculum development. Our chair shuns attempts that we make to try and modernize the program in line with DCEH requests.
We as faculty often are shackled from helping here and if we did go over that persons vead that person sees us as a threat. Also this person knows absolutely nothing about the program they run and does not understand the software or the technology.
And our college is highly profitable yet we are stimied by a bad head.
What we fear will happen is we will be move to adjunct and these people will be by default be made the new full timers when they have never used any of the programs or done any of the work we haved done
Some of us on full time have pushed for curriculum standardization but again the so called Mid level management in that department would not let us do it was all about letting the “less qualified” instructors teach what ever they want how they wanted to do it. Sadly life experience in a professional field isn’t enough. Professional graduate degrees from real institutions prepare
Better teachers and help sell our programs to students .
There are rumors DCEH wants to kill all ground campuses my Challenge to Brent is our competent people in chair position s and allow full time faculty the chance to actually help make money for the college.
Please let us have a chance. We have not been given a chance up until now because no is willing to listen to us immediately above us
We embrace standardized curriculum rather then vague competencies but please let’s keep the accreditation and help us do our Jobs by looking at each ground college independently rather then firing indiscriminately.
Some of us despite the sh--storm here believe in you and what you re trying to do. We just ask for leaders at the local level that actually lead