What a mess! I feel sorry for the students. With only a small handful of staff to help our students, they certainly aren't receiving the customer service they're paying for. Many of them have already expressed their frustration and are voicing concerns about Ai's (and their) future. What can we tell them when we don't even know? Because DCEH doesn't value students, staff, or faculty enough to share anything. I can't, in good conscience, promise a student or parent that we'll be here next year.
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Faculty and staff will find jobs, but how will students that have already invested time and money get out of this mess? During the last 3 years, admissions made an extra effort to bring in the most vulnerable students. Anyone can be anything. I heard that directly from Fraud himself. That is not the reality. These students are so far in debt. What can we do? Should I stand outside on the sidewalk during their open houses and tell them what I know. If people in admissions had an ounce of decency, they would walk away from this place and tell their stories.
Let's take a shot at this issue.
I believe that where the students are concerned the present and past terrible predicament students find themselves in can be best elucidated by referring to every academician's perennially favorite social scientist Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of (human) Needs.
Most often graphically displayed by use of the pyramid, we may find in decending order from the pyramid's apex the need for Self Actualization (inner fulfillment).
Next up are the Social needs of family, intimacy and belonging.
Security would then intuitively follow in importance manifesting itself in the form of safety, employment and accumulation of assets.
Finally, and most elemental, the basic Physiological needs for food, water, shelter and regular bowel movements.
So it then follows that by using Maslow as a sort of causative road map, the problem can be easily and logically attributed to the many years of short sighted, self defeating and erroneous substitution by management and faculty of EDMC's/DCEH's student body for what would more appropriately be relagated to having "regular bowel movements" and leaving it at that.
Thank you.
(All readers with a terminal degree please kindly comment as I am working on my SU doctoral dissertation and am considering using the above as my thesis statement).
I would encourage staff to be honest with students since DCEH obviously isn’t going to be. If you have any type of moral compass (which is rare for DCEH/EDMC) types, you can’t in good faith encourage someone to attend one of their scam schools. If DCEH found out, what’s the worst they could do? Fire you??? Don’t worry they plan to do that anyway, you have nothing to lose.
This is practically criminal behavior on the part of DCEH. How could they come in and reassure faculty and students and then pull the rug out from underneath everyone without even telling them the plan of action? How could they damage the futures of all the faculty and students in this way?