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

5zbf - is one of those faculty members have not yet been fired, but walks the campus like they are big sh-t. Stop being ridiculous, and if you still work at one of these schools, you are the problem.

5zbf-Don’t allow your attempt to dodge reality make you stupid to legality. Any local President or Dean had to know the federal funds were not disbursed to veterans, and other students. Google “ scienter” or concult any Attorney- as those people should be doing ASAP

Do you think the managers & directors at an Amazon plant have ANY control over disbursement of funds? No, the corporate office gives them a budget. Same thing happens within your local school districts and universities. Department chairs have nothing to do with federal financial aid.

Don’t let your hatred of corporate allow you to become stupid in common sense.

Admins at all schools and all brands -- better start lining up your Ps and Qs --- cause the law be comin' for you very soon and you are going to fall with all the corporate higher ups. Best find a lawyer pronto.

Please don't believe that Houston will solve anything. I teach in Austin and the Houston campus is where our institutional chair is based. We hear nothing from her, we get an occasional email that is just forwarded to us, which is useless. Everything that we hear from Houston is useless. I gave my notice and this is my last quarter to teach, it couldn't end soon enough! Do yourself a favor and leave before the whole system gets shut down.

@XBHDDUH-vql & @XBHDDUH-ksk:

You could not be more WRONG! (I'm assuming you MUST be part of the administration that is very worried that you will need a criminal lawyer very soon). Pretending that DCEH a monster, while EPF is a real educational organization is such a JOKE! Please read the following motion filed with the federal court (https://www.republicreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019.02.12-Dkt.-48-Dunagan-Motion-for-Emergency-Status-Conference.pdf). DCEH took the money, EPF should have understood how this works (if they are truly higher-education professionals, which they clearly aren't).

Must feel good to pretend that veterans and students aren't getting robbed blind! Must be fun to pretend you work at a college - you don't. When will these people (including at the local level) be held responsible? This is going to get worse, much worse. All of this is about to crumble. There will be investigations. ALL fraud will be uncovered at some point, this will include all of your incompetence and illegal practices.

vq1- your statement contradicts the original poster, who claimed THE SCHOOL is asking the Veterans for tuition. Why do I believe the veterans and not you or the school?

The schools do not receive stipends from the VA, they receive tuition money. The stipends that veterans rely on to pay their bills are direct deposited from the VA to the veteran. If stipends have not been received it means no one did the data entry into the VAOnce system to let the VA know how many credit hours the veterans were taking for the quarter. I'm guessing the team that did the data entry at central services was let go without a plan for who was going to do the certifications moving forward.

I don’t know that it’s as much a “clerical error” as is the fact that the VA credit balances aren’t held to the same regs as title iv credit balances. In other words, there’s no regulation specific to when credit balances created by non-title iv aid have to be returned to students. DCEH has been exploiting this loophole as far back as July when they started robbing Peter to pay Paul, holding credit balances as long as possible to cover other expenses. But, Paul finally left the build and there’s no other place to pull funds from to cover these stipends.

No one in San Antonio knows anything either, complete silence as to what is taking place. Our veterans here are very concerned and worried. No one can provide any answers. Administrators have no input from Houston, which is our institutional center. We have been operating on our own for the past year and a half, wondering every day if the school will be open when we arrive for work.

No one wants to take responsibility for any of this. At our campus, everyone pretends to not know anything about the transfer to EPF. No one in leadership can articulate what is happening. All we hear is that "there will be NEW marketing" that will solve all of the issues. Really? Marketing is not the answer!

Receiver states that ALL funds will be released on Friday. So let's see if they are released on Friday. I will believe it when I see it!

I'm confused if DCEH received the funds in January (before EPF), why didn't EPF demand that those funds (in escrow) as part of the transfer? If Studio Enterprise & EPF are professionals, wouldn't they understand how/when federal funds as dispersed? Statements from the federal receiver are complaining that Studio Enterprise is charging schools, that weren't even transferred to EPF, excessive fees for work not being performed (https://www.republicreport.org/2019/dream-center-receiver-says-devos-blessed-studio-enterprise-is-taking-money-for-nothing/). It appears that people want to blame DCEH and want to portray EPF as a white knight, it appears they are all the same, but with different names. Veterans are still without their money and it doesn't appear that help will arrive quickly (https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/02/13/Financial-aid-Art-Institute-Dream-Center-Education-Holdings-EDMC-Mark-Dottore/stories/201902130104). This issue will likely go into litigation, which could take years. Wishful thinking that this is going to get resolved quickly or that it was a 'clerical' error and the checks will arrive next week. It is time for the administration of these schools stand up and demand answers, even if that means you might lose your job. If there truly is local control, why can't our President, Provost and Department Chairs stand up and take control? Why haven't they demand answers? What responsibility lies at the local level at this point?

Not surprised that things have gotten worse at Houston, Dallas, and Austin. One of my former student workers (I was at Ai Austin) let me know he hasn’t received his money from the VA either. Heck, they still owe me money and I left in September.

The money for the January term was paid to DCEH before EPF acquired the schools. DCEH miss appropriated those funds using them to cover other expense (i.e. payroll). Your beef is with DCEH, they have and will always be a scam. The one thing they are good at, however, is blaming everyone else for their financial woes. The newest scape goat being EPF and Studio.

From what I understand, we are still relying on Dceh to provide several services that Studio will eventually take over. One of those services is the centralized financial services (including stipends). DCEH's money mess is still impacting us because of this connection. This transition needs to happen ASAP, and we need to find money somewhere else so that our students don't have the stipend issues moving forward.

San Antonio is the same. Our students have not received their federal loan money either. No one has received any real news. Our chairs are clueless and useless.

I teach at the Austin location, our veterans have not received their money from the VA either. Houston is a complete joke. Our Department Chair is also in Houston, she is a complete know-nothing. There is no leadership, no one willing to take responsibility for the actions of the schools they pretend to manage.