DCEH was completely irresponsible with their finances from day one of taking over EDMC. Every post I see, somone is feeling bad for DCEH. When the truth of the matter is, they were like frat boys with mommy and daddy’s credit cards. The executive team was grossly overpaid to just sit outside half of the day and smoke c-gare--es. They dumped millions into new systems that didn’t work as well as the old systems did. They had pointless trainings, trying to re-invent the wheel with information that was common sense. On top of that, they spent THOUSANDS a DAY most days catering in breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks. They were so careless with money, it really seemed like they were purposely trying to tank the entire company. I would urge anyone in higher ed to never to hire any of the executive team unless you enjoy paying people to do nothing but gossip, smoke, and eat all day.
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most recent news - DCEH executive breakdown and history
https://www.republicreport.org/2019/whos-who-in-devos-dream-center-college-collapse/
maybe RP used Design and Align at Devry too. One day he proclaimed that Devry would be rebranded as Devry-tech and called a meeting where managers handed out everybody blank little notebooks and pens to write down thoughts on Devry hi-tech. That was one of the worst ever work meeting I had the honor of sitting in.
Guys it's over... even before DCEH bought the schools it was over. AI was bleeding MILLIONS, hundreds of millions of dollars. Who ever signed the lease deals in the past was either horrible at their jobs or getting a cut. There was no real way to save these schools without selling them right away which they tried to do for months. That's why it took receivership to sell anything. No one wants to take on the debts. Be happy it held on for as long as it did, DCEH was basically a really long severance package.
Does “Design & Align” ring a bell? Speaking of pointless common sense wheel re-invention. They brought in an overpaid trainer that had never taught in an art school to hand out $40 handbooks which were mostly blank ‘notes’ pages (the classes we taught were all eBooks at that point) and waste 24-hours of our valuable time while the ship was taking on water. Original poster is correct.
Also, who are these executives sitting in the Conference Room? Does this group include RP, ex-president of Devry, ME, ex-Marketing from Devry, BR, etc?
DCEH used to have a twitter on which they used to post photos of these characters. It is no longer online
@2tms: Can you expand on this part and how it contributed to the financial waste? Thank you for laying out these details, also.
"They wasted money making the center employees work from home for a few months only to tell them to come back again a few months later."
To answer the first question it was the DCEH execs. As soon as the takeover happened, DCEH executive team posted up at the Park Place location which housed AIO, AUO and SUO as well as the Center. We walked by the conference room they had taken up, every single day- they were there from day one through the very end. They had paradise bakery, Starbucks, Cheesecake Factory,, claim jumpers, pita jungle, Jason’s deli, and tons of others catered in for their 20+ people for breakfast lunch and then snacks all through the day. They would use company cars to drive around for outings after work, when they were being housed at the hotel that is less than 1/4 mile away from the building. They were outside smoking all the time, and clearly just wasting money to laugh with each other.
They completely were in over their heads. They wasted money making the center employees work from home for a few months only to tel them to come back again a few months later. They gave Elden Monday from UoP a large enough salary to convince him to drop his job there to come over and work 24/7 to go through and come up with thousands of pages in legal b---s--- to prevent DOE from stripping AIO of their accreditation. They did all of this, while still f---ing employees over, knowing that EDMC had left us in debt, and wasted money.
Oh and also sent out emails pushing their religious b---s--- in the weirdest way. They are more at fault for the final closure than anyone else was.
To put this in perspective, they got rid of our campus deli, fired faculty which then resulted in class cancellations, fired admissions people, got rid of financial aid people during critical periods and way more dumb moves which the administration at our campus is reeling from. DCEH were cutting profitable ventures or guaranteeing we'd lose money in 2018.
We've been under the impression they have been in total panic mode not consulting any of the heads of Ai if this will literally lose us money. They're mo--ns who thought going online is always cheaper even when it only lost the school both immediately and in the long term.
Who spent the “thousands a day”? Do you mean Ai managers, or the DCEH execs?
No one involved has clean hands- though many may wear handcuffs soon...
Rob Paul just resigned last weekend. The rest of the family and long time associates are led by Ron Barton now.
who are these members of executive team? I know there was RP, the ex-president of Devry and his Marketing VP, both got fired from Devry and hired by BR
This was probably the plan from the get go!