Thread regarding DeVry Inc. layoffs

Thanks to the couargeous person who posted on GlassDoor

"Advice to Management"

"I worked at DeVry University for two years and the first 6 months was okay. However doesn't align with my educational philosophy. This university is very numbers based. There is no sense of care for what the students want and their concerns, such as ensuring their financial aid will cover their enrollment and allowing the time to explain this to a student versus having them be rushed and drop courses with expensive consequences. There is good portion of students who come from low socioeconomic status who are targeted and have no idea how title IV works and that they have to pay back loans and how dropping a course can result in a balance. Many of the students that I worked with saw the university as a bank in which they could get a large credit balance to pay for their personal needs while not having any motivation to continue in their education, but doing the bare minimum to ensure they can continue to receive money. However, management only cares about enrollment numbers and decreasing account receivables and nothing in between, they don't care about putting the the time to properly educate students on their understanding of finances and academics. If something is rushed in any business model doesn't work for the long run. There is such a negative association with this university I wouldn't even send my children here for free. It is amazing the level of distaste that this university has left and if only students knew the amount of misadvisement with their financial and academic accounts that happens much of which is not their fault."

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-DeVry-University-RVW24455302.htm?utm_source=company-follow&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=company-follow-ri&utm_content=company-follow-ri-review-title&utm_term=

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DeVry is predatory. Too many of its students are also predatory. The school purposely enrolls any comer, regardless of ability; predatory students ride their financial aid for as long as they can with no interest in education.

These twin predatory groups--equally interested in as much money as possible for as long as possible--ruin education for the few seeking to improve skills and outcomes through education.

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Post ID: @6err+XvIia44

Who borrows the money? The school or the people who have to payback the loans? See this is how much of a jackass/dumb--s Camden is. He blames the school for people taking out loans to pay for it. Camden do you also blame your house for taking out a mortgage to pay for it?

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Post ID: @5jkt+XvIia44

and that is why - DeVry has a has Default Rate!!! These students need to be screened!!!! good lord, you should see the student, I've seen.....they can't even pass basic courses. Oh, but wait - sign a course repeat 3 times and we will get you in!!!! Why DeVry....Why?

You want to change? You want to say Hello Tommorow !!! Then enforce entrance standards...and not just give them the test to past so Admissions thinks, they are doing something good. Telling a student, here is your math and english test....and here it is!!!! shouldn't value any Admission qualification - 80% of these individuals are SALES REPRESENTATIVE not ADVISORS. You want a real Advisor, go to financial Aid......they don't sell the dream....they make you work for it!!!!

Please DeVry !!!!! you want to make this school better!!! Then stop accepting any student in the door, i get it...numbers, numbers, numbers. But some of these students....wow. I hope you sleep good, knowing that these student do remember first contacts. And guess what, i always refer back to Admissions.......

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Post ID: @5drb+XvIia44

I have many students who register but never submit a single assignment. They post one blank post per week so that the system records an "academic event" so they don't get dropped from the class. The only explanation for this behavior is that they are scamming the system to get some kind of VA loan and/or housing allowance which they can use to buy whatever they want. Onsite students get a bigger allowance so it's often 75% or so of on campus students who exhibit this behavior. They register but never show up to class. Professors get punished for low pass rates but those that recruit these scammers don't get punished.

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Post ID: @5mbq+XvIia44

@Happy & Growing at DeVry, what part don't you believe? I have heard similar stories which included lots of documentation. How else would DeVry have such horrible numbers, including 20 percent graduation rate, a 43 percent default rate and $12B+ in student loan debt?

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Post ID: @cjm+XvIia44

I don’t believe this.

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