Thread regarding DeVry Inc. layoffs

The place is a joke typical higher ed BS.

Ok, thanks for the info—they clean out the disappeared Northeast faculty from the catalog pretty efficiently. Must be by region

@Z6DPy9c-3gpl. That really isn't true. Faculty in Georgia have been over-listed for years. People who have been gone for years are still listed as teaching--both full- and part-timers.

The catalog can lag behind a few months as it’s not constantly updated. But it’s generally correct for faculty info.

You cannot trust their catalog--just like anything else they have told the world.

162 (I rough counted) are listed in the catalog by states, I believe...

1vms...162...full time faculty around the US?

My time at DOS at the end was just misery. They tried to preach that Take Hold Of Your Career or whatever that BS was called, but then threw up roadblocks to stop you. I gave up on it. Then there was a layoff at least once a year. Those who were left were expected to pick up the slack but you never could keep up. I was also a part of a layoff. I had already started looking though. When unemployment looks better than your current job, that may mean something is very wrong. I think my layoff saved my sanity. I know they have had at least 2 more layoffs since my departure, so who knows what the atmosphere is like now. I do not miss it one bit.

I counted 162 give or take

1. Go to the website

2. Open the undergraduate catalog pdf

3. Count the full-time faculty

i am guessing FT faculty numbers around 80-100. They are using FT as chairs and faculty managers to herd online adjuncts into and out of their shells and making them check boxes for course shell inventories like Inspire, Trainings etc.

xos asks an interesting question, one that could be enlarged to include all regions. Who's left in the east, the mid west, the west? I believe (not sure) that in 2008, there were 900+ full-time faculty. Is that correct? Are there even 200 full-time faculty left now?

Who’s left at Addison?

there is a huge shift in the environment at the campuses. there is apparently no longer any pretense that DV is a real brick and mortar college. Instead, it seems entering a campus is like entering an alternate reality where everything is done online and is presented as a cutting edge innovation to provide "Student care". Although PCs and other gadgets in classrooms look a decade old. But it is also understood that DV is online school and almost every single non-online student is a vet looking for stipend. this is the stuff of RP's dreams...

I agree, though I left on my own after the "best faculty forward" joke. Under that regime, we were all in a disgusting feeding frenzy to preserve our jobs, and it was pointless. There was no fairness, justice, or merit in determining who stayed and who left. In reality, we had all earned out jobs time and again. I left because I could. I went on to a much better role, far less stress, and no loss of income.

I agree. For me, living under the Zorek/King/Burks regime was a living hell! The Axis of Evil!!