http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2014/09/10/be-selective-in-choosing-a-for-profit-college/.....Very interesting to see Strayer get so much media attention. Lots of money to entertainer Steve Harvey, NASCAR owner Joe Gibbs, Jack Welch. Seems like a giant con to me. Can anyone tell me how good Strayer is to work for in 2014?
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@Left in '12, it appears that Strayer is implementing a business model that has gotten Corinthian Colleges, Education Management, ITT Tech, Lincoln Tech into financial and legal trouble. I wonder how long it will be before Strayer gets exposed as something much less than they advertise.
From what my former colleagues have told me that are still employed there, they have cut campus staff tremendously. Depending on the size of the campus, there is only 1 full time rep in the Business Office handling all duties in a day (Opening/Closing Register, assisting students on the phone/in person, provide reporting to campus/regional/corporate, etc.). Having worked there for almost 7 years, until I left back in 2012, to have only 1 Full Time employee in the Business Office and to do the amount of work required is completely insane! They expect you to completely disregard your family at home and make work your primary focus once you step in and out the door of the workplace. The problem with Strayer is they have completely gotten top heavy and what I mean by that is they kept hiring at the Corporate Level, creating bogus positions and giving people titles these outsiders did not deserve and bypassing people who knew how the operations ran from front to back. By ignoring the campuses and taking away resource after resource, and laying off good hard workers who have been there for years and replacing them with either young inexperienced people or people off of the street who have no experience because they can hire them at a cheaper rate.