I wouldn't compare the for-profits to community colleges. I'm not aware of any community colleges that are under scrutiny for victimizing students or for having outrageous student loan default rates.

Well if you are going to compare career schools to Stanford and Berkeley you being absolutely absurd! Compare apples to apples for heaven's sake. For-profit career schools are more similar to community colleges so that would be a more legitimate... — read more 

Yes, obviously. The video is a parody, and it's a parody of the for-profits. All the for-profits advertise in the manner being spoofed in that video. That's because the for-profit admissions role is recruiter, which is a sales position. At good... — read more 

That commercial is fake...it is a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnNk2Al2yF8

The admission teams are not selling in California. Let's get real. There is NO benefit to a CCI education based on the employment numbers. When you start touting that 68% of your graduates are employed then that says 32% of your graduates are... — read more 

REAL schools admissions teams do in fact sell. Their job is to explain the benefits of their programs and provide information to prospective students with the hope that they will enroll. I will agree that for-profits operate differently and follow up... — read more 

What's next for the High School program?

CCI is abandoning California.

Where are all the people who "knew" about the 10/31/2012 demise of CCI?

admissions is not a sales function at REAL schools.

Everything is NOT status quo at all the campuses. CCI operations in California are in terrible shape.

Where is all the gloom and doom that was predicted for today after the earnings report was posted!!!! Everything seems status quo at all campuses.

I agree. Well said.

Totally agree with the previous post!

To the poster who keeps saying customer (oops students) or sales (oops admissions) will you knock it off?! It got old about 300 posts ago and frankly, admissions IS a sales function in for-profit as well as traditional education and students ARE... — read more 

If you are in Heald sales then plan on getting laid off after the mid quarter start date of Nov. 19. UNLESS you had a REAL GOOD "production" of new customers (oops students) then your job is in jeporday. The October 15 start date enrollment was... — read more 

For those Heald salespeople and administrators telling prospective and current students that Cal Grants come back in July 2013 examine the prior post. Heald and Everest won't be eligible for Cal Grants until at LEAST July 2014 under current law.

Heald and Everest are NOT eligible for Cal grants in July 2013. http://www.csac.ca.gov/pubs/forms/grnt_frm/faqs_institutional_eligibility.pdf

CCI will be taking over Heald in the next six months. Terminate Heald management will be replaced by CCI people. Heald for all practical purposes will be run like Everest. Expect further housecleaning at Heald campuses. Salespeople will be expected... — read more 

CCI quarterly report comes out on Oct. 31. Expect major restructuring and corporate layoffs. The enrollment dropped between 15 to 20 percent and is accelerating. If your campus enrollment dropped over 30% then it is likely to be taught out.

Online is going down the drain as well. Enrollments are down 20%plus since 2011. Nothing will save this company. They caused the problem by cutting and stabbing people in the back. Online has no real leadership. These people lie and cheat all the... — read more 

CCI can't survive for long just with online. The public community colleges and state universities are rapidly offering LOW COST or even FREE online instruction. Online enrollment is dropping just like the brick and mortar schools.

The only thing keeping CCI alive is the Online division. We have been towing the line and saving this company for close to 3 years with our enrollments. Each day is an emergency and drive to get as many students as we can find. Insane pressure... — read more 

Expect a major consolidation of Everest in Southern California over the next six months. CCI upper management is TIRED of dealing with the new California regulatory environment for Everest and with the ever declining enrollments is saying "Enough is... — read more 

It's hard to have an effective business plan when you have an obsolete product called for profit education. Take a look at ITT Technical institute quarterly numbers released today. It's probably TOO LATE for CCI to come up with an effective long... — read more 

I don't have a dog in this fight, but you all may be missing a business component. Good business planning does not wait for enrollment to get too low before closing. The smart move is to reduce the number of campuses and reorganize before things get... — read more 

To some extent it is a "Heald College screwup" from the consumer's point of view. Assuming your relative doesn't owe the money and CCI won't budge then simply file a lawsuit against CCI especially the moment the collection hits the credit report. If... — read more 

FYI – as someone involved in the project, the new computer system isn’t a Heald screw up. In April 2012 CCi began migrating Heald of it its computer system to CCi’s “latest and greatest” FA and student administration system. I have a relative that is... — read more 

Heald College FA has made (another) major screwup. Apparently the "latest and greatest" new computer system implimented in April 2012 was a big mess and a LOT of students both former and current are being sent to collections. It looks like over a... — read more 

Expect corporate restructuring and layoffs after the Oct. 31 report comes out. The enrollment numbers don't look good.

@Dr. Who. The latest Heald admin plan is to use sales people with BS degrees as adjunct faculty. Having tutored more than one Heald Gen Ed student, then it really does not matter too much in who fills the "instructor" chair. The other plan is to... — read more 

After I quit, I posted a note on my facebook page. Now all of the PDs are surveying faculty facebook pages as if anyone were stupid enough to post anything there until it's all over.

The information of late is questionable. To retrench and come around under the new rules the major education players need to cut heavy. The smart ones will cut 30% to 40% and the sooner the better. It is a smart move if they want to be doing well in... — read more 

20% drop year over year, month over month? quarter over quarter?

Everest online numbers are dropping by 20%.

I don't know any details about the Everest campuses, but Everest University Online seems to have kept the student numbers stable.

Everest college is going out of business in Northern California and is likely to do the same in Southern California.

Everyone is talking about Heald. I wonder how Everest and Online are doing. Something is keeping this company A float.

Heald doesn't get students but warm bodies. If you have a brain then you are at the public CC whose total cost is under $2K versus Heald's cost of over $20K. The CC is likely to be even FREE should you need financial aid along with additional... — read more