I've been posting on thelayoff.com for about a decade. It's been worth it because I have connected with workers who stopped drinking the kool aid--and a handful who had the courage to speak truth to power. I always thought that conditions could be improved if workers organized, but that didn't happen--at least not at UoPX. Some were fired before they spoke out, some received benefits (with NDAs to silence them), but none of them did it solely to get the big payoff (qui tam). What's it like working at University of Phoenix knowing the number of people whose lives are made worse by their UoPX experience? How do you rationalize the social mobility scores from the Washington Monthly?
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@2rvy+1dpDWE6i, thanks for the information. Do you know how widespread this purge is? Was there any rhyme or reason to the cutbacks?
Dahn,
All faculty who have not taught a class in the last 6 months were deactivated yesterday- the reason given was larger class sizes and decreased enrollment.
A student entering a for-profit is more likely to default on a loan than to graduate.
For-profits are worse than casinos. At least casinos don't set up offices to push anyone into signing crippling student loan debts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-phoenix-settlement-drop-bucket-student-debt-advocates-say-n1100901
https://www.nber.org/papers/w18201?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw
@mos+1dpDWE6i, tell me, what don't I know about University of Phoenix? I do know that early on it was an innovator, but those days are long gone.
I did more than read John D. Murphy's book Mission Forsaken, I spoke with him. I also spoke with a number of whistleblowers over the last decade. And of course I spent hours on the case with D H.
It's a shame Td N*n and others did not listen and opted for pure greed. It's also a shame that UoPX workers could not organize.
When you refer to former graduates working for Fortune 500 companies, are you including UoPX alumni at Walmart, Amazon, CVS, Target, McDonalds?
Yes, I do know there are some in government workers that get advanced degrees at UoPX because it's an easier ticket to punch.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/25/university-of-phoenix-student-loans/
https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/22/obama-university-phoenix-probe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Phoenix
Easy. Recognize that you, Dahn, hate the place without having a clue about what really goes on there (and no desire to fix that), think about the over 1 million alumni whose life is now better plus the thousands who improve their lives graduating each year, and consider the Forbes article that has more UoPX alumni work at Fortune 500 companies than anyone else (and far more than any other University but UW).