Jim Palermo, AIW resigned yesterday. Scrubbed office Tuesday, said was retiring? No notice, no party, just an Adios and out the door stat.
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mandatory MEETING MEANS, IF YOU SHOW UP YOU DIDN'T GET AXED, IF YOU AREN'T THERE YOUR NAME WILL BE MENTIONED AS A NO LONGER NEEDEd POSITION. . nOT YELLING caps lock got stuck...too lazy to retype.
Dominos falling. Stay in line and be next or you know your other option takes effort. Word
It's quiet. Too quiet.
The women in charge of AIOHC will never be let go. She opened AI PHX and is thought of in high regards within the company. She is transparent and you never hear her speak. If you remember back, she created this mess by creating all these departments and positions. Combine this with the shady on goings during that time and who she was sleeping with. Even if Ai is merged with another part of the company, she will remain in charge of some department that she knows nothing about. Again, an example of someone with no experience running this company. Just because you replicated the same unethically run online division in phoenix that was currently being run in Pittsburgh, doesn't make you a must retain employee. All the sleeping around in Pittsburgh got those recipients' a promotion if they moved to phoenix. Now some of these shmucks are back here in Pittsburgh with titles they don't deserve.
We just received an email from our president about a mandatory meeting on Thursday before Easter. Should I be worried that my school is one to be cut?
The merging of small departments is a bad idea because you end up with managers that are not experienced in one or more of the areas. As a result, those departments suffer because their new manager doesn't see the value. I know this first hand. To this day, I have had multiple supervisors and not a single one has a background in my department. It takes weeks for me to get answers to questions because the manager is so consumed with other duties that mine seem too small to be urgent. Not to mention the Center keeps changing things every month. I love what I do, just not the company I do it for anymore.
Get rid of Presidents?! Please get rid of AiOHC's pres. She is sinking this ship faster than the Titanic went down.
Some of the Departments are so small that combining them under two or three directors would be reasonable and saves big bucks. With gainful employment regulation’s coming soon some programs will be gone altogether leaving an even smaller footprint. There could be a “The School of Design,” a “The School of Media Art’s” Who knows about Culinary “The School of Culinary Art’s.” That should eliminate at least three directors positions…Graphic Design/Web, Fashion, Photography… I am surprised that EDMC hasn’t regionalizes the schools like they did with PR, and get the number of “Presidents” down to eight or ten…ten or twelve schools per president…big saving there!
It is going to be quite for a couple weeks. Expect Ai to RIF the last week of march before Good Friday. Full-time faculty will downsize, coordinators will be let go and duties left to directors, a parts of student affairs downsized. Everyone can relax at Ai a couple more weeks.