So, if you were one of the folks who decided to stay aboard the sinking ship. Just realize, this will be your life as long as you know it. EDMC will continue to make cuts every quarter just to meet budget numbers. This is what they have done for the last 10 years, don't expect that the change anytime soon. If you choose to "ride out the storm ", prepare for layoffs every quarter, one of these days it might be you. If you are OK with it, stick it out. If not, get out now!
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814, that happens at Brown Mackie all the time. Deans "compel" instructors to change grades and to pass students "no matter what". They are failing in their persistence metric so, in order to make themselves appear to be doing better, they force the issue with instructors. I would love to see some outside agency actually create and give the tests with no interference from academic "leaders". I am sure more than half the students would fail.
EDMC is toast. They wont be around in 5 years or less. I worked at one on the EAst Coast as an adjunct and I witnessed some pretty shady goings on.
Such a department head cooking students GPA's and moving forward students who failed foundation classes to keep his numbers looking good.
The management at this school was a joke and the students they attracted were in my opinion victims of fraud. All of them should be given refunds, even the ones who had no business being in college in the first place.
top students research the schools they apply for and have options. Until edmc can get rid of Google no top students will ever go to an edmc school. Especially when your charging ivy league prices.
Have to agree with 606. Garbage in garbage out...
Ha, ha, what a bunch of marketing speak. "ensure student happiness through top gradation" ? The only way you can do that is by wiping the slate clean with the current bottom of the barrel students, and start doing what most real schools do and look for top grades and top talent BEFORE they enter the school. Then you need to pay top dollar to retain good instructors and a school with quality over quantity as actual practice not top down management buzz words. Right now all three 0,0,0. My bet would be on EDMC only adopting the buzz word, brow beating it into the instructors without actual back up or change. Oh, and it will be in every marketing add about how they have changed, but not.
How is EDMC going to "Ensure the students' happiness through top graduation which will make them advocates for other students to come." without faculty, support staff, equipment,or solid curriculum? (to start) Students are not on the minds of the people driving EDMC.
Cuts are only made to meet the budget numbers which were established during the annual budget cycle. When campuses miss these numbers greatly, adjustments need to be made. When the company cannot make pleas to donors (which happens in the lifecycle of every non profit institution), it must find another way to meet the budget...
What needs to happen is this: find a way to retain the students at each campus. Ensure the students' happiness through top graduation which will make them advocates for other students to come. This will make recruiting cheaper and start an era of progress.