For all of you older UOPers, everyone will remember the outrageous claims of "growing 25 percent forever" and "we will be the first school with a million students." In order to achieve the mathematically impossible, he implemented the enroll everything policy that has destroyed uop. When he saw that his unsustainable model began to crater, he and his sycophants simply found a new host to infect, leaving uop and the problems he created. Uop was slowly having issues with revenue growth in 2005 and also had to restate earnings in 2006 for illegally backdating executive stock options. This was in addition to the numerous fines paid by Apollo for their illegal compensation model for enrollment. If you take out 2009, the revenue has been an issue for close to a decade, before capelli was even a thought. Not excusing current managements performance, because it is not excusable. Instead of focusing on student outcomes and the school brand when the economic costs would have been manageable, they simply continued on the destructive path Muellar started.
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I worked at UOP under Brian Muellar and Capelli. I respect Brian and his drive. He has a vision and he drives the organization to make that vision real. Let's understand that no matter the vision or results, Brian cannot accomplish anything on his own. When was the last time Brian enrolled a student? See as upset as you may get, all faults is not on upper management. I was laid off by UOP but my anger was not towards Brian. I was disappointed that my team felt they could do as little as possible and still get paid. For an organization to grow and/or maintain, you need committed employees as well as a solid management team. The change in government policies was honestly good on a moral factor because there were advisors that were not in the best interest of the student. They knew that they could control their earnings by enrolling anybody and everybody. That was not good for business and unfortunate for UOP and other schools. The issue with this field today is the lack of accountability. If you were highered to find students to motivate to change their life, and you couldnt do that......then why should the company/University continue to pay you? I was laid off because I was surrounded by people that wanted to collect a free pay check. My issue is not with Muellar or Capelli... it is with everyone that decided to kick their feet up and not put in the work. Lack of effort destroyed UOP.
Actually, Greg Cappelli has been around or advising UOP pretty much since they went public. He joined Apollo in 2007 and encouraged many of the stupid excesses that have crippled you. Think Axia... He's just a typical mercenary banker with no idea how to run a company but lots of ideas for exploiting one.
Here is the announcement from 2009:
Cappelli, 41, most recently served as Executive Vice President of Global Strategy, Assistant to the Executive Chairman and Chairman of Apollo Global. He joined the Company in April 2007 from Credit Suisse, where he served as Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, specializing in the higher education sector.
You are a retard! That is like this nlgger Obama still blaming Bush. This operation is done! Title IV probation is in the government's sights. It will happen soon and when it does, the rest of this place will be shuttered and sold off as scraps.
"then you need to give executive management credit when something works, as it seems to be doing at GCU. "
It is working so well that he is actively looking to take GCU back to non-profit, at least partially The reason: The "stigma" of a for-profit education. He and his buds are good start-up managers, but they have no experience running a mature organization. Cappelli did nothing different then what Mueller did, except he took it over at a time where it was impossible to succeed doing the same thing. Cappelli now is tasked with the wind down of UOP as a growing entity, which is what has to happen.
@769--what's your address, dumbo? I fed Mueller's, and I'll anally f yours because you be so "STOOPID", my sump in yo mouf boyeeeee.
Mueller has been gone for, what, six or seven years? Blaming him for anything currently in play at U of P is a real reach, no matter how badly you think he screwed it up. There has been more than enough time to change anything and everything he did, if that is what needed to happen. Meanwhile, he seems to have found himself a pretty good gig at GCU - one of the very few for-profits doing reasonably well. If you hold executive management responsible for the performance of a company when it falters, then you need to give executive management credit when something works, as it seems to be doing at GCU.
Brian Mueller, Greg Capelli both had challenging times with this university mistakes have been made can this university turn things around? That remains to be seen I hope that they do turn this around because I have two degrees from University of Phoenix.
Brian Mueller is a charlatan, Christian know-nothing. Too bad there is no afterlife retribution. I f***ed his wife, however. Long may you taste my spump, Bri Boy.
From 2000-2003, he definitely was riding high. UOP was the only serious online school, the product sold itself, and the government generally didn't pay notice to the chicanery that UOP enrollment practiced. Around 2004, scrutiny of enrolment practices began to show, from the ED as well as the Arizona republic. ED fined Apollo for their practices, which Apollo paid because, in Mueller's own words, "it is much less expensive to just pay the fine and admit no wrong doing." At the same time, the astronomical growth had leveled out, and it ushered in the current practices of squeezing employees for numbers. This included consolidating the FIS and FA position with no formal training and a response to a question by saying, "if you don't like it...LEAVE." The last 3 years of his tenure were full of SEC, ED and state attorney investigations, along with revenue growth that had essentially stopped. At this time, Apollo had the financial strength to focus on student outcomes and brand quality, and would have not suffered one bit for doing so. Instead, Mueller expanded the university by thousands of employees and attacked all critics of the UOP enrollment and educational model, lying to his own employees saying that their was noting illegal in the enrollment matrix. When he saw that the host was bled out, he and his executives left for Grand Canyon University, leaving an unsustainable model behind.
Now, it is true that the level of anxiety that UOPers feel today did not exist when Mueller was there. But Mueller created the model that, with the too late ED crack down on UOP's slimebag enrollment policies, proved to be a ticking time bomb that exploded about 5 years ago. Also, Mueller oversaw a executive scandal revolving around backdating of stock options. When Mueller left for GCU, he brought the architect of that scandal with him to serve as his CFO.
Cappelli is simply an extension of that business model. He was able to capitalize on the recession, but that didn't last. He had no intention of making the Phoenix better, but now he simply has no alternative. Turning the business on its head while trying to maximize shareholder value is impossible, and all of you are dealing with that reality. The days of the multi-billion dollar for- profit education companies are over.
Mr. Brian Muller was the best thing that ever happen to UOP !!!