Thread regarding Education Management Corporation layoffs

I worked in IT as a campus Tech Support Supervisor for many years, and i have never witnessed any purposeful software license infractions. Yes, instructors get eval copies... but come on.. if 3D modeling program is how you make your money... invest in yourself, buy the software. We need all the license counts for the classroom.

BMC start for December drum roll........... 2!!! Way to go admissions. This is how stupid my DOA IS, we dial over 100 calls with an average call time of 3-4 seconds per call for a total of 15 minutes. F--- off for the rest of the day, she is a dumb blonde with zero understanding of what to do, stays in her office, walks out and says good job people and she scratches her head on why good people are quitting. Campus director is no better, he is clueless, talks talks talks but has no idea how to implement change. This guy stands in front of the mirror to comb his hair and practice his speech. He is all about him, I am in his office on Fridays, you look around and it's all awards, all about how great he was in 1995. No pictures of his family, wife or anything else. Total joke!! Director and DOA will kill this campus, total enrollment under 196. Teach out coming, I will ride the wave to get the severance it should be good to watch.

One instructor boasted how his wife completed his argosy graduate degree and she taught his online classes for Aip. I witnessed students posting for instructors for their online classes too. This went on for years....

I sat on that same committee for AI. We would reject and reject potential students who were very unprepared for college. Admissions reps would just put them right back into the pool, after the potential student had failed the appeal. It got to the point where the person who was the head of the committee at the time (who is higher up in the company) had to create a rule where a potential student who was rejected 3x, could not re-apply for 6 months. No idea if that rule is still in play, but seeing the admission process was extremely depressing.

I sat on a faculty committee on "admissions", where we reviewed and approved applications. This was one of the main experiences that confirmed that a huge majority of applicants and future students were not prepared to go to college, and would never finish a program. Maybe 1% could write an "essay" of any quality. Anything rejected could be re-submitted and faculty were overridden at every turn. Before I left last year, the majority of department schedules were heavily aimed toward first year courses and they were increasingly unable to afford offering upper-division courses. So the programs were catering to the obviously-going-to-fails on the bottom at the expense of the people who had stuck it out all the way through.

Well I wonder if they are still violating copyright infringement by circulating illegal copies of software among the staff? As a big for profit company, they are supposed to bay a license fee for all the graphics software they use, of which cost up to 5,000 per seat. The dirty secret is they by say 30 licenses but then have their tech guys install 90 to 100 seats so the software company never has a clue they are being ripped off. Less money out of the department budget means they can spend it on other things. Those free evaluation copies they give to instructors, they get 5 and circulate 10 more from a cracked source. Of coarse this was not on paper, or in an official meeting with meeting notes, always on the down low. That's what I saw when I was there in spite of their public clams and large meeting how they want to avoid this.

You're B.S'n us. You'll gloat and talk crap and never do anything while good people need your help.

Ha! I could write a book on this topic. And would be more than happy to share every one of their dirty secrets. Well for a price that is. Or as a favor to the DOJ. Anything to put them in jail.

Hahaha! Trying to make positive changes? By letting go their full time faculty? Fighting gainful employment? Raising champagne flutes because they got a slap on the wrist from the government instead of closure? Happy the stock had tripled to .... 16 cents?

I'm CERTAIN there is little positivity and that they are still INDEED throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. I haven't even been there in 3 years.

There's nothing super interesting. You come to work, you work, you go home. The whole EDMC is evil edict is slowly changing. It's no longer throw anything against the wall and hope it sticks. There is legit positive change happening but there are still a lot of negative people and quite frankly a well earned negative stigma. It may be too late to change and save the company but they are trying.

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