FTF and middle management. There are still too many middle managers making way too much for what they do in return. Another 15 mid managers heads are on the guillotine from finance and academics. A total of 30 will most likely roll come August to Sept. Sep packages will be the same for the most part. Lower level employees will more than likely be cut back to about four weeks for tenured. Another 1,170 peons by the eoy. You have been warned.
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Yeah, the school of business has the biggest group of overpaid flunkies in managment. Especially the finance managers. I can't think of a bigger group of degenerates. They have one director that can't even work a PowerPoint. Amazing how such lackies get into these positions. I actually had one of these losers try to hit on me on the instant messenger. Turned out this sicko is married. This is another story all together. These people think they are just so cool. Get a life losers, you are managers in a call center.
We will know the accuracy of these posts once the lay offs occur and they will. I don't see why ' management' ( loose term) didn't estimate that enrollment numbers would not fall as fas t as they have been. Publicity is doing it' s job better than expected. When students call for advisers that just disappear or they get awkward ( no reason) phone calls) or are a below average student who suddenly gets a scholarship or students see DOD or FTC publicity ( not stupid) or see UOP up for sale...logical conclusions will be drawn...enrollment will only include students scamming for financial aid or other government benefits. I predict much of this will cone true. Less students = less managers= less directors=Cleaning house for buyout=primary goal profit =selling for parts= No UOP. Too much writing on wall to not determine that major reduction in workforce is coming. Need worker bees with smallest salaries and buyout agreement states salaries may be renegotiated in a year. Less renegotiation of higher salaries later if eliminated now. Managers and directors make more.. Top heavy in the management category. Keep the bad management to do dirty work and then lose them..like destroying evidence of a crime. Get those agreements signed upon departure to keep ' em quiet. If they only had a brain.
How many actual ACC CALLS are you getting a day? Does anybody work in healthcare and nursing--how many ACC CALLS are you getting a day? Are they just going thru old leads and not buying new ACC Leads? Share your thoughts? How many EA'S in healthcare/nursing are they going to lay off? Anybody know. How about other Enrollment Depts--how many EA's are they going to lay off?
@Doomsday Thanks for the tip on getting referrals! Imma start doing that.
Wow Earth shattering news?!?! Thanks for the update. Lol!
When will they come around to the campuses again? It seems like there are too many folks at the campuses who do nothing. Don't need a CD and DAA at some of these campuses. And community people? Huh?
@HBblWrQ-2ntp-- that's true. HLC is more concerned about credentials than FT status. They'll likely go back to the old days where they had a "lead area chair" or similar position that was full time, but very different than the work the FTF do. The HLC seems to be the most open to a "mostly adjunct" workforce. This site has some nice summaries on what the various accrediting bodies expect: http://www.aft.org/position/academic-staffing/accreditation-standards-academic-staffing#North%20Central
Well, maybe not...apparently the north central learning commission says nothing about requiring full time faculty.
I think that they have to keep some FTF. How can they keep accreditation with no full time faculty?
Student counts are falling even faster then executive management believed it could. At current pace, total enrollment will be below 140,000 this time next year, and that is being VERY generous. Expect at least one mass layoff of over 2,000 by end of year, in addition to a smaller layoff this summer (500-750) before private equity takes over. After private equity takes over, layoffs of roughly 70% of what remains is what is being discussed in the first year, staggered over a 9 month period. Severances being discussed have been largely focused on one week per year of employment, maxed out at 4 weeks. Executive management was counting on a slower reduction in total enrollment then what has actually happened, they really were not prepared for what has happened in 2016.
I'm also curious about specifics regarding the FTF. I had a sinking feeling when I read this that the FTF managers will be cut. They no longer lead team meetings and during the big meeting last week, our evaluation process was only discussed through the end of the fiscal year, likely since there's no clear path forward once the first-year sequence changes.
As for the money factor, course loads are dwindling (evidenced by the addition of GEN201 to our schedules). If there aren't enough classes to go around, it's not economical to have someone on staff for a FT salary. If I was an adjunct who was lucky enough to get 20 classes a year (the approximate load for FTF), I'd be making around $25k and they would not need to pay out benefits. Plus, if they're trying to attract actively working adults and/or a higher caliber student as the company moves forward, they won't need our more hands-on approach with the phone calls and interventions. Finally, no one knows the role FTF will play in the new course sequence. I'd hope we'd still be teaching the critical classes, but without data to assess the effect of our methods, it's hard to say if there's a financial benefit.
The Phoenix is losing $60 million a quarter. It simply cannot afford to keep the amount of people it has. Per the az republic, the Phoenix has roughly the same amount of students now that it had in 2002, but now has 7,000 more employees who make WAY more than people in 2002. When private equity takes over, they will immediately right size the Phoenix and begin to fix it. Years and years of short sighted, enrollment only thinking is the reason why the Phoenix is where it is at today. Lesson learned, enrollment is important, but is nowhere near the most important thing. The Phoenix failed because, instead of building up the brand, they chose to build a Ponzi scheme. The scheme only worked if they could sign up more suckers then were dropping. As all Ponzi schemes do, this one finally fell apart. Building a brand means building quality, which means serious investment in things other then number of telemarketers. The Phoenix never invested in those things, now they are paying the piper.
OP, did they say anything in particular about FTF?
When will the next round be for general enrollment August ???
Clearly combined by what the hr peep said. Last I looked, we still had over 9,000 peeps on the payroll so I would not write off the post so fast. Out of the 16 EA's on my team, we took two actual lead calls this entire week. Things are dead and we are calling people for no reason at all now. We are in desperate times. This place is going out of business for sure. No doubt in my mind seeing enrollments at zero. I am interviewing anywhere I can get one. Our team is at the point of picking up business cards at Filbertos and other places where people leave their business cards trying to win free s#lt. We call them and enter them in as leads as there is no way to get any otherwise. No one wants to seriously attend this joint. What is funny is the two calls that came through both asked when they were going to get paid out if they started. Pretty sad state of affairs down here in enrollment.
Everyone is being let go. ALL GONE. People post weekly about layoffs and 6 months later a small layoff occurs. Then everyone comments on how accurate the prediction was. Sigh. Keep on keeping on sheeple...
This is all true. Quit before you is pushed out.
I heard every for-profit and non-profit college out there is going to fire everyone and bring in McDonalds robots to manage students. Solid source too!
There is zero validity to this. If this were true it would mean ever FA/AC/ER and managers are being let go. Go spread your lies elsewhere.