The amount of denial on here makes me sick. This place is in the frying pan for many good reasons that you criminals just plain can't admit. The legacy of this school for the last 20 years is not positive and it has ruined hundreds of thousands of lives. The handful of still brainwashed students you see today haven't spent 5 years looking, been laughed at, or had the years of collections and garnishments that past students have warned them about. You staff haven't helped anybody, the most helpful thing any of you could do is quit.
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OP needs to take a writing class.
I appreciate that employees are seeking answers, and trying to help students. But that doesn't mean people can't post opinion that school deserves to close -- which is the title of this particular thread.
I worked as adjunct -- I saw the writing on the wall months ago -- I did all I could to encourage my students to start doing due diligence. I was assuming then that ITT-Tech would withhold all info as usual.
Get over ourselves? Because we need answers to share with students and staff? I have a new job now following this mess, maybe you should focus on that yourself.
Corporate vs. staff? Does that matter to students?
I dont think so
"We care about the students!" "It is all corporate's fault!" "You won't get anything better at community college!"
Wow, get over yourselves!
The misconception you have? Campus employees have demanded answers and emails are silent. Our students know more than we do. Several have left voluntarily. We want info to pass along but are being told nothing. Nothing.
Why shouldn't students vent their anger here! Employees know more about what is going on than students, and employees are angry! Students have been kept even more in the dark, why shouldn't they be angry!
Employees are upset about how much severance they are going to make! They are angry about how little they get! Students have been paying in thousands of dollars a quarter! Of course they are pissed off. Let them vent!
Nothing in there about future. There is no future in the educational bubble. Call your local community college and ask them to draft your resume, and develop a skills based approach to employment. They will laugh you out of their government funded office. Good luck thinking government does it better.
Many employees still and do care, you have no clue what goes on behind the scenes. Unfortunately, corporate doesn't share that same sentiment. Take your anger somewhere else.
Corporate controlled virtually everything. Program design, admission and retention criteria, prerequisites, curriculum packages, online resources, lab equipment, computers, faculty retention initiatives, etc. "Applying yourself" as a student is NOT supposed to be a replacement for all that! Applying yourself as a student at a legitimate school is what higher education is all about!
Anyone who believes that local staff somehow were able to compensate for all those corporate shortcomings, and miraculously deliver an educational experience that was worth several hundred dollars per credit -- you are in complete denial of reality.
Current and former students deserve the real story, not more corporate denials, pointing fingers, guilt-tripping local staff pretending they didn't know anything. Time to make up for your part in this mess, or at least acknowledge it, instead of dumping even more BS out here.
Nothing in there about it being free, you're the fool if you think 18 times what a state school cost is a fair deal. Jobs won't matter since even people employed are lucky to make half what they would from a more reputable school. This place has been on welfare for 20 years and damaged lives. If you still think ITT has a future YOU are the one who needs an education.
Good luck thinking any degree is free. If you can't get a job because you never applied yourself, don't use a broad brush. The staff cared. Corporate did not. Learn the difference.