Thread regarding University of Phoenix layoffs

New culture seriously? Have you been asleep in your cubicle or office? Wow!

Magic 8-ball answer to question "Is 60,000 the bottom for enrollment?": Don't count on it. Ok, let me try it again: My sources say no. One more shake: Cannot predict now.

Dang...

The UOPX president a few weeks ago said they planned on roughly 80k students by the end of the year. Now 70k students is the break even point for University profitability...do the math and the future looks somewhat bleak for them. It is sad because they do have a lot of good people in IT....management and senior leadership is the main problem. There is so many turf wars and managers protecting their turf....that is the new culture the new owners have brought...just sad.

To 'seven months w/o a class' - If you were teaching online, you would probably have been deactivated for not teaching for six months. Many online faculty were not scheduled for classes for six months, then shocked, after years of great peer reviews, attending faculty workshops and training without pay, and positive SEOCS, to get an email saying that because they hadn't taught for over six months they could reapply for a faculty position but that they were now deactivated, as though this were their choice. That is all perfectly legal, though slimy at best. It used to be one year, then they lowered it to six months to eliminate faculty they really didn't need. So you are teaching after seven months, consider that your campus valued you enough to not deactivate you and, like you, may be hoping for a positive trajectory in student enrollment.

I'm a faculty member at a local campus. I hadn't taught in over 7 months. I recently started a class with 3 students. Is this the future of teaching? Once every 7 months?

Current enrollment is roughly 90,000. New President told us in the last Town Hall that they're forecasting revenue of $1 billion for fiscal 2018, which is a 20% drop from 2017. That puts enrollment at about 70K for this time next year. They think that's the bottom, but I doubt it. I'd say 50K is way more likely given our trajectory over the past five years.

I was typing fast, I meant a Program Chair,

Not Faculty Chair, but yes they manage adjuncts.

B. Romney is looking for more to layoff. Next round coming in 2 to 3 weeks.

what's the job of a faculty chair? does he or she manage adjuncts?

It really is this bad. I'm at a campus that hasn't started a group in months, we have a faculty chair with literally 0 students in one program.