Thread regarding University of Phoenix layoffs

Pathway C taken away to pave way for easier admission.

It’s clear the school is getting more desperate to enroll and trying to enroll any and every student that is breathing.

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There used to be a “diagnostic” the school would require for students to start classes. It was easy! So easy most grade schoolers could pass it. The school tried to salavage its “reputation” by having these “tests” for incoming students. But they realized a problem, many students couldn’t pass this grade school test. So what did the school do, they removed it from admission requirements!!

Yes, they made it even easier for students to get into debt and fail classes, so UOP could pad their numbers for enrollment and investors looking to flip the company for profit. Now, anyone with a fake GED or HS diploma can get into this degree mill school. It’s that easy. Zero admission standard. Zero!!

As someone in admissions, I find it so sad UOP has gone to this level just to generate revenue when they know these students won’t pass classes and when they struggle spelling their own name correctly.

Another sad, sad day to be an employee here at this degree mill, profit driven company.

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Post ID: @OP+XA2xW6A

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Do not judge. Let the student try. Many students of mine graduated even though the grad team bet the student wouldn’t make it through the first block

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Post ID: @4fsg+XA2xW6A

I can believe your manager rated your call that way. Remember it is always an ER fault when a student does not enroll, start a class or drops the program. The university has spent tons of money on your different training programs they keep investing in.. Enrollment coaches ... LOL

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Post ID: @2fzg+XA2xW6A

My manager listened to a call today with me advising the student to seek a community college. The student was so hard to understand due to the lack of clear English. This wasn’t a foreign student either. My manager was upset because I didn’t push the student to attend and mad I didn’t enroll the student. These are our leaders. They want you to enroll without the students best interest in mind. It’s all about the schools best interest, period.

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Post ID: @2sup+XA2xW6A

This is why I stopped teaching for UOP. It was painfully obvious, at least at the undergraduate level, that they were deliberately enrolling students who would go on to fail (or who would be passed through until they ultimately had to quit). The response was not really to remediate the students, because they eliminated those remedial programs and workshops. The response was to make the courses ever easier. What they offer at the undergrad level are not truly college courses.

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Post ID: @1vme+XA2xW6A

You mean to tell me they don't have the differentiated early program courses for people that needed more remedial work? At least a couple of years ago, there was a differentiated path for those that scored badly in the diagnostics test.

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Post ID: @1ehk+XA2xW6A

I couldn’t have said it any better. I work in academics and the desperation to keep unqualified students in class is sickening. It appears only a matter of time before this will all catch up to the university. The president says we are growing, but at what cost?

I am ashamed to work there as well.

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