Hey everyone. Has anyone received any information about the potential Heald sale?
With it being a somewhat profitable school, do you think it will be sold off?
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41014: You obviously have a different definition of "student success" than 41010 or the other CCi faithful. Student success at CCi means that you enroll students by telling them that the hardest thing about getting a degree is making a phone call, and the rest will be EASY (while they're on their couch watching Maury Povich no less). Then you harass instructors to get students to just do something ("ANYthing!") once every two weeks to keep their Title IV. Make sure that those that give good grades get more classes, F-T that don't need to be pressured or fired. They turned in Week 2 work in Week 11? It's just one scrawled paragraph that's word-for-word out of Wikipedia (except that of course they still always somehow manage misspellings)? So what? pass them anyway. "Student Success" has nothing to do with learning or employability here. They (or rather the taxpayers) pay a tens of thousands of bucks and they get a degree.
Focused on student success? Are you serious? Heald focused on CCi's assess in classes after the acquisition. Faculty were no longer trained in adult education methods. Students were no longer responsible for homework. Instructors lowered their standards to the point that all papers received grades of B or better, no matter what their conditions. I even know of an intellectually challenged student who passed classes simply by turning in assignments that LRC staff said they had written for her. Heald was far less concerned with student success after CCi. It was only concerned with making sure students were in class. Instructors spent much more time doing outreach than teaching, preparing for classes, and grading papers. Thanks for spouting the management drivel, though, droid.
Don't assume something is "good" just because it's nonprofit. That's a virtual meaningless legal entity designation from an operational perspective. Heald has served students well for over 150 years. It began as a for profit and converted to a non profit around the 1960's and converted back to a for profit around 2006 — which I might add saved the bankrupt school by providing a desperately needed cash infusion. Also, it brought on a very experienced management team that focused on the student success. You can criticize the college all you like, but don't think that be a nonprofit is a panacea. People hear nonprofit and think "good" and hear "for profit" and think bad. It's just an oversimplification of a much more complicated situation.
It probably will be sold along with Wyotech and a few Everest schools. Wyotech would have been sold by now but CCi is pushing to sell them together with Everest as a package. I just don't see how they can last long enough for any sale to go through. It would be nice to be taken over by non-profit owners that want to do the right thing for the employees and students.
Probably, and unfortunately