It's always been very, very difficult teaching here, but this is as bad as I think I've ever felt. Many of the decent students are gone, and we're left with the students who never should have been allowed to enroll in the first place. Attendance is down (do you know how depressing it is to walk into a class with half the students missing?), standards have never been lower, and every week I wonder if I'll be fired because of what those CCI assholes did. This is just a miserable place to work now. Close us, sell us, set the place on fire, but I hope something happens soon.
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Anonymous 33151...I seriously hope you are not faculty. And if you are admissions/recruiting...nuff said.
UC Berkeley, not Cal State. And Caltech is private, but ranked both internationally and nationally for engineering and tech majors.
I would hire a Cal State grad over a CCI type any day of the week. The fact is the CCI chains are setup for people who cannot get into good schools. Cal State being good schools in this case comparatively.
I have had many students transfer to Cal State schools that accepted their general education classes taken at Heald.
We would have to know the reasons why the students were rejected by CSU if in fact any were. They were probably students who should never have been admitted to Heald in the first place.
Well, if our students are being turned down by the Cal State system, what does that tell you?
Cal State? That's a public chain set up for people who can't get into good schools, isn't it? CalTech is fine, and Cal Berkeley is ok, but the rest. Yuk!
Not that CSU is anything special, but . . .
You're kidding, right? Students don't want to transfer to another for-profit like Ashford College. They want to transfer to schools that are recognized, such as Cal State East Bay and San Jose State. Those stopped accepting almost all credits once they realized how little students knew.
Nonsense. Heald College has articulation agreements with several four-year universities, and credits do transfer provided the university to which the student is transferring has comparable classes. No college has to accept any transfer credits, and if an incoming student has credits that do not fit the new program, credits won't transfer. As an example, if a student takes Macroeconomics at one college that doesn't have Intro to Economics as a prerequisite, and then transfers to another college that does have Intro as a prereq for Macro, the new college may not accept the Macro credits. Anyone who knows anything about higher education is fully aware of that.
I remember night students started flocking away years ago when they found out their credits didn't transfer and that instructors were spending all their attention on the poor students.