Who was responsible for putting together the budget and forecasting enrollment? CFO? National DOA? Campus Directors? Over a year ago, we were told everything was on the up and up. That we were positioned for growth. We didn't have fInancial problems until they came and screwed up the budget and added a ton of positions at the home office
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Now, now. I have had good experiences with RZ. He does know his functional unit.
Zelaya is pompous
49277 - I agree with you. He has done nothing individually but hired people to do what he was supposed to do or have knowledge in. Robert Zelaya is a good hire. He actually knows how to do the job. But add their two salaries together and that's an expensive. Two people to do the job that should have been done by one. And if you say he also is Regional… well, that;s a joke. Jerry's promotion to that position made campuses lose that much more confidence in their decision making. He knows nothing! Especially what happens in operations or how to actually be a leader. He is a puppet.
Jerry has some experience in FA and as an "acting" campus director. Some experience does not mean success. Here is some online infohttp://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jerry-Rivera/1398003157
49268-and what about the sidekick Jerry Rivera. That dude doesn't even have a LinkedIn profile. What is his experience, does anyone know?
49268-and what about the sidekick Jerry Rivera. That dude doesn't even have a LinkedIn profile. What is his experience, does anyone know?
Who? Will Winkowski. Look him up on LinkedIn and you tell me if he had the right experience for such a big responsibility.
- You are spot on
I think Accounting accidentally moved the decimal over the wrong direction. Oops
48999 - I couldn't agree with you more. Things were much better when Marco B and Chris Davie were here. Again, they weren't perfect, but with a few more key roles in place to support their leadership style, then we would have had a dream team in both management and campus.
Good points made, 48999. sad days
It wasn't the money coming in ie enrollments. This is the saddest part. It was the money being spent on the top. SAE was poised to have excellent organic growth due to strong community relationships within the industry, local marketing, and a staff of people that had worked their butts off for years. These guys came in and rather than support the bottom level that supports the students, they supported themselves. They then took the credit for growth that was obviously going to happen due to title IV and accreditation.
Marco and Davie encouraged ownership and leadership within each campus. They weren't perfect, but they let the directors run their own schools. They encouraged communication between the schools so that everyone felt like they belonged to a family. And the teams across the US all bought in. Believing that everyone would reap the benefits of all of the hard work, the staff stayed on with little to no raises, yet added duties and responsibilities as they schools saw over 100% increase in student population. When these guys came in, they immediately stopped the communication between campuses, and completely cut of all transparency when it Came to making decisions. Often times, my director was the last person to know when changes were being made at the top.
Nashville lost FA & SA and marketing.
Does anyone know if they fired the Fin Aid person in Nashville? If so, who's doing fin aid there? In Atlanta they went from 3 fin aid reps down to 1
Seems like they wasted a lot of money on our program too. Gettin us each 3 iPads and then no way to get Internet access and the. Getting those wireless cards. It was like they had no plan and were making it up as they went along.
They should have rolled out the high school program out slower than they did. Instead of hiring 2 ambassadors for every campus it should have been 1. You do that.......give them an entire year (not 6-8 months like they did) to see what kind of volume they could bring in. Instead they promised these lofty ass goals and numbers that people who never did high school presentations could never and would never be able to achieve. They over promised Global or whoever and when the numbers weren't coming in.........they made the ambassadors the fall guys......damn shame too
That's unfair for the High School Ambassadors. No one understood that program at Global. And George should have positioned it right with them. The Head person I met once and he seemed like a cool guy.
Whoever said that the High School ambassadors didn't do anything just showed they don't know what they are talking about. We as ambassadors didn't have a chance to impact the campus starts. For the most part we didn't even last a full year and half of the ambassadors didn't work but 3-4 months of the school year so how do you suppose we would have any kind of impact? For the high school team to have a chance we needed a full academic school year for everyone to see if it was a good or bad idea....that we didn't get. Most ambassadors didn't get proper training and very little support. I agree that George should have been one to have been fired. It was he and Scott who over promised what we as ambassadors could do. They sold them crap that we had no way of producing in such a short period of time. So please get your facts right before you say we didn't do anything
Took long enough.
I heard Global has been around to clean up shop. Do they realize they got rid of the wrong people? Will, George and Denise had controls on this the entire time. This was their mistake!!!! But now campuses and good people had to be let go. I don't blame global, but I hope they see where the true blame lies.
Ha. Good one!
I think Joe in the back room put it together. I'll go ask him once he's done mopping the floor
I've never seen or heard of a budget. I think it's created for us.