http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/inside-the-ecmc-corinthia_b_6533298.html
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The States really need to block this sale, period! Students affected should be out in full force with news crews filming them and reporting on this deal with the devil.
Anonymous60791: This references an article posted Friday, it IS new. Try harder.
Please tell us something new.?
For the students in programs with placement below 66%, choices 2 and 3 are going to be incomprehensible to most of them. That means that they will by default choose Option 1. Tricky, tricky, tricky.
Option 3 is NOT a good option. They would only be able to transfer to other shitty for profit schools. The only real option would be to get a refund and move on to a real school.
God, why would ANY student not take option 3!?! Are some of them really that dumb?
I was the employee who provided documentation to RepublicReport.org and this article goes to show what an individual with knowledge of CCI's culture and processes can achieve. More of you need to do the same. It took me around 6 hours of research to create a good email list for journalists from the web, tv, radio, and print. Another hour to learn about anonymous surfing to make sure I was protected (even though we do have special protections due to our schools receiving Pell). We come on here and express concerns that we are hurting people with what we keep going along with. The general public really has a right to know -- it's all about their tax moolah. That's what drives the whole, ugly machine. Peace out!
This article looks like it came out Friday, but I think the 4th floor missed it somehow (seems I saw a few sneak out early). There is sure a buzz today, though, what with this and the new one from Biz Week. Brings to mind the "chickens with their heads cut off" cliche. The big shots are definitely planning on getting a huge payout if/when the deal goes through, though I'm not sure from where (percentage of sale price?). I swear I think they would kill their firstborns for "the deal" the way they're circling the wagons to try to protect it.
You're right, that is the sticking point with me. If ECMC was serious about reforming CCI, we wouldn't have the worst of the worst laughing and telling us "nothing's going to change." It's frustrating...
This is the part that i think we need to make noise about: "ECMC has said that it will hire new senior executive leadership to oversee the campuses and online programs that it is purchasing from Corinthian, but that it will retain the majority of line personnel and middle managers who administer these programs. Thousands of Corinthian employees are expected to join ECMC. Corinthian announced in mid-December that a call center in Colorado Springs, Colorado which employs about 200 people will close effective February 28 and that operations there will be consolidated into two other call centers located in Thornton, Colorado and Tampa, Florida. Zenith has plans to hire additional personnel in both locations." ED, the press and the public need to know that these 'middle managers" are unqualified and unethical. They were as much or more of the problem than executive management. It's not a good sign that they are staying. It sounds much more like "business as usual" than reform of a diseased company.