Out of curiosity does anyone know how we all got certified for the maximum in financial aid loans and grants when UOP paid for most of my tution. $5250 per year. I still was able to collect about $10000 in financial aid take home. My girlfriend was... — read more
UoPX will be gutted
When the international units of Apollo Education are legally separated from UoPX then UoPX will be sold piecemeal or as a whole. It the mean time UoPX will be stripe to the bone to make bottom line profit. No new technologies. Increased work around... — read more
July 27th 2017
Have been hearing a rumor of layoffs to occur on July 27th for a few weeks. Yesterday I get a meeting request for our entire department to take place on July 27th. Anybody experiencing similar occurrences?
It is all about the money
UoPX sells a product, Degrees. An Auto dealer sells a product, vehicles. At the dealership you agree to pay so much a month for so many months to own the vehicle. No guarantee that the vehicle will not break down or continue to perform. At UoPX you... — read more
Political "investments"
Apollo continues to politically "invest" in politicians about "education." https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=H5300
Deadline for Educational Deregulation Hearings Ends July 12
Anybody willing to blow the whistle on University of Phoenix's predatory practices? The deadline is July 12. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deadline-educational-deregulation-hearings-ends-july-12-dahn-shaulis
UoP not a resume asset
Absolutely there is a taint on former UoP employees in the job market! I was laid off recently (relatively speaking), and out of the 7 interviews I have had, three of them made open and sarcastic remarks about UoP. For example, at an interview for... — read more
Small campuses to disappear
We just completed campus remodels. I realize this had already been budgeted in the previous years, so the $ were already allocated. Most campus operations are being centralized. This is an efficiency and control measure but also likely to be the... — read more
Thoughts
Sum UoPX up in a few words. I will start Passive-Agressive
Simple
It is pure and simply people. Apollo Education was purchased by Apollo Global management for the acquisition of the international education organizations and the growth potential not the University of Phoenix. It is and may prove to be a very good... — read more
Gone
5 finance managers and 1 director gone. I wonder what's next...
University of Phoenix Resource Fee
Do you guys at UOP have any plans to stop rise of Resource Fees? My budget cannot keep up with you guys - I'd appreciate if you tell someone who's making decision that we have students who are quite a bit concerned about Resource Fees and would... — read more
Resumes at the ready
Get your resumes ready. Pistol Pete is going to cut cut cut. 3 rounds of layoffs by the end of the year. Get out now!!!
Course development moratorium
Moratorium on course development? What are we supposed to do in the meantime? Start cleaning out our desks and look for new jobs? Something's up at Sperling.
Get the email from the president today?
Sperling Center is closing. People will be consolidated to Riverhead, which means more layoffs to make room.
June 9
Tomorrow is the last day for many middle managers (CCC, ADAA, DAA). Lucky for them, they were give several weeks' notice. Some have already found jobs and have moved on. A few were hired for other positions in the company. The rest will be out... — read more
UoPX just the tip of the icerberg.
It's not just University of Phoenix or even for-profit colleges. Colleges for the working class have been facing a downturn for years. http://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2017/05/community-colleges-at-heart-of-college.html
Faculty Alignment
Its bad. Positions that were offered are being rescinded and positions people applied for were removed. I'm impacted. I'm taking my crappy severance and throwing out all the UOP crap I've got. Too bad my degree is from here too.
Later
Good Bye to my coworkers in enrollment and my past friends in the QC. It's been great passing information back and forth on what is happening at UoP. At least we brought some transparency to operations. Uop is not a bad place to work it is just a bi... — read more
Autodialer (and robocaller) lawsuits
(1) How is University of Phoenix getting these call lists? (2) Are people actually giving their consent to be called? (3) Is the University of Phoenix cross-referencing the numbers against the Do Not Call List? FYI: Capturing a telephone number using... — read more
The Saga Continues
I was nursing faculty at Breckinridge, saw the corruption and got out. ITT folded a month later. Now I am working for a Community College with a 90% NCLEX pass rate in the ADN program. I thought my troubles were finally over. Not so much! The U of PX... — read more
Enrollment Managers - Health Care and Nursing Enrollment
Where any Enrollment Managers laid off from Health Care and Nursing Enrollment? Were they demoted to Enrollment Advisors?
SS Directors and Managers
Are there any ground SS Directors and Managers anymore? Outside of Phoenix?
Manager Layoffs
Anyone know the 7 managers laid off today?
College Meltdown
It's going to get worse... http://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/
The worst is over!
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/education-department-for-profit-schools.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FDmNnQkJDpM
Occurrence...
So you have sick time and you use it and it's held against you, what a joke. As the r2t4 calcs go undone due to vocado, process a, b, c and constant understaffing where is the department of ed? What a joke UoP is....
I should have taken the severance package
I can't take it anymore.
For Sale
Looking for a Public College or University in Need of Online Growth. Willing to Set and enforce College Level Admission Standards? Willing to Have a rigorous education that stretches and Improves students? Willing to bring your standards and... — read more
President?
Who is the new President?
Keeps getting better
University of Purdue is buying Kaplan University. I wonder who will buy University of Phoenix??? I am sure no jobs will be lost, hehe hehe
Call I took yesterday
Student told me he was using additional funds for Xbox and "dank weed". I hope that call was recorded.
New President only has a Bachelor Degree
What a joke!
The "real" reason some FTF were laid off and others kept
The truth of the matter is that there is no reason at least not one that makes sense. I was retained however, the reason provided us only came after some caring faculty members expressed their disdain for how the separated faculty members were... — read more
Phoenix Scholarship Reward Program
Can we all agree that this was just a big scam on our students? I would get calls from students looking for more money and they would ask "what about that $10,000.00 scholarship I got" it was always fun to explain. Total scam. Bunch of crooks here at... — read more
I'm getting nervous
i think they may lay me off. I can't enroll people who want to be a RN into the whack associates degree. Where u at Camden u feel me? Holla
Marketing
Try The University of Phoenix!!!!!. Remember. WE AIN'T SO BAD
Vocado
Only $400,000 in write offs for Vocado in March, glad to know the system is working much better.
Downtheroad
Coming in May, the final Town Hall gathering for the QC.