Well, folks, that's it; next step - shut it down...
Apollo Education sale 'golden parachute' could be worth $22 million for executives.
How nice is knowing that the fat cats that took the company's value from $14B to $1.1B are being fairly rewarded for that heroic effort... — read more
Another False Claims Lawsuit
Another federal case made public, this time in Ohio.
Trump to Close University of Phoenix
Well everybody, Donald Trump made a public statement on Friday that he will make sure that UoP will be shut down when he is president. I'm sure it's not his top priority but he made the statement. And Trump stands by what he says. Personally, I can't... — read more
Jim Brent - The CEO of a Failed For-Profit College Started a Coding Bootcamp
From vice.com: Written by JORDAN PEARSON STAFF WRITER (CANADA) February 24, 2016 // 09:00 AM EST For-profit coding bootcamps, intensive courses that promise to teach attendees practical programming skills in a short amount of time, have rapidly... — read more
Where are all the directors, acm's and fcm's all day? Anyone who works for the hypocrites knows damn well these people do not work.
I call them hypocrites because they come back from their weekly disappearing act and try to hold people accountible for the exact same nonsense they are pulling. Yet the peons are held to a much higher standard. Everyone knows exactly who these... — read more
What do you think?
It is streamlining. It is not that hard. The ACC/QC transfers potential students to ERs. ERs sign them up after explaining the degree/certificate/ class. Academic Counselors help the student to finish. Finance Advisors take care of the money... — read more
This JUST in -
New VP is as bad as they said he was going to be. We've digressed (again) and at this point there is ZERO faith in leadership from the TOP all the way down now to the VP level. This guy spends two hours a day at the gym playing basketball with the... — read more
The clown car has arrived...
What's unbelievable at this point are leaders like Brett and Chris and Kris Jacksom who think that these postings on this web site are a minority of opinion. You're fools. Old and new directors and managers alike, including leadership in central... — read more
He is a premier kiss ass and used to fire all non-mormons. He was called in on this case and they lost!!!
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-10-08.cfm He is going to help downsize college of business further so watch out.
Put up with it
The Constitution doesn’t say that you have a right to be free from other people saying things that you don’t want to hear. It says that you have a right to say whatever you want to say, and other people have to put up with that.
UOP Hillary Clinton Connection: https://twitter.com/GROSS__96/status/702945500102836224
https://twitter.com/GROSS__96/status/702945500102836224
If anyone thinks the most recent layoffs of the senior VP's was a good thing, think again.
JD, Kay, Josh, Wade? Seriously, you mean the only VP's who truly cared about the employees? They're gone, and so aren't many directors and managers again soon. This company doesn't want anyone who resist stupid initiatives. I know for a fact they... — read more
Reorganization 2016
Wade Anderson, for Business gone now taken over by Brett Romney. They combined IT, HC and CJ under Chris Galore so JD and Mark Mendoza...gone. ED and HP are under Maria Zuzich. Also Tony Abroscoto in the East and Jeremy Confer in the West are gone... — read more
UOP to change name to Scarecrow Vocational School
Upon graduation every " gradumarate" will be able to sing the complete song list of The Wizard of Oz. This skill will help them while away the hours at the McDonald's fry or burger station.
Layoffs
Anyone hearing about some high level layoffs today?
Homework Tutorials
Homework Tutorials and Homework Help Websites The obvious focus of the services provided to students is to improve their patterns of learning while increasing personal interactions between tutors and the students. Online homework services offered... — read more
ADT bought by Apollo
Home security firm ADT acquired by Apollo Global Private equity firm Apollo Global Management has acquired ADT, which it will merge with competing security firm Protection 1. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1TnJYgI
UoPX Most Hated College Among Veterans
University of Phoenix gets the most GI Bill complaints. It's not just the size of the school that gives it so many complaints.............................https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/veterans-most-hated-us-colleges-dahn-shaulis?published=u
UOP - If I only had a brain
If I only had a brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtrteOph_3k So my kids don’t have to forage / Got two jobs to pay a mortgage And I’ve also got a brain. Life’s short, talk is cheap / I’ll be working while you sleep Still don’t think I’ve got a... — read more
Camden, did you see who is taking over!!!!
The investment group from Chicago is headed by The Treasurer for both of President Obama re-election campaigns plus the new CEO of Apollo will be the former Deputy Secretary of Education (2009-2013) with the Obama administration!!! Camden you have... — read more
Even Hitler Hates This..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8a1-FD35ZA
Deal can still go sour
Deal is not approved yet and even if it is, this company is going bust and likely to cause the deal to fall through pretty soon... — read more
We have seen similar scenarios
David Halperin and I have seen similar scenarios with for-profit colleges in decline. They are bought and sold, but the direction is the same. Going private only makes the organization less transparent for students and workers. At Corinthian... — read more
Your new owner, Leon Black
They don't call him a vulture capitalist for nothing.
The Vistria Group and Najafi Companies
They will go after cash flow after the acquisition closes, so cutting payroll will be the highest priority
Apollo accepted a buyout offer from Vista and the "other" Apollo"
I guess we won't be posting as much here now that the company is being run by others. No more Capelli pictures?
Uopx layoffs what happened?
What happened to the massive Uopx layoffs predicted for the first week in February?
Could "Rise to the Top" Kill University of Phoenix?
I would put University of Phoenix's "Rise to the Top" campaign as the most misleading for-profit college ad campaign that's currently being used.--almost as misleading as the Devry ads that recently got that school in trouble with the FTC. The Rise... — read more