Nothing changes, boss still lies and plays employees against one another, every employee out for themselves to look good. No room left under the bosses desk......
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Anonymous80795: our enrollment numbers have gone down, but that is from the negative publicity & word of mouth. They've also been going down for years so it represents a bit of a drying up of our target pool. We've already enrolled a lot of our target market in many locations, and many have either not gotten jobs or dropped out and badmouth us. We're not changing who we market to or how we deal with them. I haven't seen anything that could be described as a change except the new name. ECMC's first priority was making sure that students couldn't sue by implementing the arbitration, no jury trials, and no class action agreements. If anything, they are even more aggressive than our old masters were. They are making it so we in Admissions can go all out and do whatever we want to sell the mark, and be untouchable no matter how we do it. Numbers will still go down. No real leads equals no enrollments no matter how hard you push them.
Me again. And I want you to know that we realize that our enrollments will go down. It won't affect me -- we need at least one person on campus to answer student's finance questions. I'll still be here. But yes, it will affect others and we will shrink as a campus and as a company. It's not a questions of being careful what we wish for. If we don't go in that direction (and currently, we are not) we will go away altogether just like CCI is about to. We have to change, there's no choice about it.
Anonymous80795: Your post doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm in student finance at Zenith. You're implying that we're suddenly offering less aid to the bottom rung students and that they are canceling and not starting. That also implies that we are continuing to market to and attract them. Nothing in their financing has changed. Genesis went away ages ago and we are required by law to offer and process the maximum aid that the student is eligible for, including for living expense stipends. The only way we'll see change is through marketing and admissions raising their standards. I haven't seen that happen one iota at my campus.
No.... New company, same shit. Same nasty b*** for RVPO (RM) same divisionals. Strangely enough we are expecting different results.
None of you actually work at a zenith campus or you would be seeing the changes being made. Apparently you don't get the reports on enrollment numbers. The students CCi went after can't get enough financial aid for rent and living so they are canceling. We are not enrenrolling the ones that only want the free money. The new enrollees will have their own money in the game, just what everyone wanted. The problem is there are very few of them. Be careful what you wish for or you just might get it.
Did anyone actually expect anything different?
OP: (1) you do not nor ever have worked for CCi, (2) you are gross and not welcome in this forum.
(I apologize for the double post -- the site is really, really slow today, so after over a minute I hit submit again)
Anonymous80342 -- it's easy to get frustrated working here. In all fairness, if you're at a campus you know that there are students that we've helped. They needed our scheduling (or sometimes some extra hand-holding) to finish a program. but applied themselves and ended up in careers that will allow them to support their families. I've always been a glass-half-full person, and think about the successes when I'm dealing with the seemingly never ending stream of lazy, rude, stipend wanting idiots. At this point, I have to leave. I'm at a Zenith school and nothing, and I mean nothing has changed. There will not even be an attempt to reach out to potentially good students. It will still be scraping the bottom of the pickle barrel for the least motivated, and enticing them to sign up with promises of stipends and no work to get a "degree." If ECMC wanted to keep me, there would at least be lip service paid to our horrible Admissions process. It sucks here!
Anonymous80342 -- it's easy to get frustrated working here. In all fairness, if you're at a campus you know that there are students that we've helped. They needed our scheduling (or sometimes some extra hand-holding) to finish a program. but applied themselves and ended up in careers that will allow them to support their families. I've always been a glass-half-full person, and think about the successes when I'm dealing with the seemingly never ending stream of lazy, rude, stipend wanting idiots. At this point, I have to leave. I'm at a Zenith school and nothing, and I mean nothing has changed. There will not even be an attempt to reach out to potentially good students. It will still be scraping the bottom of the pickle barrel for the least motivated, and enticing them to sign up with promises of stipends and no work to get a "degree." If ECMC wanted to keep me, there would at least be lip service paid to our horrible Admissions process. It sucks here!
Well the DOE certainly seems to have gone back to being a subservient lapdog. Honestly, it's what we're going to see as long as Congress is in Republican control. They will pull any strings to protect this taxpayer funds-draining industry. If it led to skilled, motivated workers who could/would support their families, it MIGHT be worth it. As it is, this company (by any name) is just a leach on society, redirecting income tax dollars to the pockets of the wealthy.