I was a financial aid planner with CCI, more particularly with Everest University Online and Everest College Phoenix. I only mention this because I feel your grief whether you be admissions, financial aid, student services or career services. I have been reading the various posts on the U of p Layoff website as well as the posts regarding complaints from your students.
I might suggest you go to CCI Layoffs and go back and read our earlier posts about our concerns about senior management, quality of students we we were accepting and the governmental troubles that were starting to evolve. I suggest this only because of the tremendous similarities that arise now with you and where CCI was only a year or so ago.
I, too, like many of you took my job seriously, wanting to make a change in a person's life. Initially, before greed superseded everything else I was doing just that. Then we lowered our demographic target and started getting the Pell chasers, defaulted students, etc. There were times when I would call the admissions rep back after a transfer of a call for financial aid assistance and tell that rep that in good conscience I couldn't soak this student with $9500.00 in debt. If the rep wouldn't take the call back I would go to a RVP and tell them I was not going to take the call and if that was not satisfactory they could fire me on the spot. I never got fired but worse yet someone else would work through the prospective student's illiteracy and finish the enrollment process.
Yes, I was a hypocrite for continuing to do financial aid for those students whom could string two words together and make a sentence. There were times; about one out of a hundred when I really got a real sharp person on the phone and my first inclination was to whisper to them to run like hell to a good community college or go to work at Starbucks and go to ASU free online for two years.
What I see as a reoccurring theme throughout your posts is that mantra that you are too big to fail. Unfortunately you are next in line to fail because your school is following the CCI pattern of failure......to a T.
When I got laid off it was no big deal to me. I had already retired after a successful run with a Fortune 50 Company and the new buyer had to give all of us two months severance pay. I did feel the angst of some of my coworkers whom were not in my position.
I guess the purpose of this missive is to suggest you start planning the next step in your career. From what I read from strictly a business point of view I would be highly surprised if you are not out of business by year's end are sold.