At the Pittsburgh campus I can confirm most of what the original poster said (cannot confirm faculty). In addition I can confirm that every department will be decimated. They are moving to a "one stop shop" approach. The idea will be one department that will have a "service agent" that will handle financial aid, accounting, career services, academics, housing and student affairs." There will be one specialist per campus per department that will guide these generic "agents." As far as I understood this will not happen to admissions however they will see the removal of leadership positions (director/senior director) and be replaced with a single lower paying admissions coordinator position that would work with the new campus director position.
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One specialist per functional area per campus, reporting to regional managers from those functional areas.
So you'll have a one-stop shop with generalists who work with students on advising, financial aid, accounting, student affairs, and a specialist from each functional area (lower level than the current campus manager in that functional area, such as the dean of students, and paid less). It sounds maybe nice in theory but in practice nobody will be able to do anything because they're always going to have to check with their specialist who will have to check with their regional manager. Most of what we as campus personnel do now is put out fires, which means the fires will burn things down by the time anyone is able to try and put them out.
In other words there will be several "agents" per campus (one for each specialty - accounting, student affairs, etc...) to form a department and then one "specialist" total per campus to oversee all of the "agents"?
Then theoretically this one "specialist" would oversee these "agents"? The "specialist" could potentially have no prior experience in any of these key areas other than the area (career services, academic affairs, etc...) they came from?
Is that the understanding?
Will the one "specialist" sit on the campus as well?
The call will involve campus presidents, group vice presidents and other regional positions.
The new regional presidents I am not entirely privy to. I have heard rumors only, some of which have been mentioned on this forum in the past week.
By campus leaders are you referring to EC, (SFS, Deans, accounting etc)? They will all be on this call informing them that they are going to get laid off in June?
Who will be the regional presidents?
Because the right hand does not see nor care what the left hand is doing. The hiring will end in mid may. Until then all operations must continue as they are. Campus leaders will be on a call in mid-may that will announce the outline of the restructure. Only leaders and HR will be aware until the 2nd week of june.
Ask your campus president next week, the call should be scheduled and on their outlook calendars by them.
Several key figure presidents are already aware (those targeted for the new regional president roles) but most are mot.
None of this makes any sense. EDMC Ai recently hired 5+ presidents in FY16 and multiple EC members throughout the nation and now they are being laid off? Why would they incur such outrageous and enormous costs only to let these same people go a few months down the road? Even if the hiring of presidents was strategic (accreditation), what was the point of hiring the rest of EC?
What about readmissions and advising?
Lol @ teachers requiring an advanced degree... Back when I was there in 2012 half of the teachers were still in school themselves while teaching classes and "working towards" their degrees.
Grads teaching at AI's without a graduate degree? How is that possible? I thought was part of the accreditation standards.
Registrars have yet to be mentioned in any of the circles I run in. However a big theme of this restructure is cutting salaries, so it's very possible registrars could be laid off, a regional registrar created, and a lower paid assistant registrar would be on campus. That is the plan for many of the other positions.
Does this include Registrars?
Many of the recent graduates are now adjuncts instructors at AIs. I really don't think EDMC is worried about accreditation. They are trying to close schools as swiflty as possible without potential legal issues.
Hard to believe the regional accrediting bodies will turn their cheek to this non-student centered approach. National accreditors will not perceive this as a problem, it is a model used at many vocational schools, including BMC until a few years ago (maybe still at some campuses). Career Services is nothing more than a telemarketing department, which could easily be centralized. Student Affairs is almost irrelevant. SFS is a very specialized area, hard to see how a generalist can handle this. Does not bode well for students. More campuses will close.
Thanks for this information, it's good to plan ahead. When you say decimated, do you mean complete staff layoff in these departments? Advising, EP's, ADR's and advising? Thanks again.
Yikes. These posts sound legit. I feel bad for the employees and their families who will be effected. There is life after EDMC though. I've been gone for two years and the transition wasn't bad at all.