OP - on the day they shut their doors, probably sooner than later.
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My success story: Once, while calling for outreach at 1 in the afternoon, I woke up a student who yelled at me to stop calling her. I successfully got her ass out of bed!
Outreach has nothing to do with student success. It's a joke and I have yet to see it work. Students who are failing, fail. Period. But it's their choice to fail. If they did the work, reached out to instructors for help, or go to tutoring, they would not fail. The curriculum is so easy that if you do the most basic minimum, you will pass. But these students do not do any work. They cover their federal loan money and breach their loan contracts. And do it all again the next term. It takes as much work
To fail as it does to succeed.
23378, outreach does NOT help students succeed! That's hilarious. You must not teach or work
For student services. Outreach is a big fat waste of time where student services and instructors are mandated to call students who don't attend class, do assignments, join in the threads, take a quiz, or have a grade go below 70. This happens with more than 60% of students. They take out loans for stipends and the never do any work. Wait, they show up once every 14 days to be marked present so the stipends keep coming. Students who fail at Everest, do so on purpose. We call and students tell at us. We email and they respond to stop bothering them. There's no success there! In theory it should be helpful. But the culture of the school is that you can keep getting your stipends but not have to do anything for it. Make no mistake. It is not designed to help students succeed. It's simply an exercise to show DOE they are reaching out to students.
The point of it isn't to help students succeed, especially at this point of the game. It's to get students to show attendance through 60% of the term so that CCi can keep all of their federal aid money. Level of participation or future prospects for the student are irrelevant.
They know that the students they recruit won't make it. Retention levels are ridiculously low. It's all for show. Outreach is a stupid waste of resources and time. And it takes away from instructors teaching. I spent 50% plus of my week on outreach alone. So students who actually work to earn their degrees suffer, because of the time it takes us to try to coerce students into fulfilling the contracts they sign to take money for an education they have no intention of getting. But the poor students are victims. They take out loans to get stipends and get pissed when you call to ask why they aren't coming to class. It's a not very secret joke by everyone.
By December 31, 2014 after bankruptcy is filed.