Right down to low level management. I get that they we aren't privy to all the details, but maybe a few answers and a pat on the back ought to help some employees feel a little better. This hiding out in the corner and tersely worded emails just proves that they can't lead. Good leadership should get better when times are tough. They sure knew how to give out FT jobs and P cards, though. If there were a prize, they'd get the Enron Leadership of the Year Award. If you are a manager with CCI, you should be ashamed of yourself, for what you are doing to the students and employees. It's time to lead, Bob and Jack. Not hide out waiting to give us more bad news.
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All departments are the same. IT for example is/was made up of most of Carmella's friends and associates from her time at Ingrahm Micro. Look at most of the senior executive team background and expeienece on LinkedIn. Bill Bucannon is hilarious as well as Roger Van Duinen. Most really have no work experience or real skillsets. In this economy with so many canidates most willhave hard times frinding easy-peezy jobs.
25153, they know who they let in the schools. It's their asses, not yours. They know you have no control over who ends up in your classroom. They also know the retention rate is 60%. So, f*** them and their bully tactics. If a student does the it's minimal work he or she will pass. If they don't do the work and participate, they fail. It's not your job to force students to get the education they signed up for. We can't do anything about stipend students. I've worked at many schools, even other for profits. I've never, ever seen suck a lack of caring or willingness to participate as this school has. But the jokes on the high level management. Look how the mighty have fallen. Next term, there won't be students to educate.
Anonymous25128, I never understood the "pass or it's your ass." Our campus president came into a weekly meeting and told us that if the students weren't passing, we weren't educating.
4th Floor needs Intelligent Heart Training Stat!!
I was an instructor and I am sorry if students had a bad educational experience. I had a lot of great students who I enjoyed teaching very much. I was in the threads every day and posted about 20% of the time. I responded to all inquiries. If a student asked me to work one on one, I made the time. I not only fulfilled my contract in it's entirety, I went above and beyond for any student that asked. I had at least 5 students tell me they requested me for this term (and told they would get me.) I also regularly had students complain about their lack of education from other instructors. Until I came to this board, I had no idea how terrible other instructors were or how poorly they made my profession look. Their lack of respect for students is astounding. I'm an online educator so I never spoke or had contact with other instructors in my entire time there. I figured if I didn't fulfill my contract and ensure my students the very, very expensive education they paid for, then I failed. And I don't fail. I loved being an instructor. Outreach stunk, but every job has aspects that stink. And now instructors are bellyaching about having to do extra work. At least they have work. My adjunct position ended after last term. I have classes. All empty. I never got any students this term. So please don't take just the instructors on here as the only type CCI has. There are those who at least have some basic dignity and do their jobs.
Faculty participation in the CCi model of teaching and evaluating what has been learned has apparently erased any memory of what education means and how teachers should treat students. We have been successful in alienating students not just from CCi but from education in general. Think about that as you plan your retirement. What was your role in making sure US workers won't work. Think about why you will be working into your 80s. Will you treat the children and grandchildren of your current students the same way you treat their parents now?
I know when I worked at a cci school it was "hey ensure those in danger of failing pass or else it's your ass" has finally caught up to them. F*** cci and those POS so called leaders go suck a duck!
Their treatment of faculty and staff is horrible. But it seems endemic of this business model. At the school I work at, as soon as there is bad news (even before this meltdown), the DOA and all the PDs call faculty into one inane meeting after another just to tell everyone they need to be better educators and put more effort into keeping students on board. Dolts.
All the good leaders were systematically eliminated in favor of a bunch of parrots.
Employees and students should post their stories here, so they can see we are humans, with families, and lives, and bills, and worry about our futures. I would like to think somebody in management will feel bad.
I think the only thing that keeps them up at night is worry about their own jobs.