One instructor from Blairsville sent Jack an email saying that the attrition rate was not due to the poor performance of instructors-they were being used as scapegoats. Lots of issues needed to be addressed. Too bad he didn't listen.
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What is the Platinum Professor initiative? I'm a FTF and I've never heard of it.
PIPS were given to instructors for student attrition 2 years ago at our campus. Instructors of several classes that had a very high attrition rate for one particular phase were held solely accountable for that attrition rate. The fact that this was an anomaly and other root causes (particularly the quality of the students enrolled) were never taken into consideration. This strategy backfired in a major way. The resulting effect was that some instructors began to pass every student, deserving or not, and make extra-ordinary allowances for attendance issues as a means of self preservation. It had a demoralizing effect on the entire campus.
In my head I keep seeing some award like my third grader gets with a big 'platinum' star on it if we get that status. Obviously we have to print it at home on our own printer. Toner and all!
26343, they dumped all the instructors they could for now. But it's possible it's their way of PIP-ing us to weed out the bad instructors, of which there seems to be many. In one email, our Dean Outreached us to remind us what was due and what it takes to be a platinum professor. It was week 2 or 3 and he was discussing all the excuses (he spun it lightly) for why instructors hadn't done Outreach. They are hounding us and watching us, that's for sure. I do everything aim asked. I'm not a child or a student. I do not need to be reminded.
Makes me wonder if this whole "Platinum Professor" initiative is a way for them to start whittling away at FTF. It kind of makes sense, actually.
PIP is bad right now.
Anonymous26306: I've noticed an uptick in PIPs (I think, obviously people don't broadcast them) in Tampa. With CCi that generally means firing. I've seen them do that in waves in the past, probably just to save money.
Start doing PIPs? Been doing PIPs. And not just dead weight but "overpaid" weight. They can get 2 for 1 in this market with some reps salary. I think I just spoke to my replacement.
I made it thru a pip last yr. It wasn't easy, but I've been told I'm a good rep. Big thing is there is no money left. I hope you get a severance, but I just don't see where it would come from, or given CCis gratuitous nature, why they would even if they had $. So I'll say odds are 1/20 or 5%.
Performance Improvement Plan....aka - the kiss of death
Sorry, but I have never heard this term. What's a PIP?
They're more likely to start doing PIPs to fire the dead weight now. But if they do layoffs, they don't have to pay severance. Do layoffs, then tank. That's more likely. You're better off spending your time looking for a job than hoping for a happy ending. Tu will not get one.
Anything's possible. Ask your manager. Then understand that nobody knows.
Troll.
There's no sake. No. Likely no money for severances.