Dear newspaper editor:
There’s no real story here. Everest is collapsing due to false promises on a poor degree, bad admissions and pressuring instructors to pass people through. The recent requirement for instructors to start making “admissions” type calls to get students to participate and bring their grade up, is nothing more than a veiled way to force adjuncts to fake the grades. If we fake the grades, we waste less of our personal time and call less. The pressure to email and call is recent, it just started early this year and keeps racketing up, It is to retain, retain, retain, even if the student should not be retained. We all know that if we don’t make these worthless calls, bump fake grades, you will not get classes next quarter. It used to not be this way. I was thrilled years ago teaching here, the AD’s and PD’s didn’t care if you flunked someone who deserved it and you could encourage students in your own creative ways. You could truly work with students as it should be. A few bad professors and an increasing bad pool of students’ foretold the demise. The bad trail began when the pool of students decreased and Everest went after the real dregs of society that just want to rip off the government for more money. The students run about 70-30. 30% seem to try and want to do well, some are not previously equipped and need to be brought up to speed, and some could make it at any college. The other 70% are either fake, really shouldn’t be at any college or are just doing it for the money to live on. Everest signs anyone, even if they don’t even have computer skills enough to do the work. Everest gets paid, the student gets paid, the taxpayers get screwed .
The only answer is to reduce the “little chiefs” (PD’s are worthless) and the adjunct professor s, along with better screening in admissions. Shrink the school and make it streamline and demand quality education. Maybe a name change is in order. Stop hiring English, public administration, sociology, etc, etc., majors and only hire those doing the job. Too many PHD’s just for the sake of having them , regardless of what field it’s in. Doing the real job is what private schools have to offer, Everest needs to figure that out again and get back to the basics if they are going to survive. I used to work with many adjuncts that did the actual job. Now my PD has never done the actual field I teach in, most adjuncts have crazy degrees and never did the work. Doing the real work in real life is way more important that the degree and whether it’s a PHD or ?