If anyone were to really go back and try to pinpoint the beginning of the end, when would it be? 1995? Was it when they went public in 1999? Was it from the acquisition of the following: American Motorcycle Institute, Ashmead College, Blair College, Bryman College, Bryman Institute, Duff's Business Institute, Florida Metropolitan University, Georgia Medical Institute, Kee Business College, Las Vegas College, National Institute of Technology, National School of Technology, Olympia Career Training Institute, Olympia College, Parks College, Rochester Business Institute, Tampa College, and Western Business College? It's a shame that good people have been lumped into this mess just because they are/were employed by CCI and it's subsidiaries, you know who you are!
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BTW, the OP is a troll. Insiders would have a different take on the history of the company (see 35728's post below) and everything in the OP is straight from Wikipedia.
I've been here for awhile now and honestly I think it was a slide ever since JM started. It took some time to really start seeing the impact, but he brought in a very different philosophy and deeply changed the company culture. For example, he likes hiring from out of the industry, because he felt that educators and educational administrators "don't get" that a company is about making money. Regulations became a burden to get around by these new managers, or even "optional" as I've actually heard on more than one occasion (and I'm in SF). HR became aggressive toward employees, functions were quantified, and many operation were combined into sweatshop style call center. Efficient and effective at making money, with no regard to employees' or students' well beings. We're in a service industry, and smart managers know that to have happy customers you have to have happy employees. JM's philosophy was to rip off the student to the greatest degree possible and bully the employees with threats. There was nowhere it could go but down.
I like 508's response. I guess if you are apathetic to it, you are part of the problem.
35510 - if you are still at CCI, you don't have a career! Maybe look for those red flags before you sign on for your next adventure.
I'm not a troll. I literally do not care. I care about my future and my career. The past is just that. We can't go back and change it, so why bother having a conversation about it? That will NOT change the future. So, you don't need to lecture me about how important your silly crap is.
To the "naysayers" and trolls, this is actually a decent post. Learn from history or be bound to repeat it. CCI may not exist in the near future, but was it their exponential growth, was it doomed from the start, or was it when they opened the doors to Wall Street? Others could learn to not make the same mistakes. All schools are for-profit, otherwise they wouldn't exist, regardless of their "profit" status. I personally think it was 1999 when Wall Street stepped in. At that point, all that mattered was that big profits drive the rollercoaster.
Linden? Can I buy a vowel? How about a Y?
I blame Linden B Johnson's administration.
It was the snobs at Heald that did us in!
Who cares.
What difference does it make? Dissecting a faith company is really the least of my concerns right now.