Apollo Group and UOP is destine for a total implosion. Between the utterly moronic middle management, criminal leadership, idiotic, dysfunctional , unorganized IT/IS teams. Its just a matter of time before the whole f_cking thing just collapses under its own weight. I would get as far away as possible before it happens...
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I wonder if Spermling gave his shriveled prick to ol' Nancy? As for what Apollo Education does abroad, I couldn't give a fig. My guess is that, in the wake of yesterday's resounding rebuff of Obama and the direction he's steered the country, the boiler room buffoons will slide back to their more overt, predatory ways--in an effort to bolster enrollment rolls. For-profit schools are bailing water from sinking ships and no matter how big the bucket, all of them will continue sinking for years to come. I feel sorry for all of the people who earned an undergraduate degree from one of these joke schools as employers won't hire them for the better paying jobs. Finally, UOP will likely layoff 800 to 1000 a year as enrollments decline. There is no end on site of this bleeding, and for this I am stoked.
The University of Phoenix implosion is a slow-motion version that may take years to unwind. There is no guarantee that it will crash because the level of corruption in DC is so huge. Apollo Group has, for years, paid off many of the key politicians it needed to, both at the federal and state level. This goes back to the long-standing relationship between Nancy Pelosi and John Sperling (see Suzanne Mettler's book "Degrees of Inequality"). Apollo Group also understood how to maximize enrollment even as its quality and brand declined. They bought off Al Sharpton, for example, by promoting "Education Nation." Celebrity finance guru Suze Ormann has been another Phoenix shill. Apollo Group also has given jobs to key bureaucrats--people like Margaret Spellings (Former Secretary of Education under Bush II) and Jane Oates (former Kennedy and Corzine staffer and head of the Obama Workforce Investment Board). Apollo Group has also, over the years, figured out that there is money to be made in nations where they can pay off the right people: in Latin America and the UK for example. Even academics like Eric Best have said that UoP was "too big to fail." I would argue that as UoP becomes more predatory and less concerned about its workers and students, that UoP is not only big enough to fail, but also "big enough to jail."
Not entirely, but it will have fewer than 90K students by the end of 2016. Thousands will lose their jobs...as they should. Bwahahahahaha.