WGU Layoffs

[JusticeNamaste]

Hello to All,

Firstly, let me begin by assuring everyone that I am NOT a troll although I did enjoy the movie

Everything that I have written is true, according to my former course instructor.  How much of what this person said is true, I do not know and I would hazard to caution: nor does anyone.  People do and say things all the time - does it make true/valid? Maybe. Sometimes.

And maybe not.

Here is what I DO know (and this information is readily available to anyone with an inclination to research).  The current president of the university is a former VP at Amazon.  Why is this important? Because, first and foremost, a university chose to hire someone who has no understanding of higher education - what IS understood is business.  Is this necessarily a "bad" thing? Well - again, Amazon is unfortunately rather notorious for NOT treating its employees well at all; and most recently, an attempt to unionize by Amazon workers was quashed  - how is this germane to this particular thread? Hmm -  maybe connect the dots - meaning, quite simply this:

When a university president is hired from a company that has a very negative reputation for how it treats the employees who work for said company, one can see why WGU is very much on the precipice of becoming a "diploma mill" and so the callous disregard for how it treats their employees becomes much easier to understand.  It's been interesting to me in reading all these comments that no one seems to suggest something that could have actually negated the bad publicity from what occurred with the recent layoffs.

It's quite simple and if WGU had wise counsel and a good PR person they might have suggested this instead: have the upper senior level management volunteer to take pay cuts so the layoffs do not have to happen.  As another poster made mention of, if there is no physical campus that students must attend then why the million dollar plus salary for those such as Mr. Pulsipher and the others?

"Follow the money" as they say.

I also wonder how many posters on here are aware that a few years ago WGU was audited by the Office of the Inspector General:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019...gs-western

I still believe with my whole heart, that at its core, this school is a scam.  It's just dressed up rather nicely, that's all.  If other students are helped in their professional careers by WGU, then that is wonderful (for them); however, that does not mean that WGU is not a diploma mill.  They are a bloated institution that basically is running a con and so far, it's working.

https://www.bbb.org/us/ut/salt-lake-city...66-4001017


Just to redress the notion that I am somehow a "troll" here are both positive and negative reviews by students, for WGU:

https://www.gradreports.com/colleges/wes...university

Bottom Line: it's a choice, like everything else in life.  Make of it what you will.  Beware though: "A wolf in sheep's clothing"

I find the timing of your account creation and the location of your first post to be very suspect. Almost as if someone already on this site decided to create a new account on a whim to argue these accusations and then run away. Note to Admins: Check the IP addresses to confirm this is not an existing member of this site who has made multiple profiles. Sure, a proxy or and other obfuscations tactics could be at play, but let's make sure at least that obvious evidence is not going unchecked.

Well, goodness! I'm very glad to know that conspiracy theories are still well and alive! I can assure you (as can the moderator apparently, below,  who has checked my IP address - thank you so much for that, by the way, it's nice to know that "1984" was not just a book by George Orwell).  Look, I'm not trying to change anyone's minds, nor am I a bot, but rather quite simply this: I am a concerned student who has invested time and money that I am now seriously beginning to question and - last time I checked - we still have freedom of speech in this country and I'm just expressing my own thoughts/views/perspectives - that is all

I do find it interesting that so  many individuals here are so quick to jump into the fray and accuse me of various things but I understand: it's scary to be confronted with a different idea, and especially one that does not adhere to certain beliefs.  That is just normal human nature.  Sometimes, in life, people can just have a feeling that something is not quite right - it's not an evidenced based belief that, were it to be presented in a court of law anything that would stand up to scrutiny but what it IS a "gut instinct" of sorts.

Meaning just this: I can't explain in a quantifiable way "why" I feel that WGU is a scam school, rather, it's based on an internal radar of sorts - we all have it - and often, we don't always listen to it when perhaps we should.  So, that was my goal in posting both on here and on Reddit as well - to just make mention of my own concerns about various things and see if anyone else felt the same way.  Obviously, I was incorrect in my thinking that perhaps others might want to engage in a respectful manner.  I will gladly remove my profile on here in 24 hours and will abscond into the tangled web of wires and technology.  I wish everyone the very best