07-19-2021, 02:53 PM
Al you have to do is go to Glassdoor.com and read the reviews of WGU to know it's steadily declining:
Turning education into an ego fueled, tyrant worshipping cult
Jul 13, 2021 - Program Mentor
Pros
It’s still built on the foundation put in place by better people.
Cons
Where to begin…
Our president gladly and publicly takes victory laps for any win. Conversely, he manages to avoid any responsibility for failure. Failure, of course, being something we see a lot of recently.
WGU *used* to have the goal of becoming a great place to work. The most recent surveys removed any ability to provide feedback for anyone at the executive level. It’s nice working somewhere that holds me accountable for a student’s experience outside of my direct interaction, but then keeps me from passing that feedback along.
Additionally, WGU is hiring VPs like they’re going out of style. 1/4 of business mentors were fired, but we still need to hire people who muck up our processes, defer blame and never have meaningful interactions. Our president also made a comment about our biggest problem being the need to hire more executives to meet demand….demand *he* placed on us.
Every day is a new exercise in navigating IT issues, students manipulated into attending, cutbacks, changed degree programs and virtue signaling.
You can see in the other reviews the massive firings that occurred. Scott emails his opinions on every social and political issue. This is wrong for a number of reasons. How come he’s been silent on the firings?
Advice to Management
What does it matter. They only listen to the flatterers. WGU needs to collapse and be reset by true educators, not petty individuals with fragile egos. Stop with the politics.
Turning education into an ego fueled, tyrant worshipping cult
Jul 13, 2021 - Program Mentor
Pros
It’s still built on the foundation put in place by better people.
Cons
Where to begin…
Our president gladly and publicly takes victory laps for any win. Conversely, he manages to avoid any responsibility for failure. Failure, of course, being something we see a lot of recently.
WGU *used* to have the goal of becoming a great place to work. The most recent surveys removed any ability to provide feedback for anyone at the executive level. It’s nice working somewhere that holds me accountable for a student’s experience outside of my direct interaction, but then keeps me from passing that feedback along.
Additionally, WGU is hiring VPs like they’re going out of style. 1/4 of business mentors were fired, but we still need to hire people who muck up our processes, defer blame and never have meaningful interactions. Our president also made a comment about our biggest problem being the need to hire more executives to meet demand….demand *he* placed on us.
Every day is a new exercise in navigating IT issues, students manipulated into attending, cutbacks, changed degree programs and virtue signaling.
You can see in the other reviews the massive firings that occurred. Scott emails his opinions on every social and political issue. This is wrong for a number of reasons. How come he’s been silent on the firings?
Advice to Management
What does it matter. They only listen to the flatterers. WGU needs to collapse and be reset by true educators, not petty individuals with fragile egos. Stop with the politics.
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