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catscradle Feb. 6th, 2006 02:32 pm)
catscradle Feb. 6th, 2006 02:32 pm)I've officially started a new job search. Yeah, I know I said I totally loved the job before, but the more I work here, the more I feel like I'm part of the Evil Empire. Little by little I'm learning more and more things that just make me ill and keep me up at night. All those stupid ass things that coorporations do that prove they're totally out of touch with the people they claim to serve - yeah, like every day I find two more of them.
For instance, for the first two weeks of the current quarter I am to keep all the students from dropping classes - tell them that they're not allowed to do it as they're schedules were confirmed as of the 11th week of the last quarter. This is not legally true. The students have until the end of Monday of the second week to drop a class without being charged for it. But I'm to apply pressure so they keep all their classes. Now I'm all okay with letting them know that by dropping classes they push back their graduation dates, as some students have a habit of dropping each quarter and then getting all flustered that they're not going to graduate in three years. But pressuring them to stay in a class? Especially since we don't seem to give a rat's ass if they drop the class after the refund date has passed. Ethics? Hello?
The bottom line, of course, is to get the money now while we can, because the student might not last till graduation. Of course forcing a student to take more classes than they can handle so that they do poorly in all of them, rather than drop one so they can keep their overall GPA up - well it never occurs to corporate that if the students took less classes and did well, they might have more incentive to stick in the program even if it takes them a little longer to do it.
I feel as though we're setting a good deal of these students up to fail, and yeah, that keeps me up at night. I don't pressure the kids. And it's going to catch up with me one day when they start noticing that I have a higher drop rate per class. I tell the students the score in terms of how dropping the class affects them, then I leave it up to them. Interesting though, I have the highest rate of overall persistence for my program. My kids tend to stick it out for the long haul, even if they take fewer classes. Considering that they still take the same amount of classes AND that means the students are paying more because of yearly tuition hikes, not to mention my students have a higher rate to completing programs rather than dropping out because they can't handle the pressure - I make more money for the school. Funny that.
That's just the worst of a number of things that bother me. So, on I look for a new job... First search took me 1 1/2 years, here's hoping that the Master's is good for a speedier search this time.
For instance, for the first two weeks of the current quarter I am to keep all the students from dropping classes - tell them that they're not allowed to do it as they're schedules were confirmed as of the 11th week of the last quarter. This is not legally true. The students have until the end of Monday of the second week to drop a class without being charged for it. But I'm to apply pressure so they keep all their classes. Now I'm all okay with letting them know that by dropping classes they push back their graduation dates, as some students have a habit of dropping each quarter and then getting all flustered that they're not going to graduate in three years. But pressuring them to stay in a class? Especially since we don't seem to give a rat's ass if they drop the class after the refund date has passed. Ethics? Hello?
The bottom line, of course, is to get the money now while we can, because the student might not last till graduation. Of course forcing a student to take more classes than they can handle so that they do poorly in all of them, rather than drop one so they can keep their overall GPA up - well it never occurs to corporate that if the students took less classes and did well, they might have more incentive to stick in the program even if it takes them a little longer to do it.
I feel as though we're setting a good deal of these students up to fail, and yeah, that keeps me up at night. I don't pressure the kids. And it's going to catch up with me one day when they start noticing that I have a higher drop rate per class. I tell the students the score in terms of how dropping the class affects them, then I leave it up to them. Interesting though, I have the highest rate of overall persistence for my program. My kids tend to stick it out for the long haul, even if they take fewer classes. Considering that they still take the same amount of classes AND that means the students are paying more because of yearly tuition hikes, not to mention my students have a higher rate to completing programs rather than dropping out because they can't handle the pressure - I make more money for the school. Funny that.
That's just the worst of a number of things that bother me. So, on I look for a new job... First search took me 1 1/2 years, here's hoping that the Master's is good for a speedier search this time.
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