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Aug 4, 2008
2008-08-04 05:54 PDT
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UTI – “UTI Smoke and Mirrors”
4 of 5 people found this helpfulPros
I love to teach!!!! Helping others to learn a trade is very rewarding( those that choose to learn)
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Management displays constant unprofessional behavior towards instructors. I was employed for a number of years, because I believed in the training courses they used. Then it all changed when they changed the curriculum to make more money. They kept raising the tuition, and doing less as far as hands on training.
The students evaluated each instructor after each class, and, when the kids were upset about the training
the took it out on the instructor! Then, we would be called in for a conference about the bad job we did!!!!
They also began to use less and less disipline to correct bad behavior( 18 to 24 year olds) Some were a joy to teach, but with no consequences for their actions, some did not care.Made for some very long days.
The CEO makes upwards of half a million salary, plus benefits, but the employees have to fight to get maybe 4 percent each year, and that is based on STUDENT EVALUATIONS
The icing on the cake was when they started to hire people with no automotive experience( this is an auto tech training school) to be managers and deciders of curriculum and training! Glad to be not there!!!!!!
None of your teaching skills can be used in any other public school, so you have to start over if you go to another school, not what you are told at UTI.
Advice to Senior Management
They will not use it, since they know it all!!!
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http://people.forbes.com/profile/kimberly-j-mcwaters/62689
They still complain of budget cuts and salary caps and so on, but as long as CEO gets a check, who cares..?
The older veteran instructors seem to refuse even the latest training or fight it at best. UTI claims that 4 out of 5 graduates work successfully in the automotive industry... Hardly true with the automotive industry in the worse shape it has been in ever! 4 out of 5 students can not even obtain a job in the industry...
I have even had the opportunity to travel the world doing automotive events. From NASCAR to World of Outlaws, NHRA, and SCCA, I have met thousands of UTI graduates. 9 out of 10 say that while they learned how to change parts, UTI gladly took their money, showed them basic repair procedures, showed them a sample resume and then showed them the door! No real training into automotive theory of function beyond changing parts. Disappointed is the NORM in first responses about UTI these days...
As for hiring new qualified instructors, they use an abbreviated physiological questionnaire that does not even test your aptitude to determine if you are worthy of another interview. They have figured out some sort of way to determine if you are a worthy instructor by 3-5 questions about how you would get along with others, how you would resolve a disagreement with a co-worker, and how you over came a temporary set back to please a customer...
This is why the industry is failing faster than it can recover! The wrong people making the wrong decisions...
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I have heard about the bully style of management at the Houston campus starting with the Director and down to the instructors. I have a friend that taught there and
left UTI to open his own business, and wanted to go back a few years later, only to be told he did not have enough experience!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay away, find a shop that has a training program in house, and learn on the job.
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