Excelsior College Reviews

Pros

Working environment is nice; the supervisor is helpful and is a nice person.

Pros

Nice people to work with, formal structure

Pros

Great mission serving adult learners.Their willingness to allow students to bring in credits earned elsewhere or by exam makes them one of the "Big Three" (+TESU and COSC) who get that adults need other options for getting their degrees.

The result of that mission is that you get amazing students--soldiers deployed overseas, teachers powering up on degrees for advancement, lifelong learners who have lived interesting lives and bring those experiences into the classroom.

The courses are canned but mostly well-designed and interesting.

Ability (for now) to buy into retirement plan

Support from faculty leads

Pros

This college has stayed true to its mission of serving adult learners close to 50 years. The stories we hear at commencement of how Excelsior College made it possible for these graduates to achieve their dreams is truly remarkable! The college has traditionally and employee friendly culture!

Advice to Management

Take care of your people! The College is great because of its employees! Do not forget to involve the key stakeholders in the decision making process, especially if it impacts them! Leadership needs to work hard at change management and maintaining employee engagement during these challenging times!

Pros

Mission Driven.
Good college for those underrepresented in higher education. Adults, minorities.
Flexible for students.

Advice to Management

Put the students first.

Pros

Great location, some great team members, good treatment of military students, good distance learning technology & delivery platforms

Advice to Management

What kind of leadership promotes persons into CxO level positions that several employees have described as “having no idea what they were doing” and have said “they don’t have the qualifications for that job”? The same kind of leadership that takes 6 months to a year to wake up to that fact that they really shouldn’t have promoted these folks and then have to remove these same folks from their leadership positions. Can you say “DuH!” In my opinion, it is indicative of leadership that is myopic at best and, more likely, in way over their heads and clueless as they could have listened to their employees and avoided these promotion fiasco situations from ever happening.

The current leadership must also now take responsibility for the current decline and stop “the blame game” blaming everything from the market to previous leaders to market saturation for their mismanagement – the buck needs to stop there & now. Many in the college have now caught onto the fact that this is a tactic to deflect criticism from the current (lost) leadership as the enrollments continue to decline, morale is currently very low and getting worse and many good people have been let go while some marginal performers were allowed to remain. You can only deflect your own 'cluelessness' for so long before people catch on that this can no longer be blamed on ‘things beyond your (supposed) control’ and this current administration is squarely responsible for the current and precipitous decline.

Who is ultimately to blame for all of this? I’d say ultimately is the responsibility of whoever selected the current leadership team and allows them to remain when it is apparent that past and current performance is not acceptable.

Pros

Most staffs are friendly and collaborative

Pros

None now. This used to be a great place to work. So much has changed. The company is being run into the ground.

Advice to Management

None now. The ship is sinking faster than the Titanic. I’d advise the employees left to look elsewhere as this is not the end of the layoffs. They laid off almost 100 a year and a half ago and now 45 more with numerous one offs in between.

Pros

Many of the staff are dedicated to the mission of the college and hard-working. They are supportive and a pleasure to work with.

Advice to Management

Do the hard working underlings at your college a service and pack up and leave! Stop providing our students with inferior educational opportunities that are only drawing lawsuits against the college for shoddy courses in nursing.

Pros

Some articulate advisors, but they seemed to always advise another degree

Advice to Management

Misuse of student generated funds
has finally become obvious.