Virginia College Employee Reviews about "virginia college"

Pros

Virginia College is full of professional students, staff and colleagues. There is plenty of room for growth and opportunity from within and abroad the college itself.

Cons

Because of the nature of Virginia College being a school there is a strict adherence to proper dress and mannerism.

Pros

Virginia College has granted me the opportunity to teach my initial college class. I know I am an excellent teacher and I appreciate the opportunity.

Cons

None at this time. I must get used to the process of teaching.

Pros

Great Management and some really great people work here! Not micro-managed you get to work how you want (within the rules)

Cons

You make roughly 100 calls in a day and 90% of these people requested info online while looking for work and have no interest in school that is if they even answer. I have made 150 calls in one day and not a single person answered and these are manual dials btw. The leads they give you aren't enough to make your numbers It's not legal for Virginia College to pay commission so it's just your base. It's not a terrible base, but still for the amount of effort required to make your numbers here you could easily make more money in an Account Manager job.

Pros

It's relatively easy to get hired due to minimal standards The curriculum is laid out for you

Cons

Virginia College is a predatory organization that seeks low income, uneducated people to take money from. VC actively seeks out wildly unqualified students to maximize profit. Students are called 'customers' by management. Nobody should be able to purchase a certificate to say they are educated without earning it. Management will do anything to keep 'customers' coming in in order to maximize profit. As an instructor I was told to skip over anything they find difficult because 'the customer is always right.' When students disagreed with me they ran to tattle to my bosses. My offenses included slowing the class down when nobody understood what was going on, sitting in a chair (VC demands standing) because I couldn't type on the computer while standing, and my cell phone being visible when turned off and on my desk because I took everything out of my pockets before class began. These offenses landed me in my supervisors' office. The students are around 30 in average age and are immature, trashy, and lazy. VC preys on the bottom of the barrel because they want desperate students who dream of a better life giving away their money. The Knoxville campus management is manipulative and horrible. If burning you alive means five dollars more in their next paycheck, VC management will demand you provide the kerosene. Management seems friendly when you're hired on, but after that they turn into monsters. All school problems are blamed on instructors. Failing students? Instructors fault. Students won't do the homework? Instructors fault. Students re-evaluating the insane level of debt they'll receive for the subpar education? Instructors fault. Management uses instructors as scapegoats to explain their own failings to potential students and their corporate bosses. Virginia College is a sad cardboard backdrop propped up for the cameras. They already have the product: a flimsy, false education. Employees are the packing peanuts they throw in the box. I was asked to rig grades to help keep federal funding coming and maintain accreditation. I resigned rather than become a crook. This place steals from students and cheats them. They try to beat down anybody who fights that. There is a wonderful article in the New York Times about the government investigating for profit colleges. One of the bigger subsidiaries of ECA is already on the list. This one is coming up soon.

Pros

Easy job, great atmosphere, lots of room for advancement

Cons

None. Virginia College is great place to work.

Pros

Virginia College (owned by ECA (Education Corporation of America) overall is a very fair employer in terms of zero tolerance against racisim; so far in two years of employment I have not experienced any reverse or forward discrimination; nor any inappropriate focus on religion as can seem to happen in the Southern work force. I enjoy helping people learn; and I do love my field; these are the primary reasons I accepted the job.

Cons

There is however a preponderance of industrial based policy making; no doubt driven by a "Soft Drink" imported top management team. ECA is therefore more profit driven then other higher learning institutions such as community colleges or non-profit colleges and universities. However, I would say in many instances this focus on profit does bring a focus back on the customer (in this case the student) so that satisfaction is ensured. The mandatory company goal of exceeding it's accreditor's 60% compliance metric in employment placement to instead focus on a goal of meeting a 72% placement rate, definitely operates as a check and balance that the customer (student) is getting what they're paying out the nose for. As well as ensures complete and total burnout of their underpaid Career Services and Academic adjunct teaching staff. Ah, the nature of "for profit learning"- what a beast...gotta love it.