American Public University System Reviews

Cons

Company is failing. Layoffs for longer term employees are happening in droves. No creative ideas, completely risk adverse, constantly flirting with violating the Title IV 90-10 rule which requires at least 10% of their tuition come from non-federal sources. Constantly retaining consultants who are friends of C-suite or Board Members. Once an honorable online college choice for military and public service but shift to sales-focused enrollment targets has completely changed them. They are "all about he Benjamins." Toxic environment in which speaking out results in being laid-off. If you want to compromise your integrity, keep your mouth shut and be blindly led into failure, this is the place for you.

Cons

There are no cons that I can think of.

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You are chained to your computer like an electronic sweatshop

Cons

Raises, The Future of the Company

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Some management can be archaic in their thinking. Need to step outside of the box now and then. Need younger board members to help drive the company to the next level and keep up with demands.

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Log in requirements for classes. Can not be away from the classroom more than a day. So if you have classes back to back, you can go months without two days off. Pay has not changed in over a deaded and the leadership does not address it.

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Several managers by their own admission are not gainfully employed and therefore have not been properly educated for their current positions. It's important for mangers to have actually studied management because there's a science to it that just cannot be completely utilized without the formal education.

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Poor management, no people skills, They think everybody is skilled to do everything but instead junior people are in manager positions. Organization is oppressive.

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In less than a year this place went from an amazing company to work for with great values and inclusive culture to a heaping dumpster fire. I always thought APUS would be immune to the corporate culture of trying to force long-term employees out to hire cheaper, newer labor willing to work worse hours but here we are today and that's exactly what has been happening.

This place has become a revolving door of people coming, staying for 3-6 months and realizing it sucks, then leaving once they find a better job with normal hours. The few long-term people who have been here for more than a couple years are also leaving because more work and expectations are being dumped on them. Managers have dozens of people on their teams and are overworked as well. We lost a ton of people in the last year due to multiple circumstances so everyone left is expected to just make sacrifices because they either won't or can't hire people to fill in the places. People tend to make it to the job interviews, find out what the position requires, then run screaming out the door. The only ones willing to take the jobs and shifts are kids fresh out of college who need the resume experience.

There were rumors that certain CEOs were trying to kill off most of the company so that it could be bought out by a bigger name for-profit college system. I didn't want to believe it, but that's the only logic I can see behind all these changes outside of just a flat out drive for money at the expense of experienced employees that know the educational policies.

Unless upper management does something quick, this place is just going to keep up this rapid death spiral and end up as a penny-stock begging for scraps from some bigger company to buy it out and try to salvage at least some of what was originally built by the founding presidents and deans. What a disgrace. They're really trying to highlight the 'for-profit' aspect of what should be a respected institute of higher education that prioritizes student success over squeezing every last dollar out of everyone by running the place as ramshackle as possible to keep overhead costs low and profits for shareholders high.

Oh, and don't expect any sort of upward movement in terms of positions or promotions. Anything like that is a rarity, and if they do post a position they already know who they want so good luck with that.

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Treats employees like children