American Public University System Reviews

Pros

Adapt new technology relatively quicker than other organizations I worked with. Plenty of room of growth. Free degree program for Full Time Employees.

Pros

Students are fabulous, and I love the courses I teach. I'm happy with my medical benefits.

Advice to Management

Stop burning out your best faculty members with this onerous workload. At the very least, give us a weekend every once in a while and Christmas break.

Pros

I really liked my job. I was an Adjunct Instructor, full time, so I had benefits. The pay was not great but being able to work from home outweighed the low pay.

Advice to Management

Treat your instructors well. You had some awesome teachers and let 40 of them go. You should have done more to find jobs for them in APUS since many had been working for APUS for years and were very loyal.

Pros

Hard to find something

Advice to Management

You need to go to training how to manage professors and staff. Every place I talk has same issue. Depression depression.

Pros

Nothing that I can think of now.. because no one knows what’s happening..

Advice to Management

Stop spending money on these expensive CTO, VP’s , directors.. if you cannot keep your employees happy with basic wants then you won’t see motivated employees.

Pros

Location is on the outskirts of the commutable DC metro area

Advice to Management

Increase wages, stop increasing health insurance rates every year - between cost of living adjustments and health insurance rates, your employees are making less money every year while senior management and above receives larger increases and free company stock.

Pros

Not enough to overcome the cons.

Advice to Management

They don’t like to listen to or take advice.

Pros

You can teach online.

Advice to Management

Take a look at the workload.

Pros

Loved the atmosphere of the company

Advice to Management

Communication

Pros

I'm trying to think of Pros that haven't been mentioned by others already yet, but I'll probably still end up echoing them anyway - sure, there is a great, solid benefits package, 401k, free tuition, remote work from home (a huge plus to be able to sleep in until right before work starts) etc. But this is also hands-down the best management and work environment I've been in - great bosses and great coworkers. They take ethics seriously here at APUS, too (which is something that couldn't be said for my previous employer, the one I worked for before coming to APUS.)

The work I do in my job is also fair, assessed fairly, not too stressful, and predictable enough that I don't have to worry about what I'll be doing the next day. It can be boring, but it's steady, calm, and not difficult. A great job for someone who likes stable security and low stress.

Management is also willing to think long-term. By implementing a new technological system one year, they were able to gradually reap huge benefits and greatly streamline work a year or two later (and for many years to come.) Made our jobs perhaps 15% easier.

If it weren't for the job location (management has become more restrictive about remote-work locations), I would want to work here my entire career, for decades, until the day I retired.

Advice to Management

Give salary raises of 3-4% instead of just 2% annually. Doing away with the bonuses was OK, but 2% is too little.

Stop spending money on unnecessary things. Don't be penny wise but pound foolish. And reduce the tuition rate back down to the GI Bill-reimbursed level, not a penny more. That was bad for student enrollment.

And although I'm not an adjunct professor, the adjunct profs should be paid more.

Other than that, you're doing great; this is still an A- workplace to be; a B+ at the very least.