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Re: Ashford University- 1st class
Posted by Truth on 1/09/08


    Sean,

    The people that are called from the admission advisors are people
    who put in a request for information from Ashford. Either via
    direct from the AU website, or through another online education
    inquiry. Boiler room is quite extreme to describe the work
    enviornment at the corportate office for AU. The office building is
    very well kept up, contemporary, with plenty of space for each
    individual. Recently (2006) AU met with the HLC (Higher Learning
    Commission) to get approved for further accredidation. When a
    school is approved for accredidation the HLC will give a timeframe
    in which they need to come back to re-evaluate. This timeframe can
    be anywhere from 2 years (very bad) or beyond 10 years (very good).
    The HLC after meeting with advisors,executive staff, and going over
    AU'S curriculum agreed to meet again with AU in 10 years to discuss
    further accredidation. This is direct proof that the HLC, along
    with the Dept of Ed respect, and honor AU. A person cant buy a
    company along with buying accredidation and expect the school to
    last through the evaluations. AU is doing something right to be
    Regionally accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges
    and Schools. You were probably horrible at your job, and that is
    why you left. Also, i would recommend looking at the retention
    numbers, as well as grad rates. Dont taint other peoples idea of
    recieving a quality education by your bad experience as a bad employee.

    On 12/06/07, Sean wrote:
    > Sorry for anyone who enrolls with Ashford University. It's all a
    > scam, they found a loop hole to get there accredidation. A few
    > fomer UoP guys went out and purchased an ALREADY accredited
    > University in Iowa and slapped Ashford on it and BAM all of
    > there online programs are accredited now. Trust me, I worked
    > for this company for 8 months and could barely sleep at night
    > knowing that they were lying to everyone. The best example of
    > how bad this school is, everyone in my department had to have a
    > BA degree, which they all obtained at a real University(like
    > actually went to class) We were all offered free Masters degrees
    > while we were working there, and guess what, none of us accepted
    > this benefit because we didn't want an Ashford degree to taint
    > our real degrees. In order to complete necessary training at
    > Ashford we all had to enroll in a class so we could see what the
    > classes were like. We all laughed!!!! I am sorry if I am being
    > a little harsh, but the reallity is that the CEO found a great
    > business plan when starting this company, he bought his
    > accredidation which followed with government Financial Aid. He
    > cleared nearly 900 million dollars last year, how can the
    > government let this happen? I worked in California while the
    > School was located in Iowa, I never even saw a student. They
    > had 4 floors of telemarketers that are given lists daily to cold
    > call on and try to talk unsuspecting people to enroll in
    > school. If you have ever seen the movie Boiler Room, you can
    > kind of get the idea. I actually started as an Enrollment
    > Advisor(Telemarketer), which didn;t last long because I couldn't
    > lie to people who didn't know any better. My "enrollment
    > manager"(Crook) told me, "it's O.K. to lie to these people, we
    > are helping them." Man he must of thought I was an idiot, They
    > aren't helping anyone, they are miliking innocent people out of
    > $40,000 for an education that won't impress any company, unless
    > you work for an "online school".
    >
    > I warn anyone who thinks this is a good idea, I have seen all of
    > their skeletons and it is really sad to see how people can trick
    > others out of money they just can't afford
    >
    >
    > On 10/28/07, emmy wrote:
    >> On 10/25/07, Bill wrote:
    >>> Sounds like you've been lied to. I've been there with this
    >>> school. They say what they need to so you'll enroll but
    >>> leave out critical info.
    >>>
    >>> *Sigh* I guess they'll never change.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> =============================
    >>> On 10/22/07, Cynthia wrote:
    >>>> I'm taking classes online at Ashford Univ. I was told by
    >>>> my enrollment advisor that my 1st class was covered by a
    >>>> grant? Financial Aid told me, that's not correct. Has
    >>>> anyone had an experience like this one?
    >>
    >>
    >> Sounds like the enrollment advisor was incompetent, not the
    >> school.


 

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