A once great institution destroyed by private equity - Senior Product Owner Western Governors University Employee Review

Executive leadership has an insatiable craving for ever-increasing profits, and it has moved us to a diploma mill type model, where metrics on enrollments and graduates are more important than ensuring students are ready for the job market. Our CEO integrated private equity ownership into the institution, and all dips in related revenue get transferred directly to WGU employees, in the form of punishment (layoffs and lack of promotion) or erratic decision-making (RTO for an online-centric company). RTO has made it impossible to perform many company operations, as individual teams will look completely different month-to-month. We have needlessly lost multiple folks with disabilities because the company will not be flexible when it comes to accommodating those parties. Corporate vibes are very prevalent. AI-written leadership principles (they literally fail multiple screening tests) are made by leaders who exhibit behavior entirely contradictory to those principles. They even go through the trouble of mailing a physical copy of these corporate terms to our personal households so we can share them with our families.