Anyone have any highlights?

Whose got a meeting on their calendar from their HRBP? Let's hear about your layoff story b/c misery loves company!

2U partners with a media company called Red Ventures to put ads on websites that seem like legit sources for researching schools but are really just websites for advertising 2U programs that have nothing to do with rankings or any actual... — read more 

What kind of loans are bootcampers taking out?

I’ve been in SE for years and it’s never been this bad. What Directors and VPs actually do is completely foreign to us - we interact with and engage hundreds of students a day, and we make a third of their salary. SE has a direct impact on the... — read more 

Former 2U/edX employee here, and our (university branded) bootcamps are an absolute joke. Here’s an inside look at how things operate on our end & how screwed up things are. I recently quit after working for 2U for over 2 years as an “admissions... — read more 

I've posted before and my warnings have been right. It's bad. Get out. Now. The company has lost 90%+ of it's share value over the last 5 years. The company lost 62%+ of it's share value in 2023 alone. There is no viable business model here. The... — read more 

Publicly traded ed tech company stock tanks for five years, down 97% since 2018 and 80% since going public, with multiple rounds of layoffs but no meaningful changes to the C-suite??? Where's the Board of Directors? Where are the investors... — read more 

With all the talk surrounding stock price this, value that, I'm curious if any current employees see themselves here for the long haul. I know things are very siloed and different departments see things through different lenses so I'd like to hear... — read more 

"2U has limited cash and a troublesome pile of debt, which makes its cash burn worrying." https://seekingalpha.com/article/4628147-2u-enrollment-is-shrinking

Pearson and Wiley out. https://onedtech.beehiiv.com/p/shocking-but-not-shocking

https://www.republicreport.org/2023/feds-issue-warning-colleges-cant-silence-whistleblowers/

From Coursera... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/2u-shares-rise-7-8-company-appoints-mccullough-as-product-chief-a255cef1

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66126095

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/product-liability-and-toxics-law/usc-must-face-online-students-suit-alleging-fraudulent-ranking TBD for 2U

It looks like 2U is back at it with the demotions and gaslighting. To those affected, I strongly encourage you to seek legal advice. What 2U is doing is not only ethically questionable but also illegal. If you find yourself in a similar situation... — read more 

The direction we are going. https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2023/06/a-peoples-history-of-higher-education.html

https://boards.greenhouse.io/2u

Good ol' JL gets a vote of confidence. https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001459417/000119312523164428/d671863d8k.htm

https://www.businessinsider.com/student-debt-crisis-online-college-universities-class-providers-opms-2023-6

Tons of government money to fill the 2U trough, now being questioned. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31291

For-profit Online Program Managers (OPMs) like Academic Partnerships and 2U recruit students for regional and elite state universities and private schools--hoping to profit from the growth of online education. But learning outcomes, completion rates... — read more 

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2023/06/01/morehouse-college-online-program-falls-short/70225028007/

Managers and directors are a bunch of young people who lack experience and do not know how to manage people or run programs. Many of them have superiority complexes and/or are sheep who follow orders from other incompetent people. All they actually... — read more 

Company is flooded with lazy people. Hours or days without chat or email responses. Are people working? Unprofessional and pathetic.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4603853-2u-problems-multiplying “All in all, the situation is not trending in 2U's favor. Steer clear here and watch the company's implosion from the sidelines, and resist the temptation to catch a falling kn--e.” — read more 

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2023/05/opm-market-landscape-and-dynamics.html

I’ve read news on how analysts are valuing 2U. One outlet acknowledges that investors may push for additional change by this summer. If you take a look at the stock price and layoffs, there’s a clear trend when and why layoffs occur. Chegg bounced... — read more 

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/USCComplaint.pdf https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawsuit-says-university-of-southern-california-used-misleading-practices-to-sell-online-social-work-degree-6545ded9?mod=e2tw

"However, despite US$7 trillion being spent on the education market worldwide, there are no major global edtech companies, even though 2U is... — read more 

https://triumpheducation.com/team/

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-08-05-what-a-new-strategy-at-2u-means-for-the-future-of-online-higher-education

How much longer can 2U survive? 5 years?

For more than a decade: COCO, ESI (ITT Tech), EDMC (Argosy, Art Institutes), DV, APOL (University of Phoenix), LAUR (Walden University), Dream Center. 2U is in that same process...of degeneration. Can it hang on? Yes. Do you want to be associated... — read more 

It is time for Chip to step down. The board needs to take action. This so called rocket ship is going to be another Challenger.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jason-wingards-edtech-griftopia/

And with a zoom into 2U. https://philhillaa.com/onedtech/opm-market-landscape-and-dynamics-spring-2023-updates/#comment-3576

More PHD*? https://www.asugsvsummit.com/

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2023/04/edtech-meltdown-grows-beyond-silicon.html