All departments seem to be impacted, rumored 188 employees cut.
Same as last year, blindsided zoom meetings, they read you a script and jamf lock your laptop and ki-l your accounts the moment the meeting ends.
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Confirming this. Know multiple people let go in this round. These are core workers in central departments, now. Full Sail is clearly having trouble managing their financial future, so they’re cutting the engine to make room for other projects, but if I were a student considering Full Sail right now, this would be be a huge deterrent. They have not only removed crucial teachers, they have shaken up the rest of their workforce because it now appears these layoffs are going to continue regularly - look at their track record. Meanwhile, their founder, Jon Phelps, has very clearly lost interest in anything to do with education in media arts, investing instead in a new chain of schools called Craftmasters that teaches traditional trades. If the founder sees the writing on the wall of the doom of the media arts as an employment route, it’s not good for the folks who are left teaching and studying there.