I work at SBI in Landover, One thing they dont tell the public and this would have taken a GREAT DEAL of research is that they just got off of "WARNING" with their accrediation dept. Because of padding the numbers and falsifying enrollment numbers they were on a WARNING! Not much was explained but it was serious. Employees were coached on what to say and what not to say. The KICKER is when SACS came in to inspect the various facilities well all "SALES" material was torn from each sales reps cube! The REASON is because in education you are not supposed to operate as sales organization. The verbage in scripts has been changed to reflect more of an admissions department and less of a "DYNAMIC SALES ORGANIZATION" (this used to be in the mission statement for admissions). Now what does that spell out? Well the first thing is SBI operates as a sales organization not in an educational advisory capacity. Which should not be taking place! SACS (accrediting organization) gives them ample warning that they will be on thier premises. Also the main reason Accrediation is SO DEARLY IMPORTANT to this school is MONEY. With education this is how it works for the "school". When you go to in, you complete a Application for Federal Student Aid, all the money you get goes directly to the school. So if you get $4,000 for a Pell Grant that goes to the school! If you take out the $10,500 in Federal Loans that goes directly to the school. The bottom line is the school gets paid right away because you borrowed money! Well the revenue would be flooding in! And that's the beauty of being a company that operates in the ed.industry. They get their money up front and on time! Oh and as an admissions advisor if you retain a total of let's say 5 students, average tutition is $25,000/student. Well you just made the company $125,000 and that more than pays the 38-48,000 they decide to pay you! They do not have any criteria on being accepted. $50ap fee and you too will be a college student! Carl williams repeats his BAD behavior again again and again. He steals from every rep working there. When i worked he bragged daily about NEVER making a phone call (we r telemarkers) he was able to do this because he has access to the mainframe student info (given to him by the director of admissions Nigel T-Paul) carl uses this info to add slight changes to the student info and then puts the student in his own name. He is dishonest as the day is long. Nigel knows this but covers his own * because he is the one who recomended carl (with his over inflated salary) to the campus president. If carl DOES NOT perform then nigel is accountable.By virtue of his word... Which i have known this guy for more than a year and nigel's word is worth about as much as the weather forcast is to a groundhog. Neither of these employees have the trust of ANY of the 28 employees I have spoken with before entering this information. These guys are bad news for this school. And they should be investigated by the company at least. And the department of education.
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