A great business with real mission - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso UniversityNow

Great staff, faculty, and working environment. Looked forward to work everyday.

Announced closure and laid everyone off...

UniversityNow's goal is to make high-quality job-relevant higher education accessible by making it eminently affordable and on a flexible schedule that recognizes the fact that students may already know some of what a course is meant to impart. Such a noble and worthwhile mission attracts team members with the best hearts, and in my experience, the brightest minds as well. The company's second CEO, Bryan Newman, was an example of this, which I wanted to point out explicitly, because I down-voted the CEO listed here on Glassdoor and didn't want readers to confuse the two.

Education is a tough profession to be in, especially when trying to serve disadvantaged students; this is true even at the college and graduate-school level. You almost have to bend over backward to create a system that helps such students succeed -- sometimes despite themselves! And any business that aims to serve customers who need a low-cost product will have, as we did, struggles with some who truly can't afford it at all or are used to being so financially strapped that they're accustomed to not paying their bills.