College Track Reviews

There’s been a drastic fall-off in quality decision-making, communication, and staff morale over the past year when a new CEO took the helm. (The former CEO remains featured on this site, but the current CEO is Shirley Collado.) Decision-making: “Drinking from a fire hydrant” is an understatement of how fast and fierce decisions are handed down across the organization. Rarely made from a place of evidence-based rationale or careful planning, nearly every significant decision has been recalled or pivoted from and every timeline is delayed. Leadership’s decisions are made in a vacuum that values neither internal nor external collaboration. Communication: The current leaders communicate through manipulation of information and both lies of omission and outright lies. They tell staff how to feel about organizational developments. They tell us to rethink our place at College Track if we won’t praise the emperor’s new clothes – clothing that doesn’t exist, but everyone must pretend to find dazzling. Staff morale: College Track has become a painfully political environment where staff don’t feel safe to trust one another. The CEO and COE avoid any kind of accountability, preferring to throw their direct reports under the bus through the guise of “empowering” them or by blaming past leaders. The organization has devolved from a place that prioritized staff culture to one where that culture must be centered on and loyal to the leader at the top.

Very small space for so many students. No full time opportunities available.