I have been here quite a while and I always see people leaving. They rearrange departments every other month getting rid of the people that have been here for years and replacing them with new employees. I stopped keeping track of the number of employees who have quit. Their new higher ups are really concerned about how everything looks - is the hallway classy, are the students being seen quickly, are their too many students waiting, are students walking with an open cup of cocoa. What she doesn't worry about is....why is our admissions department recruiting students that have no interest in an education, why are our students only concerned with getting a financial aid check, why are our employees leaving. There is no system in place to conduct exit interviews - so they never fix the problem of why our staff is leaving. We have had so many dedicated, good people leave, because Baker didn't hear what they had to say or work with employees to keep them. There are so many days/weeks/months off that we are not allowed to take, because they are mandatory work days/weeks/months. Students run our school. Whatever the student says, we do, just so they can maintain their student status. We bend over backward for the wrong type of student who steps all over us to make sure they are getting their financial aid - yet take no responsibility for their own education. Our limited enrollment departments are the only departments where the students are smart and want to learn - the medical departments. The students here are rude, act entitled, uneducated (it is a right to try school - so anyone can come here), and live off of financial aid. They are trying to make everything "centrally located" which means that Flint (their main office) would be the hub for a lot of departments - financial aid, business office, IT. This is causing a lot of staff to be cut, yet remodeling offices continues. Our advising department is nearly depleted, yet they expect students to never have to wait to see one of the advisors. The advisors have no authority and make no decisions - the students do. Upper management will not listen to lower level staff, they will listen to students and fear students going to the President.
