https://www.republicreport.org/2019/brent-richardson-resigns-as-dceh-ceo/
Enrollment Support?
What do you all think this means? Providing enrollment support? What will be the impact on current enrollment/admissions staff? "A new managed service provider not affiliated with DCEH has been engaged to provide the necessary technology, services... — read more
“Corporate overhead left by EDMC” ?
The reference to “corporate overhead left by EDMC” : This is all bs...that debt in in the EDMC bankruptcy. Or maybe there has been a new action in the bankruptcy case rejecting that scam transaction.
How do you interpret this campus note?
How do you interpret this? We will continue evaluation of all campus locations across education systems to determine where students can best be served.
https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/1084998924711149573
https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/1084998924711149573
Corporate Restructuring Letter
One of my colleagues in culinary just sent this to me, good thing I left last quarter. Dear Colleagues: The last several years have brought enormous change to the higher education landscape and, specifically, to our education systems. The shifting... — read more
Sorry, The Layoff
This poor site is going to die without all of our traffic!
Insurance
Anyone know if this will change?
Another Important Email
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased and excited to announce that The Art Institutes has become part of a new non-profit foundation, the Education Principle Foundation (EPF), and will no longer be affiliated with Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) or... — read more
Corporate Restructuring
Dear Colleagues: The last several years have brought enormous change to the higher education landscape and, specifically, to our education systems. The shifting landscape, coupled with the vast amount of debt and fixed operating costs inherited when... — read more
Pittsburgh Post Gazette article today
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/01/14/Dream-Center-Education-Holdings-bankruptcy-reorganize-Art-Institutes-campuses-EDMC-accreditation/stories/201901140087
SEIZURE Notice at AI Las Vegas
Taxes not paid. I saw the post when I visited the school. What is going on?
Faculty qualifications
Do any other campuses do this? One of our regular adjuncts in Pittsburgh was hired straight after graduation from AI with Bachelors degree.
South on their own
Anyone else hear this? Presidents meeting on Firiday?
Seattle moved out of one of two buildings this week
Haven’t seen reported but Seattle campus landlord kicked them out of one of two buildings this week. They didn’t tell students or faculty until day before quarter started and they signed up new students. Building they lost had culinary, fashion and... — read more
more info about selling to The Studio
https://www.republicreport.org/2019/turmoil-at-dream-center-colleges-spills-open-with-seattle-at-risk-designation/
Turmoil at Dream Center Colleges Spills Open With Seattle “At-Risk” Designation
The financial and organizational turmoil at Dream Center Educational Holdings (DCEH), reported to me by multiple staff in recent weeks, has spilled into the open with, at least, a new letter from a Washington state higher education oversight body. In... — read more
PTO changes
Has anyone else noticed they are missing 8 hours or so from their PTO in Kronos under accruals? It shows our time split between pto and sick hours, and have less days/hours than years before without warning. Wonderful!
College Meltdown shows few signs of slowing in 2019
"While the number of reported campus closings was less than 500 in 2018, significant losses were reported in December, including the sudden closings of Brightwood Colleges and Virginia Colleges. Other significant losses, such as the the 23 Art... — read more
Campus Administrator's Purpose?
For those who are at an Ai schools (or any DCEH campus) with a campus administrator, have any of you seen any changes at your campus? Our administrator stays in his office all day and says practically nothing. Why did DCEH bring campus administrators... — read more
Look! A webinar about finding jobs in Academia via Art Institute
Today at 2:00. Someone watch this, and report. I am sure it will be as helpful as Trump's speech: Have you ever thought about working in education? Join us for this webinar as we discuss searching for jobs in academia! Register here >>... — read more
Telling all the high school kids to stay away from open AI schools
I'm working for a large public school district now and every student I speak to that has any interest in an AI school, I am telling them to stay far away. I never signed any gag order and everyone I meet I am only saying "stay away". I also know for... — read more
Update on bankruptcy filing
Ai Philly is showing 1/8 update: HEARING CANCELLED. Notice of Agenda of Matters not going forward. The following hearing has been cancelled. I haven’t seen the others updated yet, but I am still looking. Is anyone in here familiar with the bankruptcy... — read more
One Less PTO Day
Found out today that they took a paid-time-off day for everyone. The CEO and executive leadership can take a long walk off a short pier. 🤬🤬🤬
Bankruptcy rumor
Rumor that DCEH has stopped paying bills and rent on campuses.
It's 2019
How are any Art Institutes still operating???
HealthJoy
Anyone else having problems finding a doctor that will work with them?
Fiormer EDMC exec $46 million homes
Wonder where all that government loan money has been going? Not to educating students or giving faculty raises or decent salaries! Here is the proof. Robert Knutsen is selling his homes valued at $46 million. Published today Pittsburgh Trib Live with... — read more
DCEH is a "holdings" company...
Can you file Bankruptcy on a company you previously owned? If EDMC doesn't own AI then how can they file Chapter 7 on something they don't own? DCEH is a "holdings" company... there holding it for EDMC
Bankruptcy Court Case 1:18-bk-11541
Looks like there is a recent filing! here is the link for Seattle.... Last Filing: 11/09/2018 What does it say! Link is here:... — read more
AI, it has no future
"You can bad mouth the last EDMC board and the current DCEH owners for sure but our campus had decades of creative students who found productive careers because of the care and support of dedicated faculty and staff. We had many faculty there 10, 20... — read more
Admissions pay
Can anyone in admissions, specifically at AI, go into detail about their pay & the changes in pay that happened couple of months ago? Does anyone know how much they are currently offering to new employees? I know this differs state by state.
Pittsburgh evacuations this afternoon
Has anyone heard exactly what caused Penn Avenue locations to evacuate then send employees home this afternoon?
Stellar Communication
Kronos change:January 1st Email notification of change: January 2nd @1PM Another example of the stellar communication from our new leadership. *insert eye roll emoji
Every Ai school that made it to 2019 can count it as a blessing
DCEH never wanted Ai but had to take them as part of the deal to make a few million and pave the DCF leaders way to heaven in gold. Ai is antiquated obsolete and run by a bunch of wannabe university administrators, who BTW can only follow DCEH exec... — read more
Ai students being directed to DeVry, Trident, Walden?
From one subprime college to another? https://www.dcedh.org/partner-institutions
Bankruptcy Odds
So will it be Chapter 7 or 11 ?
How admissions works
All this BS from students about being lied to. Here’s how it really works. Student is presented all information about the program before applying. Including cost, time to completion, completion rate, job placement rate, default rates, and median... — read more
Are the Ai schools accredited by SACS still on probation?
Are the Ai schools accredited by SACS still on probation?
Why 2019?
I've noticed that posters keep saying that Ai won't make it past 2019? What's supposed to happen this year that would cause the school to close?