Our ABC affiliate in Indianapolis ran this expose last night: https://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/art-institute-of-indianapolis-facing-accreditation-issues-no-longer-accepting-new-students

Clearly DCEH has no need for the massive amount of gear all the closed schools have, or any clue how to handle something this large. Something tells me the dumpsters behind all closing Ai locations will be gold mines in the coming weeks/months...

Notice Date: 06/29/2018 Impact Date: 08/28/2018 Employees Affected: 118 Company Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC 1400 Penn Avenue Pittsburg,, PA 15222 Contact: Stacie Carter Type of Reduction Closure Location Arlington, VA Northern Region

In the meantime, academic staff at schools that are supposed to remain open begin offering 50% tuition reduction to all their students because they received the same email. What happens when the geniuses at corporate realize their incompetency and... — read more 

Dream Center Education Holdings LLC 1622 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 COUNTY: Philadelphia AFFECTED: 171 LAYOFF EFFECTIVE DATE: August 28, 2018 CLOSING OR LAYOFF: Closure

THE ACCREDITATION ISSUE HLC was you accrediting body. After the sale, they took away your accreditation when every other accrediting body of Ai schools didn't. If you feel it was an unfair move, please complain about HLC to NACIQI, who oversees HLC... — read more 

Verbatim, from an email received within the past hour. "The steps being taken will necessitate changes to current staffing at your campus. Staffing changes will be made gradually between now and the end of the calendar year. Some employees will exit... — read more 

Received the following email from DCEH even though my school was not listed as one the is closing/teaching out. Anyone else get this? Thoughts? Are all AIs now closing, or is it just the usual DCEH incompetence, sending an email meant for a few to... — read more 

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dceh/reviews

The president in Chicago is not returning our emails or returning our numerous calls and voicemails.

I was on this call this morning, was debating as to how I can leak this info without making my position to obvious to our boys upstairs, and it's already on the board! I'll provide what ever extra I can though. The bullet points: Yes, all students... — read more 

Good afternoon to everyone except the snakes at DCEH management! 🤡

Some new information as to what happens after thr current round of closures and teach outs. All remaining Art Insitute campuses will be converted to "Learning Centers". No degree granting programs will be taught at these locations. This will be a... — read more 

So the original post was taken down.... maybe Fraud would prefer if it was in Spanish as that is what his degrees are in!!! No academic background at all! The Clown makes nearly a quarter million a year for his total incompetence!!! How much are... — read more 

Finally found some references to what's going on right now in the media, but it's specific for Philadelphia. I'm assuming this is similar with other locations, local news media in affected cities is covering individual Art Institutes. However... — read more 

All of the emails we get from Dream Center have no names attached.... just Dream Center. No accountability, just a faceless corporation.

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/07/02/art-institute-colorado-closes/ First, we get a letter that we're closing on Saturday, then an email that we're staying open on Monday, and now on Tuesday the Denver Post publishes that the closing was filed with... — read more 

July 2, 2018 The new owner of 31 Art Institute schools across the country has ceased enrollment at a number of locations, although the Art Institute of Pittsburgh continues to accept students, a spokeswoman confirmed Monday. Dream Center Education... — read more 

I see that some of the still open schools like Dallas and Seattle are listed on the chapter 7 bankruptcy. What does this mean for students?

Where are those fabulous journalism skills? Lots o b---s--- to report on today my dude!

So, do you think DCEH knew all along that they were closing the HLC schools and that's why they were slow to address loosing accreditation? It seems like they played down the accreditation issue just to get more new students and keep current students... — read more 

So they fully intended on simply closing the HLC campuses, but for some reason they stopped in their tracks...

So i know the plan was to have people flown to all the campuses to deliver the msg but you had to Literally call them back minutes before they could but please do better than those two emails today. The first one.... ok But that second email ... — read more 

I'll just leave this here: The leadership is so inept, they were not able to even file a WARN notice properly

As someone who graduated in Graphic Design (AS) and even worked at AiFL in a student workers position, I watched in the 3 years I was there, that school slowly start going downhill and then began going faster and faster. I made amazing friends and... — read more 

https://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/art-institute-of-indianapolis-facing-accreditation-issues-no-longer-accepting-new-students

By the way faculty and staff, you are not our priority..in case you were wondering

Colleagues, You may have received, or soon will receive, via U.S. Mail a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice dated June 29, 2018. Please disregard this notice. It was unfortunately distributed in error, and we were unable to... — read more 

What does it mean for campuses that were not listed in the campus closure email but are listed on the bankruptcy filing website? For example, AI Tampa. Just confused at the moment.

For those of you that thought the layoff letters in Denver were b---s--- or that we all should buy property from a Nigerian prince-do you believe us yet?

Chicago admissions was told there won’t be anymore enrolling for July.. but were not sent home.

I hear Admissions folks are leaving as soon as today. Any word on other departments?

Anybody wondering why there is zero media coverage on this? This is not a small thing, thousands of people will be out of a job due to this, and yet it seems like nobody cares. I don't have a good explanation on why that's the case. I can't even say... — read more 

Ya we are none of those things...no wonder we’re closing

More info on when a company files Chapter 7 and what happens to employee pay: https://www.citybarjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Bankruptcy-Basics-A-Guide-for-Employees_2016.pdf This was posted by @TXSqAcv-tls in another thread. Bumped... — read more 

Do we have any info now that we know which locations are closing?

"It is important to note that current, active students should continue to attend class as scheduled. However, we are continuing to assess the viability of our current offerings at these locations." It's good to see that employees are not the only... — read more 

At Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH), we are committed to providing students with an accessible, affordable, relevant, and purposeful education. Over the last several months, we have taken a strategic and comprehensive look at each of our three... — read more 

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