All Ai Students to be converted to Online, left over schools to become "Learning Centers"

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 place for vocational atyle courses not relsted to existing Ai programs, more inline with DCEH vision of vocational training.

Some operational staff will remain at these locations.

All existing Ai students will be converted to Ai Online students.

What the relationship between the online system and these learnimg centers are is unclear.

More information will be added as it becomes available. This has only been disseminated to Campus Presidents that are at locations that are not on the closure/teachout list via a phone call this morning.

This comes grom the same source that the original leak about closures came from. There is no written communication given regarding this yet, will provide if it does become available.

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@agp, it's not a joke to Brent Richardson. He is making a transition to online for one reason only. MONEY. The guy is on boards of companies that sell online education. He stands to gain a lot from this. If @btv is right about state and local funding, it's going to feed the pockets of Richardson for a few good years before he implodes DCEH completely.

I worked in Career Services and I NEVER saw an online portfolio that was marketable. They need the on ground critique and mentoring. We all knew online was a joke. It may be good for some academic areas but they will never be employed. 8 weeks of Maya... what a joke.

Photography, culinary, interior design, graphic design, web design, etc., could all do training programs on the software they use as well. This could be lucrative for DCEH. Not so much for faculty, but all of us who have been with Ai for a while know faculty have always been viewed by Ai administration, EDMC and now by DCEH as not worth a dime a dozen, and they are still considered too expensive.

DCEH = total scam

Local governemnts (state and city) give out huge bucks to non profits that run training programs in impovirsehed areas to help woth a variety if socioeconomic issues. If DCEH plays thier cards right it could be very lucrative.

Tons of these training centers are in los angeles, 100% funded by local government. Some are great, some are total scams, i wonder which one Dream Center will be?... Lol

What I think is hilarious is that DCEH hasn't figured out that without degree granting programs and federal dollars, no one's going to register and pay for these trainings.

Most areas where there are Ai's are also community colleges that offer continuing ed vocational trainings at a fraction of the cost.

Vocational training? That's corporate speak for Woz U

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