Thread regarding Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC (DCEH) layoffs

Flash news to the poster: you will be unemployed soon. go shower with sh-- and dont call AI a blessing. Burn in hell

Ai “a creative hub” what? WTF? Seriously? I’m laughing so hard I just peed a little. Just got sick in my mouth a little as well. There are some serious Jim Jones Koolaid drinking brainwashed a---kissing wannabe administrator wh--es on this blog. Damn! You people are sick but entertaining.

The campus was a creative hub of professionals supporting each other and guiding thousands of grads toward their dreams.

A creative hub people. A creative hub.

Wow. In my 20 years with Ai, I have never heard it referred to as a creative hub.

We do get 25% military spouses (male and female these days) who choose Ai because there is (was) one everywhere and online and Ai markets heavily to get GI Bill dollars, 25% students who think they’re creative because they’re moms said they were, 25% who can’t get into any other school because they have low gpa or sat scores, 25% who are just pawns to salesmen and can’t say “no” and 0% who are serious and dedicated to a professional career.

It’s a money-making machine, for the executives not for employees or graduates.

@WVTa8nA-1uga

Nothing that you've said is worth a bag of excrement. There's no credibility, for the most part, in your self serving positive assertions because the stats show that for many and for many years the great majority of students who have attended these so called schools were hideously exploited and financially ruined, all with your help.

So try to accept the fact that you may need psychiatric treatment as a danger to yourself and documentably others and move on to the next reason to overcome your delusion that you are anything more than a skid mark on the road of life with little to be proud of.

2sne-I agree. The June 2015 and September 2018 layoffs did leave a huge pool of faculty on the street but at some point people should see the writing on the wall, show some pride, and move on, rather than humiliate themselves by groveling for a tainted paycheck, likely to soon disappear anyway.

Theres no way we are making it through March - there are no leads coming in and no marketing being done for the AI SYSTEM. On top of that bills arent getting paid. We are lucky to be getting paychecks at all

Full time faculty were flat out told not to even think about overload pay for extra classes any more, there is a plethora (that is verbatim, too big of a word for our admin, I digress) there is a plethora of laid-off FTF from closing Ais begging to fill in as adjuncts. Plus there are our own laid off FTF from a few years back desperately seeking adjunct status. It is unfortunate and unsettling to see so many so dependent on DCEH and Ai.

Agreement with -igyc unemployment pays as well and is less of a hassle.

One of my friends had been a full time AI instructor for 20 years when they laid her off in September, then offered her two classes at adjunct pay. She said she could make more just taking unemployment without the hassle...

Were they from one of the smaller schools? Three is surprising.

@1gmf No, they resigned. That was definitely a statement on their end because our new quarter starts pretty soon.

1gmf there is no such thing as severance now - so just leave

@1ebv - were the instructors laid off? It has been awhile since any layoffs. I have been looking forward to Friday, but only because I want that severance before starting my new job.

In another post, I commented that my Ai campus would remain open until mid m-2019. I take that back, I'll give it three more months.

We just lost three instructors today, students are dropping out constantly, and it seems as if everyone is leaving for employment elsewhere. Our school is essentially a ghost town. It's sad.

Of course, this is YOUR opinion. 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 and even 30+ years. The campus was a creative hub of professionals supporting each other and guiding thousands of grads toward their dreams. And that wasn't easy considering their were little or no requirements to be accepted at AI schools. But maybe that was what made AI unique, it was home to students who were left behind, who were unique, misunderstood or even struggled in a traditional college environment. Not all of them succeeded because the career arts are tough, low paying at start and require real commitment and some talent. But AI was an a great place to experience and I am proud of our campus that recently closed. The fall came for EDMC and the AI brand came when the EDMC boards were filled with U of Phoenix and Goldman Sacs members who pushed the company toward excessive growth and profits over quality programs. So many of the things that made AI successful have been squeezed out of the mix. The days of 2 or 3 support staff per student are long gone and replaced with one department head for 5 or 6 departments, student workers covering classrooms and no full time faculty. Add to that the elimination of career services, portfolio reviews, student clubs and student services and you have little left. As long as DCEH owns AI, it has no future.