"Parker said that the hotel zoning ordinance for extended-stay facilities limits stays to fewer than 30 days, while Galloway stated that the students’ average length of stay was four to six months. Parker said city staff members had posed undercover trying to rent rooms, and were informed that the facility is an Art Institute dorm."
http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2014/04/17/hub-real-hotel-dorm/
Stay classy, EDMC
This makes me sick. As a parent of a college student, I would NEVER allow my kid to stay at an extended stay hotel. Around here, it's a place where people without homes stay for as long as they can afford before living in their car. The AI students are PAYING TOO MUCH for this shoddy treatment and I wonder how many of them know it.
The past is an indicator of the future, dimwit.
There even was a student shot and killed by another student at this "dormitory". Yes, it was 2 years ago but little has changed in the interim.
Does it matter if the article is from 2014 or in the last three months? Not particularly. The school, which I've witnessed at the housing level, is a sham. The apartments in the area finally said enough is enough. Sorry, but 550 Abernathy was disgusting, and there was another apartment housing complex in Downtown Atlanta that was even worse, and even they didn't want Ai Atlanta students living in their apartments. Now, they've crammed all students into an extended stay hotel, just within walking distance of the school. I guess that means the shuttle bus is gone too. Sure, nothing to look at here. Just business as usual. Doesn't SCAD Atlanta do the same thing?
I'm sure the personnel I knew at that time are no longer working there, but they often used the RAs to do their dirty work. Evicting students from apartments, selling the Section 8 Downtown Atlanta apartments to kids and their parents during open house, and allowing for one RA to remain "on call" for more than one week. Not to mention EDMC reneged on contracts between RAs and EDMC that basically allowed for RAs to live rent-free and have a room to themselves in return for their work as RAs. RAs eventually had to share one room with another RA, which was not apart of the contract.
Even worse, since the Housing department was near the Career Services, anyone could easily overhear the conversations about how employment numbers were fudged. One example, a student was working at Radio Shack at the mall close by, and they counted it as employment in the Audio Production field.
2014? Stay current,troublemaker