Thread regarding Education Management Corporation layoffs

Zero f---s given

As a former employee at one of the Art Institutes under Art Institute of Atlanta I was laid off last year. EDMC and local level school leadeships are all crooked (pick a campus they are all the same). I feel bad for the students, employees, faculty, etc who lost jobs and students who were "taken advantage of". However at what point are you going to move on?

Faculty, staff, you all knew for years what you were dealing with. Its all predatory so what now? Students if you failed to fo your research as to retention, persistence, job and career outcomes then you are foolish.

I personally don't feel bad anymore, more angry than mad and that energy has lead me into other careers in higher ed. So my advice is to walk, run, skip, shuffle, whatever but LEAVE. Students use all your resources available but in the meantime find a quality college and do your research.

Special shout out to stretched out Danny DeVito aka The Penguin and Freckle Franny at the AiAtlanta system of Art Institutes...was it worth it? Can you sleep easy at night knowing the part you played in people losing jobs.

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And not enrolling first year students in math or English since those courses would not be as fun or result in a lower gpa.

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Post ID: @2bwh+JGnkSBZ

@JGnkSBZ-1ycm, how many department chairs and program coordinators said nothing?

How many people at Ai and other schools said something and were pushed out?

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Post ID: @1byr+JGnkSBZ

How about classes marked as "low success" with quarterly reviews putting pressure on the faculty to improve the number that pass by dumbing down the content.

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I too am a former Ai employee. I was a department chair, then a program coordinator. I became so upset with the corruption and abuse of funds and the manipulation of students that I left. I hope these schools do close, as they are a waste of taxpayers money and contribute the "dumbing down" of America.

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Post ID: @1ycm+JGnkSBZ

This is exactly the people that were the problem at EDMC. Good riddance

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Post ID: @oof+JGnkSBZ

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this OP. Thumbs up! Middle finger. Whatever....

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Post ID: @wgo+JGnkSBZ

Hey Middle Finger, go make love to your self! People enroll in "X" school with the sole purpose of bettering their lives. They entrust their future in "X" school and being duped and scammed into a Ponze scheme is the last thing on their minds. It's not their fault for not researching. It's losers like you who know no real world viable skills, other than ruin young financial lives, who is at fault!

I'm glad to hear you're over it and that you've moved on, but what you won't be able to do is outrun KARMA! It's real! It's a mother----er! And it's going to find your a--!!!

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@Middle finger, I'd like to know more about the corruption you are talking about so that I can include it in my analysis of EDMC.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/edmc-keeps-art-institutes-students-staff-dark-dahn-shaulis?trk=mp-author-card

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