Thread regarding Education Management Corporation layoffs

Sooner rather than later, the only lives ruined would be of those who were ever directly tied to EDMC/Ai!

Ugggg.

Argosy has already started recruiting "students affected by the ITT closure." ADA's and SDOAs are already seeing pressure from corporate to get those students enrolled.

Jbx, are you a recruiter? I was and let me put things in perspective for you, there is so much pressure to hit numbers you end up recruiting people who have no place being in college because if you don't you are fired and it's not the odd person here and there, it's at least 50% since the industry went into free fall in 2012. Most admissions directors make Tony Soprano look like a humanitarian. They're on you day in day out, where are your apps? Their boss is on them the same way and the whole thing is ugly. If you don't think aggressive recruiting is the problem you really don't get it. Aggressive recruiting is the whole problem. Switch out the word aggressive with selective and the problem is solved. Well, for the consumer, the government and the employee anyway.

Wow - you are so misguided in your statement. First of all, ITT did not even offer Industrial Design and only 5 Ai campuses do offer this program. There are no real parallel programs to easily roll students into at Ai from ITT. This is a shameless sales ploy to squeeze out more money before they finally fold up for good. Community colleges will most likely not take these credits because they are worthless and from an accreditation agency that will very likely be banished in September. Bush had nothing to do with this...at all. Obama has done nothing for this either. The entire issue has to do with money. Students are defaulting on loans they can't afford for over priced worthless education. The government is losing millions and millions of dollars on this fiasco. That is the entire problem. Lets see...... $100,000.00 in student loans for a culinary degree that pays the same amount in the kitchen with no education and a $600.00 per month payment. Um yeah....this is doomed.

As for colleges with stadiums, they have huge donor programs. you just can't even compare the two.

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This is absolutely disgusting! Art Institutes is a scam school along the same vein as ITT, fraudulent to its core. I hope they crash and burn.

I don't get what is so disgusting about this. These student were screwed by ITT closing. Not many ITT students will end up transferring to AI...Industrial Design? If AI takes their transfer credits that will be better then losing all that time and money with no degree. I doubt seriously any community college or university would take ITT credits. Why is AI in the wrong? I think it is a small move to help a bad situation but it won't impact many students. And they have choices, don't transfer. As for AI, they have been aggressive in recruiting in the past...not sure why that is a problem as long as they don't break any laws. And those laws seem to fluctuate by administration. Blame Bush for all the deregulation. Obama brought back some sense of oversight. Whether it is for-profit or non-profit all schools are out to make money, build more buildings, more programs, big campuses...why is there no complaints about schools with massive stadiums and athletic programs while undeserved students are left with little options? AI is opening the door to these students...and yes, education costs money. Just like healthcare. Nothing is free. My 2 cents.