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All Ai College Students are Going to be Online Only Soon

Re-posted from DCEH board:

I was on this call this morning, was debating as to how I can leak this info without making my position to obvious to our boys upstairs, and it's already on the board!

I'll provide what ever extra I can though.

The bullet points:

Yes, all students will eventually be transferred to Ai Online (yes all of them, details below)

Yes, the campuses that will remain open (for example the two here in California) will become DCEH Art Institute Learning Centers (these will not be degree granting institutions)

So just a couple of additional details not mentioned in the initial post:

The types of courses that will be held at the learning centers will be (as a user here already guessed) vocational style training. Specifically software training- think 8 week training programs in Maya, Adobe, Pro Tools, etc...

This would be run through funding (at least here in California) through the state. Students generally will not take out loans or pay for these programs, rather the the state will assuming these students are learning skills that will make them more employable.

The original poster is partially correct about students all going online. Not all Ai leftovers will become centers immediately. As one becomes a center, the students will transfer to remaining schools in the area. Only when all Ai schools are converted will they be told Online is the only option (or of course transferring out).

Also the feeling we all got on the call was the DCEH really has little interest in keeping the College students even online, they have realized that federal dollars are going away, so this new strategy is targeting state money.

Well there you go. Take the info as you will.

4 hours ago by Anonymous | Post ID: @TYwrghB

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wow

Good evening. You recently received a communication from Dream Center Education Holdings with the subject line Update for Employees: Next Steps. This email was sent in error. We greatly apologize for the confusion caused by this message. If you have any questions, please reach out to your campus president.

Just another clusterf**k by DCEH. Nothing to see here, move along.

I’ve had student’s crying outside my office with no options for transferring anywhere! There programs are not offered online. This is dreadful and some faculty still don’t know about the school closing...some of them are just getting the message about accreditation (which they heard mostly via word of mouth and department chairs who have had the balls to tell them)!

Wouldn’t they have to keep it open for the time being just for AiO?

Piittsburgh. Everyone in Pittsburgh received this email saying no new starts and giving copy of the email to students offering 50 percent off tuition. What? Thought Pittsburgh was one of the open campuses And still no names from Dream Center sign the email.

Agreed. The rest of Ai schools will close soon due to "insufficient demand" blah blah blah

What campus are you from?

Frankly, it wouldn't shock me if this little snafu with the DOE is allowing them to re-plot and also take out the existing campuses during week 12 between summer and fall quarter... end it all by the end of 2018.

This is probably standard DCEH incompetence. However don't be confused. All Ai's will be closing soon enough. You must know this. Richardson is moving everything to online because he's going to make $.