Taken from another thread because this is something every faculty member should read. A little light in dark days:
I don’t think it is fair to say that teaching at Ai is morally wrong. I’m sorry for hijacking this post but I was researching what happened to Ai as I am a former student and the one thing I can say is that the school and the price tag were ridiculous and absolutely worthless except for the teachers. Maybe I’m in the minority here but what I learned from them made all the Ai bs worth it. I didn’t have many options in my area as far as school goes but I was grateful that an Ai was down the road. I received my MFA this year from an established university and am fully employed in my field. I couldn’t have done that without the teachers from Ai.
At least the good teachers are doing what they can to give their students the best possible outcome after graduation. The students don’t come to Ai for the teachers, but some do stay because of the great ones.
My school is one that is closing and for the teachers that pushed us to be better, we appreciate it. For the ones that made us better artists, many thanks. For the ones that felt they were too good for the school, you should have left much sooner than you did because for those of us that did spend that money, I’d rather have teachers that saw something in us guide us in the right direction than think that leaving us there for the next teacher was the “moral” thing to do.