Are you there, working, as if it is business as usual? What is stopping you from calling in sick and using up all of your PTO? Faculty, are you actually teaching classes? Why not just give your students passing grades and try to enjoy the rest of the summer? It's a fake school with fake degrees and fake credits, so why not just give out some fake grades? Their classes are no more likely to transfer if they get an "A" or if they get an "F". None of it means anything. You do not owe that company anything. They screwed you over and they screwed the students over. You shouldn't respect their rules. They don't respect you and they certainly don't respect the students.
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layoffs were done today with no severance and working for another 2 weeks! These people are the slimiest company/school that I’ve ever seen! They will say one thing and turn around and do another. Students Run don’t look back this company don’t give a crap about your education let alone the employees that bust their asses to service students!
Faculty it doesn’t matter that we know what the truth is, former students are still going to post on here with false information, rumors, and insults.
Students, do your research yourselves. Companies will show on LinkedIn how many graduated from the same schools as you. Don’t listen to us, to DCEH, or students on a certain Facebook page. Everyone will show bias one way or another. Look at the other colleges, their programs, the companies you’d like to work for and whether what you are getting will put you in the position to be where you want after graduation and some experience under your belt. Nobody here will have the right answers because it will be different for everyone.
Dear Fashion Design Student who plans to continue at AiO,
“The fashion industry does not require anyone to have an accredited degree, just a kick as portfolio and course work that matches the industry jobs”
Please take the time to look at AiO portfolios and course content and then decide if the AiO classes that haven’t been updated in 10+ years will help you or others create that “kick a--” portfolio.
"I came from from major N.Y. and L.A. brands as a designerand design director and my colleauges the same."
Reminds me of the old saying: Those that can't do teach, those that can't teach, teach gym or at Ai.
Students, get out now. These people have no intention of lifting a finger to help you. Their entire attitude now and in the future is to provide you with nothing but false hope.
They are essentially saying: Look we stole your money fair and square and goodluck trying to get it back.
Many of the key grifters in the DC organization are retreads from EDMC.
DO NOT listen to or trust in what they selectively tell you. This goes double for the feckless loser skeletal faculty.
These self proclaimed "nimble footed" dimwits never could and never will be the ones to legitimize your life or your place in this world.
That dear students (and I'll let you in on a secret) you always do for yourself.
Why is it that no one here seems to get how loan forgiveness works? Many students can not afford to lose all their credits and start over from scratch on another degree. They are bette suited to transfer as many credits as possible, as soon as possible, to another institution. Loan forgiveness requires dropping out of school, foregoing all credits, applying for foregivness, and waiting for a response. In the main time, they must start repaying the loans. If they decide to pursue another degree, if has to be in a different area of study (yes, you don’t just lose your credits but lose the ability to pursue that degree/career path). Loans just don’t get foregiven.
My classes are all meeting...1/3rd of my students are staying till the end and transferring to online or on campus for the few classes they have left to graduate. Some only will have one more quarter after Dec. to finish. The fashion industry does not require anyone to have an accredited degree, just a kick as portfolio and course work that matches the industry jobs. Our dept. is known in the industry for producing highly trained students and you can fine them at hundreds of major brands and designer labels on both coasts, other states and internationally. We have knocked it out of the park for the last 20 years I have been here and emplyers know that and request our interns season after season. I came from major N.Y., and L.A. brands as a designer and design director and my colleagues the same. My students are staying because they want to learn from me and then go on because they know what they are getting in my class is spot on, relevant and information that no one can ever take away from them. Some are staying and not graduating just so they get a chance to learn critical skills for the industry that they know our faculty can provide. I'm committed to staying until the end for my students.
Former faculty here-until an RIF a few years back. Anyone with integrity would tell students to take the loan forgiveness option and get out. And if I were still there I would see no problem with cashing the paychecks to teach those who remain. There was a time in a galaxy far far away when AI had a good reputation but that is long gone; the difference between students and faculty is faculty had to graduate from established colleges so they should know the difference....
Former student here. There are definitely things I’m unhappy about during my time there at Ai, but commenting on these posts and insulting the teachers isn’t helping our cause any. Please stop. It’s making all of us look bad and hurting our case.
Please make sure your students understand their options. Many will go but some will stay and they should be given information without favor to the school. Many of them don’t really understand what is going on and think their degrees aren’t any different from accredited schools but I’m proof that’s a lie. They hear what you’re saying but they’re not understanding how much this impacts us because to them a degree is a degree.
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Only the weird “anime” ones are sticking around.
So many of them smell
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Why don’t you come over here and say that
I like it rough
Of course I'm teaching them. Some actually want to learn. Quit if you don't want to teach.
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Well, well, well. Aren't you an all heart condescending little hermaphrodite creature.
Fire up them YouTube videos. Time to do some learnin’ Y’all
What would anyone expect you to do? Really? Stop letting that company brainwash you into thinking that continuing to teach for them is good for the students. You should tell the students what a scam it is, and you should take your summer paid on DCEH's dime. They won't fire you. How could they? You should use them for as much as you can get because it's only a matter of weeks before they ruin your livelihood. They won't be worried about your feelings or the students'.
I understand that there are upset former students that feel the need to troll these posts, but you have your little Facebook page to whine. There are plenty of faculty that care and are doing what we can to educate our students on their options. For those that decide to stay, what would anyone expect us to do other than continue with the material?
What’s best for your students is to tell them the exhorbitant amount they pay for your no longer even valid in its own bulls-t system course isn’t in their present or future interest. Teaching may be a calling but at this point you are simply justifying a lying scam. And the starving artist vibe is more spiritual and real than the ”soul killing me as an artist” shtick when you are just a pulling a paycheck Professor at a finished fraud pseudo playpen at this point, so please....stop lying to yourself.
What the last 5 people said! We care about our students at our campus.
Those of us still working and teaching are there because we are DEDICATED to our students. Our degrees are regionally accredited; we don't give grades, students EARN grades. There is a huge difference between DCEH/EDMC leadership and the faculty and staff at the campuses. I will continue to do what is best for my students until my last day on campus.
This isn’t teaching...it’s therapy and counseling. Everyone is upset and rightfully so.
Maybe the students will hire you once DCEH officially fires you #asstard!
Thank you for that. I am too for the same reason. It's all about the students for as long as I can.
Yes I'm actually teaching because believe it or not I have students showing up who actually want to learn.
And it's soul killing as the artist I am to show up somewhere just to collect a paycheck.