It makes me laugh to think that DCEH thinks they can teach degrees in technology. At my school, we couldn't afford to hire someone from the community to teach a web class. Why would they when they make so much more money outside of education. Strong teaching candidates for these types of programs will go to a respectable college to teach. There are also so many coding academies that have a good reputation that will honestly "weed out" the people that don't belong in the program. AI takes every one, and even if your instructors are threatened with physical harm, they will not discharge that student. The almighty buck is more important than creating a quality institution.
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No. DCF only THINKS they're about to con states for money. State's that have closed schools will already be suspicious especially since DCEF's closings have been such a clusterf*ck
DCF is now going to steal funding from cities and states for vocational training. Richardson saw that this is an opportunity ripe for theft when he combined with Dream Center to do this deal.
Since March 2017 DCF has been telling everyone that AI is a POS organization with lousy management, administrators and they might keep them if only for technical training (they probably mean software training, Word, Excel, Visio, etc. for entry level minimum wage jobs).
“the least aligned institution to the Dream Center’s mission would be the Art Institutes. But he (Barton) said the (DCF) foundation would consider offering more technology training degrees through the Art Institutes to fill growing job market needs. ”
‘These kinds of things (design degrees like interiors, fashion, graphics) that are very expensive to teach - and they’re jobs that don’t pay well out of college.’”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/large-profit-chain-edmc-be-bought-dream-center-missionary-group
Ai Pittsburgh has some old POS computers
In our city technology is either computer software or hardware. Companies are looking for software engineers or maybe IT. Since teaching IT would require having up to date hardware, that should make people laugh even more
Art Institutes teach computer skills they don't teach technology there is a difference.
Exactly since there are actually some good FREE resources for coding like https://www.codecademy.com/ and https://www.khanacademy.org/