https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/art-institute-of-seattle-lays-off-all-but-3-full-time-teachers-amid-fears-for-schools-future/
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There is a lot of difference between the California campus and AI Seattle. AI Seattle was once a reputable school with great teachers... California is LA LA land and everyone is phony and out for themselves. Anyone at the school that thinks this lady will change things is crazy. She is Fraud's puppet and the school will never be the art school it once was. Students- leave. This school needs to be closed. They should have sold it to an independent and given it half a chance. DCEH and EDMC instead ran it into the ground. I guarantee that I will be telling everyone to stay clear...
@VOLmVL7-1qct I wouldn’t believe your “reputable” source. The new director is the dean from the closing Orange County campus who is moving there to take over the campus full time at the end of the month.
Students in Seattle need to leave and sue. The education they promised you is fraudulent.
1hmv agreed
must also do with salaries - as a non - profit -- all salaries must be made public - this will expose the unequal salaries for the same jobs across all schools - which is illegal -- now non-profit and exposure of salaries would force them to adjust all salaries to the highest - resolution -- layoff all or most full time faculty, chairs etc -- then they have minimal people they have to make equal at the highest rate of those still there...dirty dirty
This whole business is edmc through and through
i would say tell the students what's going on but rats never squeel unless there's $$$ in it for them.
But not to worry this sh-- will rip through the student body like the plague.
Atlanta layed off almost all ftf. Ftf then asked to come back on as adjunct. Almost all took severance and declined. Students figuring it out fast and are leaving in droves. Enrollment under 1k.
1hmv plus one. AI as previously known can’t survive much longer. Whatever your role, it’s time to admit the obvious...
"DP" used to be the head of Ai Seattle. He rose through the ranks and stole whatever he could. I her he works for Quinstreet now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_Institute_of_Seattle
https://www.thelayoff.com/quinstreet
I know from a reputable source that the new Seattle director was an outside hire from the collapsed Corinthian empire. Ask her!
I visited Miami campus recently and they had similar layoffs. I was told the entire full time faculty is now 8 after almost 20 were cut. It is not a teach out campus. This is what happened at Fort Lauderdale, lay off the bulk of full timers, replace with adjuncts. Cut back class sections, kill classroom budgets, cut chairs and staff to minimum and have a Dean run entire campus. There is no plan for the future because there is no future. This company is in the final stages of closing every AI campus. It might be in 2019 or 2020 but very soon. They could never pass the scrutiny of accreditation with such little staff and most faculty part time. And perhaps this is what EDMCs planned all along. Pawn off the assets for pennies, declare bankruptcy and avoid all the responsibility of the greedy mess they made. I heard DCEH never made payments to EDMC for the purchase. It's all little shady.
Seattle is not a teach out. Before it was AIS it was Burnley School of Art and has much history. That is gone along with many instructors that have taught for over 20 years. It is now run by some one from a California school who must have ingratiated Fraud or Tuesday. Admissions is still there because they have no problem bringing in students that will never graduate. They are low class sales people that have no conscience (and big salaries) Have pity DCEH and close the school. The history is over. You took a once great school and ruined it
Ai Austin was recently hit hard with layoffs of ftf
qot not all true
AiPOD lost no one lately - a few admin here and there over the last year.
All directors were laid off 10/2016 -- they now have chairs that are just curriculum managers and lead faculty. Some ftf were laid off a long time ago.
AiP lost no ftf lately that I know of -- some chairs took off for greener pastures.
They were hit a long time ago
According to the grapevine, all campuses lost full-timers and academic directors well after the closing of campuses was announced.
These are the only Ai campuses left standing according to wiki:
The Art Institute of Atlanta
The Art Institute of Austin
The Art Institute of California – Hollywood
The Art Institute of California – San Diego
The Art Institute of Dallas
The Art Institute of Houston
The Art Institute of Las Vegas
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division
The Art Institute of San Antonio
The Art Institute of Seattle
The Art Institute of Tampa
The Art Institute of Virginia Beach
Wrong, not a teach out.
This was announced at least 6 months ago as a teach out campus