Dream Center update:
Students getting evicted, Staff, including fired staff, not getting paychecks Studio won't buy WSCL. Judges now forced to run colleges. https://www.republicreport.org/2019/devos-fiddles-schools-burn/
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Be here now. Stop ruminating on the glory days before the advent of the for-profit debacle. It's irrelevant. This present mess has been going on way too long and equivocating over apples and oranges may make you feel better but does little to help those who have been totally screwed over. Life goes on but was it really necessary for Wall Street to turn the delivery of Education into just another transactional widget sale?
@Y6eZ71Y-jpa Don't let the trolls bother you. Clearly the Art Institutes had a exceptional history before the greedy investors took over. Some schools were around for 40, 50 75 years with great reputations and alumni. I work with several to this day. But this is clearly a lesson in greed. And it all started when EDMC went publicans partnered with Goldman Sachs. They changed the board to Apollo Education Group people. Thats when the company turned into Starbucks, a campus on every corner focused solely on profits. Up until that time AI was a smaller organization and listened to employers in each part of the country delivering grads that were skilled and ready to enter careers. Goldman streamlined everything, cutting equipment and programs, outsourcing staff...it killed the local art college concept and what made AI unique over other colleges. Now community colleges have stepped up to deliver similar programs. And the new "owners" EPF/Studio seem destined to repeat the past.
I definitely know great Ai faculty and that many Ai students did get the careers they sought. I have said this all along. But as owners and executives got greedier and less ethical, the prices were too high, many students were recruited through deception, the schools admitted students whom they should have known would not succeed in the selected programs, money for equipment and instruction was cut, etc. Good career programs were corrupted.
Studio CANNOT buy WSCL due to title-iv being stripped and the court indicating they will not allow WSCL to operate independently because they will not have access to title-iv funds.
I know people are upset but I wish you would stop discrediting the entire school. I worked at AICA-H and we had a great faculty who truly cared about the students. Our department's job placement was high and our students were in demand. I agree that it was expensive but it was a good education and we did prepare them to succeed in the industry. Many of my students have gone on to successful careers- and I'm proud of that. So please stop lumping the faculty in with the admin. We are still meeting with students and holding events to help further them in their careers...for FREE because we truly care about them.
The whole premise that you could turn $100,000 art degrees into a career was a scam from the beginning. People never really turned these degrees into jobs whether it was culinary arts or a sixth tier law school. When people started figuring this out, people stopped enrolling, the debt started piling up, accreditation was lost, Title IV funding was lost, etc etc, and you had demographics with less 18 year olds showing up in the first place. Subpar education with subpar teachers with subpar students with Harvard sized debt. What could go wrong?
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