The Art Institutes (Ai) are a arrangement of for-profit art colleges with 50 locations beyond the United States and one in Vancouver, Canada. However, at atomic 19 schools are in the action of closing and 5 added schools are accident their accreditation. The schools action master's degrees, bachelor's degrees, accessory degrees, and certificates in visual, creative, applied, and comestible arts. The Art Institutes' ancestor company, Apprenticeship Management Corporation (EDMC), is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In November 2014, EDMC was delisted from the NASDAQ amidst banking difficulties, lawsuits, and investigations and its banal is admired at beneath than one cent per share.
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Thousands of above acceptance of the Art Institutes affirmation they accept been bamboozled and addled by the schools and their recruiters and accept filed claims with the US Department of Education.
History
The Art Institutes arrangement was created in 1969 if Apprenticeship Management Corporation (EDMC) acquired The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, which was originally founded in 1921. Starting in 2000, The Art Institutes began alms bachelor's degrees and, in 2001, launched its ambit apprenticeship program, Art Institute Online, which began alms bachelor's and non-degree programs online.
Throughout the 2000s, The Art Institutes broadcast through the accretion of absolute art colleges and the enactment of new Art Institutes. In 2001, there were about 20 campuses of The Art Institutes; this grew to about 30 locations in 2006 afore extensive 50 Art Institutes in 2010.
EDMC's antecedent accessible alms (IPO) was in 2009. Todd S. Nelson, who was ahead the CEO of Apollo Apprenticeship Group, became a became an EDMC lath affiliate in 2007 and the Chairman of the Lath of Directors in 2012.
In 2011, Frontline appear a documentary blue-blooded Educating Sergeant Pantzke. In the documentary, Iraq war adept Chris Pantzke discussed the abridgement of affliction casework at the school. According to Pantzke, "Being a soldier, you don’t wish to quit, you don’t wish to accord up or fail." Afterwards accomplishing his own research, Pantzke assured that the amount he was advancing wasn’t "worth abundant added than the cardboard is worth," and acquainted he was "throwing abroad aborigine money" by application GI Bill funds.
Since 2012, The Art Institutes schools accomplished a abatement in the amount of new acceptance enrolling, seeing acceptance numbers bead by about 20 percent amidst the added division of the 2012 budgetary year and the alpha of 2013. EDMC has attributed the bead in acceptance to bound admission to Ancestor Loan for Undergraduate Acceptance and the bread-and-butter recession. In February 2013, EDMC appear affairs for a three-year-old charge benumb at The Art Institutes. Beneath this plan, the aggregation apprenticed to advance the accepted amount of charge through 2015.
In June 2013, EDMC appear that its President John Mazzoni would abandon able July 14, 2013, afterwards 27 years at the organization. Charles Restivo, Group Vice President, would become the Interim President of The Art Institutes.
In 2014, the US Department of Apprenticeship appear that ten EDMC campuses, including several Art Institutes, were placed beneath acute banknote monitoring. The Art Institute of Pittsburgh was one of the schools listed.
In May 2015, EDMC appear that it would be closing the doors of 15 of the Art Institute locations. "A absolute of 5,432 acceptance are enrolled a part of the campuses that are slated to close, according to a annual provided by EDMC. The aggregation will abide a advise out action at anniversary location, acceptation anniversary campus will abide to action courses, apprentice casework and adjustment abetment until the endure apprentice has graduated, according to Hardman." Some of the campuses slated to abutting cover ones in Atlanta, Ohio, New York City, Texas and Pennsylvania. In January 2016, EDMC appear that added Art Institutes would be abeyance enrollments. These campuses are The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, The Art Institute of St. Louis, and the Art Institute of Tucson. This brought the absolute amount of Art Institutes campuses slated for cease to 18. At atomic 200 added advisers were laid off in May 2016.
On September 8, 2016, Art Institutes acceptance accepted as "I Am Ai" presented a apprehension to the Director of New England Institute of Art (NEIA) about a accusation that would be advancing in 30 days. The accusation is getting accounting by the Legal Casework Center of Harvard Law School. On September 24, 2016, the Attorney General of Massachusetts bidding affair that the teaching duties at NEIA were getting taken over by an actionable Indian aggregation with no accomplishments in teaching US art students. The AG’s Office declared that if a able apprenticeship for NEIA acceptance could not be ensured, that NEIA should shut down at the end of the 2016. Politico added that an Indian aggregation ability be affairs the Art Institute of New York City and NEIA.
Schools and programs
As of September 2016, there were 32 Art Institutes continuing to accept new students, down from a calculation of 50 in 2013, as able-bodied as the Art Institute Online, with a absolute of 56,070 students. The Art Institutes schools annual for about bisected of all EDMC schools and added than bisected of EDMC's absolute apprentice population.
The Art Institutes action amount programs at the associate's, bachelor's and master's levels, as able-bodied as non-degree authority programs. Areas of abstraction cover clear design, media arts and animation, comestible arts, photography, agenda filmmaking and video production, autogenous design, audio production, appearance design, bold art and design, baking and pastry, and appearance marketing.
The Art Institutes in Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minnesota, New York City, Phoenix, Saint Louis, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Vancouver, Wisconsin, and York were accepted by ACICS, which has absent its accreditation ability from the US Department of Education.
➣ The Degrees by 'The Art Institute' :
➭ Culinary Arts
➭ Hotel Management Program
➭ Interior Design
➭ Game Art & Design
➭ Photography
➭ Media Arts & Animation
➭ Fashion Marketing
➭ Fashion Design
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