Thread regarding Education Management Corporation layoffs

Is the Sacramento campus closing? That campus is corrupt and does not have the best interest of its students in mind.

Go look at any state school job placement numbers and they're equally fudged. For example the teaching program at my school listed my class as something like 90% employed in the field because the majority of us were substitute teachers. Subbing nets you all of $10 an hour. This hate should be larger than simply for profits but for some reason non-profits get a pass like they're doing great. News flash, higher Ed as a whole in this country is broken.

I would love EDMC to tank, after all the misery they've cause to so many of my friends and classmates, I just want them all gone. I have nothing against the teachers, but everything against AI's false statistics and job placement forgery, as well as the impossible to pay off debt. Please don't form a union. Your hard work won't matter once EDMC sells the school, at that point the new owners will have every right to layoff all current staff and get new people; AI is a business, not a school.

Which CA schools? I have not received information.

I graduated awhile back. I'm told things have changed quite a bit, but when I was a student the instruction was good. I got a degree from a traditional college and then supplemented it with an edmc degree and the edmc degree helped me get professional work.

I actually didn't go to your sh--ty school. Just worked there but got out when I figured out the monster I was working for. Nice try though :)

I had a few really good teachers (adjuncts) who were stuck in the same crappy situation. They werent allowed to deviate from the syllabus and teach us anything meaningful (though some did anyways.) The person who suggested that anyone could pass the classes kind of hit the nail on the head, though, for why students like me have genuine grievances. I graduated with a 3.9 GPA, but since the college admitted anyone with a pulse, my experience was cheapened even moreso than having been in classes with sometimes subpar instructors. Sure, there were some teachers that genuinely cared, but there were also the ones who started class late, if at all. There were ones who showed movies and provided hours and hours of busy time instead of instruction. There were also those who were still pursuing their own masters degrees who didnt seem to have time to also be teaching. This is an issue with EDMC, though. Attacking the instructors, most of whom are adjuncts and ALSO in terrible working situations, is not helpful. I did have a few really great teachers and I have spoken to them since graduating and learned a lot about what they could and could not do as far as being able to change the curriculum to benefit students. EDMC wanted more students to pass so they could fudge their numbers. This was corporate and management. I sincerely doubt instructors even have time to be on these boards since they are already overworked and underpaid. The hate is coming from these corporate lackeys who make the big bucks to sit on their butts and push pencils. They need to convince themselves that the company will stay afloat, even though everyone can see the ship is all but completely sunk. The professors probably have the best chance of finding new careers, honestly, because if they could persevere in such a crap work environment, the can adapt.

Trying to form a union at AI. That's funny. It's like trying to make first class dinner reservations on the Titantic after it hits the iceberg. They are desperately looking for buyers and finalizing the plans to close down. If there is any union activity, they will close your school sooner rather than in a few months from now. They will offer you no severance at all. There may not even be a teach out, just locked doors.

Is it mean to say I am glad that the little douche that just posted is stuck with his loans for life? :D

I'm positive that you will lose your job soon! How's that for ai Pride you douche

Sorry. No sympathy. You work for a private company masquerading as higher education. This is how companies ensure the appearance of productivity. Scheduled, nonnegotiable lunches and 15-minute breaks are probably next.

I'm just going to work harder. Come on team... Let's do this!

You aren't a real college or real professors so that's why you're required to be there 40 hours.

No real professors don't have to do so because they work at reputable schools. Why don't you attempt to do the same? Or are EDMC branded or for profit schools the only thing you could achieve?

Great job winning at life.

Former students posting here, I too am a former student. I got my degree and am now working in the field I was trained in. My instructors were for the most part amazing and prepared me for professional work. Of course there were one or two duds but there are at any college or university. Obviously there are problems with EDMC but go after the federal government for not regulating an industry that should have been regulated or the EDMC board of directors, not the instructors.

I really love the student posting giving instructors career advise about being at a "sh--tyass school", apparently you weren't quite the brightest one of the litter either little one, why did you come to ai? Was it because you were too stupid or lazy to research a school online the way you look up porn with such ferocity in the class room, or was it because you were too busy gang banging during high school and your GED didn't quite cut the mustard for any other college in the nation. Technically you should thank Ai. Because of them you have a purpose, rather than trolling the internet looking for new ways to mentally abuse your significant other now you troll this website. See, we gave you purpose. If only you had put this time in your schoolimg and not been kicked out from classes that a deranged hamster could have passed.

You are all losers as professors so forming a union doesn't do anything. I hope EDMC requires you to be there for 50+ hours a week. Get a real teaching job at a real school instead of attempting to dupe students and milk a paycheck for as long as you can.

Then again you are Art Institute Professors so were never good enough to make it in your field which is why you had no choice but to teach if you wanted to make money. Obviously, you made the wrong career choice if you are in the position of losing your sh--ty teaching job with a sh--ty assschool.

Faculty work more than 40+ hours a week as is. Prepping + grading etc...Does this mean we clock out after we hit 40 hours? Sounds backwards in logic. There going to get less work out of us with that rule. 5 classes = 20hr, prepping, grading + meeting students for office hours is over another 20hr.

Edmc isn't not going under. There too tied into the department of edu and the banks. Won't happen

so the faculty will have to tell the students at the lunch hour "sorry I can't help you I am off the clock"?