Why are any of you so desperate to keep EDMC / brands afloat? How do you justify your allegiance?
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The Fart Institutes are a f u c k I n g joke
It seems you need to know the reality that your school can't offset the many irresponsible schools that your school is associated with, sorry but it looks like sooner or later your school will also go down with the others, no matter how good it is.
None of you know the realities you obviously don't work for AI. You are all wrong, out professors and chefs all have Masters degrees and current knowledge of what the industries want. Don't know where your students studied but there are jobs galore in culinary, and the other degrees we teach. If someone came to college and skated through they are not going to ever work anywhere. But our student are talented, skilled and employed! Sorry your school did such a poor job.
I agree that chefs need culinary training. The training at AI was horrible and very expensive. Quality of product was pathetic, no equipment and you were more likely to find a chef instructor in the faculty office or on the smoke deck rather than in the kitchen. Adjuncts are recent grads with no experience and AI training. The curriculum wasn't thought through and it will be one of the first programs to get cut. Any student with talent didn't learn their skills at an AI. They get put on a pedestal and used for marketing and pr.
'Why would anyone need a culinary degree to be a chef, just work your way up" World does not work that way. You need a 2 year degree to get basic training just to get your foot in the door of a real restaurant kitchen. Then you spend years working your way up. Otherwise, you will remain just a low paid line cook for the rest of your life. It's a skill like any other. You need training from someone and no restaurant is going to pay for training.
"Guess you've never been to a graduation, or entered a restaurant where one of our students " Yes, I not because none of the culinary students get jobs in CA. In fact, they were routinely told to leave the state when they graduated and return once they got established in some flyover state. If a student did get a job as a chef in CA it became headline news and he was immediately put into a recruiting commercial.
Actually I have been to an Ai graduation, felt more like a team building ceremonies at one of those get rich quick milt-level marketing schemes.
Why would anyone need a culinary degree to be a chef. With or without a degree, you start at the bottom and WORK your way up. Why pay some schmuck?
In fact I have... Pathetic culinary skills that are outdated. No rep in the industry will hire a soul from the Media Arts and Animation program... Again, outdated and poor program with sub-par "professors". I could keep going on and on... but grinding you down is a waste of time!
The few examples of great students primarily had exposure, and wealth of experience before getting to AI. AI can take no credit for their success. Let me clear this up.... Talent is not a gift... It is hard work, focus and perseverance. Any one, and I mean any one, can learn more from YouTube than they can from AI.
With that statement, it is highly known that many of the "help" actually use video tutorials to teach from and never lift a finger. The art industry is fed up with AI and pawning off bodies for them to retrain!
AI is the laughing stock of all art trades! You are responsible for that!
That is true since the students dropped out before graduation due to loans, ignore the plight of the students in favor of select students instead of equally, and brushed it all off as part of a job, I feel totally sorry for the topic starter for calling the obvious flaw in logic. So I do agree with the dude below right?
Guess you've never been to a graduation, or entered a restaurant where one of our students were a chef, been to a hotel one of our students redecorated, used a piece of equipment redesigned by one of our students. I feel sorry for you if you don't get it.