Once more the slackers with poor performance keep their jobs at Ai international Culinary schools! EDMC monitors this? Well read along. Over my years with Ai as an instructor I have always been there for my students, made it to campus 1 hour before any of my class start time. Never had an idea survey with a score below 4.2. It has been very common for me and other few dedicated ones to see other instructors walk into class 20, 30 even 1 hour later than class was scheduled to start. I am talking about whole quarters of total disregard for any written rule in the adjunct letter of appointment. As usual the directors and deans hear no evil and see no evil, as they demonstrate once again that this company is made of people that use a different set of rules for each one of us. Who cares if we give 100% to our students, right? I was not let go today, some good friends of mine were though, and this is another sign of how Ai is getting worse and worse for those seeking a real culinary education. I know that professionally these Chefs had a real career before making the step towards education. They are being replaced by " Chefs "that have ZERO proven record, perhaps that graduated from Ai, so they kind of know the curriculum. They "teach" classes that are supposed to last 5 hours and many turn out to be 3 or even less. They are really going to find qualified professional Chefs that can teach 10 hours a week or 10 segments per year with this new BS. Perhaps hire some more of your graduates with ZERO experience! Maybe give the wines and spirits class to a chef that knows absolutely nothing about wine or beer, but that has an MBA, he can read the book though! Hopefully he or she isn't abstemious.
The ones with many years of real work experience to teach to our culinary students are being put aside. EDMC will magically find so called Chefs that have a resume that says that they had a catering business, and turn them into instructors. Perhaps they will not say that the catering business was really run from their home kitchen. I know this is reality already in one campus. That is what Ai is now offering to students, people that can't really cook or know how to work in the culinary field. People that be in a culinary class and tell them to "follow what the recipe says" then turn around and say let's go home, we're done nothing else to learn here.
EDMC you make me sick, charging $425 or more a credit hour and giving these students the worse culinary education they can pay for.