Several critical positions removed today leaving the school without key directors. Admissions layoffs earlier this year, and a permanently MIA school President... It looks like Art Institute of Tampa could close soon given the absence of key leadership....
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Oh you poor poor dear, believing that "we ain't got nothing to worry about as long as they can't even manage to get more than a few of these 'basement dwellers' together here and there."
First of all, your sentence structure makes me cry. I pray you aren't an educator. The level of unintelligent jargon spewing from your post is enough to send chills down my spine.
Second, last time I checked these "basement dwellers" have made enough of an impact to influence many innocent, unknowing, and interested people to re-think their approach. I assure you, we have the numbers. Our voices are not something to be trifled with. We will have justice.
Third, many of us do not believe we are entitled to anything. We all work, we all pay bills, we all have families we need to take care of. Many of us work multiple jobs just to get by because it is our responsibility to pay our debts. Many of us have no choice BUT to move back in family. There is no shame in that. What's shameful is being put into that situation in the first place and shame on anyone who believes it's weak to ask family for help. Most families don't have the means to help in any other way except to open their doors and provide family a place to stay.
We fight for the right to be able to have a future, for our children to have a future. We fight to put an end to this crime. We fight to ensure no other person goes through the hell that this institution has put us through. We're unable to do anything with the debt this fraudulent school has put us in. This school has been blacklisted by so many employers that now we are forced to pay for a degree we can no longer claim we've received. It's unsettling that even those who don't follow the arts KNOWS about the Art Institutes' and EDMC's horrific reputation. And you speak of HONOR? Where's the honor in lying to those eager to learn? Where's the honor in seeing potential students as nothing but a bonus on someone's paycheck? Where's the honor in turning a student into a slave for attending this fraudulent institution? You speak of honor? HONOR is the sacrifices mothers and fathers make working tirelessly to pay their bills and put food on the table for their children. HONOR is in the voices of those fighting for the right to be free of the debt the fraudulent institutions put onto their heads. Our parents taught us honor. Clearly yours did not. If they did, your stomach would be churning in disgust at what these institutions have put the students through.
You claim there's nothing to worry about? Know this, don't mistake our silence for cowardice. Don't believe for a moment that we are unorganized.
Wow, the Brainless Corporate Fraud from Florida got his fat rosy red spanked real hard. You want some more? Keep on posting dumb--s.
WHICH POSITIONS WERE LET GO? CAMPUSES???????
Unneccessary employees? Students deserve customer service from qualified professionals. The person that posted from Florida is an insensitive loser on the team of stealing student's money. Students deserve quality education, employees deserve to be treated with dignity and integrity should be placed in the right place.
Unneccessary employees? Students deserve customer service from qualified professionals. The person that posted from Florida is an insensitive loser on the team of stealing student's money. Students deserve quality education, employees deserve to be treated with dignity and integrity should be placed in the right place.
Ya'll losers that poses no real life skills, other than swindling! Good luck getting employment with Ai on your resume!
Who/what were the eliminated positions/people?
I love it! Tears in my eyes! It's a slow hemorrhaging death but it's finally happening!
Goodbye losers! Go learn a real trade, aside from ruining young financial lives
Poor teacher gonna be working at Walmart for the holidays.
What a pity.
Lazy entitled staff and teachers!
What a bunch leeches stealing federal funds. Can't hack it in the real 🌎!
OK J-1ndr, if you don't like the word shill, try this description instead. You're an incompetent, no talent corporate apologist. You're a nobody whose actions have led The Art Institute to this sorry state.
You're responsible. Look around you. The place is falling apart. You and all your no-talent buddies did this. The school was once a thriving, well respected program. You burned it to the ground and buried it.
Well done Sh---For-Brains.
The campuses have to rely on their reputations. I teach at At the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and the college has strong ties to the community and a reputation of almost 50 years of successful graduates. I can't speak about any other campuses but I hear good things about the Miami campus and know the President there. She has helped build an international student body on a campus that has SACs accreditation and enrollment that now surpasses AIFL. As for complaints I think some students who feel mislead have legitimate arguments. EDMC made terrible mistakes when the board was controlled by Goldman Sacs. They pushed for fast growth that compromised who we were as a company. I only hope that now EDMC and KKR will be forced to right some of those wrongs. In the meantime it is my responsibility as a professor to remain focused on our students and help them achieve their career goals. To keep the curriculum industry current and maintain a positive image with the community and employers. Overall I think we continue to do this with very little support and direction from EDMC, but that has to change because they are steering the ship. As for our grads I know many are doing well in a challenging economy. If there is one positive observation I can say it is that our alumni are the best employers. They come to Port Reviews and I regularly get contacted about job openings. They know what to expect from our grads because they were once students here too. That says volumes that we are still doing something right. If student have complaints about their education, it is the responsibility of the faculty to listen and provide them with the tools to be successful. Isn't that why we teach? ...and it is a responsibility I take very seriously. So let's stop calling out the posters on here that feel slighted and figure out how to solve the problems they are pointing out.
Yeah lazy... far from it. I learned more in the field of design from making pages on MYSPACE than I did in the 6 part time years at AI. I work 2 jobs... neither in my field of study. If you work for AI and Actually think they provide an education worth that amount of money, you are crazy.
see earlier statement about talking big online...
worst case scenario, if enrollment numbers don't happen the schools have to be rebranded or move away from brick and mortar to online. We will have to change our structure and adapt to new rules like we always have. This illusion that these people have that all of our campuses are going to shut down... crazy talk from desperate people.
"it appears to be just a few entitled students here and there whining about their debt - nothing to worry about. They talk big online and to media, but when it comes to actually walking the walk they expect someone else to do the work for them. Just a bunch of lazy children whose parents never taught them how to honor their agreements- but then again, maybe that is the problem in the first place"
Excuse me, but let's talk about how entitled I really am (or any other student who had the unfortunate experience of attending an Ai). My entitlement has led me to work countless hours to get into a job in my field of study. Mind you, I did this without using Ai on a resume because employers have laughed me out of interviews once they saw or heard mention of this crumby school being listed below my name. Don't even get me started on how horrible the instructors and staff were and how much I learned from the University of Google Searches. MY entitlement is earned due to my own personal efforts, not Ai's lack of education standards, accreditation, or their worthless degrees.
Let's talk about how lazy I am. I work two jobs, with a side hobby to bring in extra income, never go out to bars or music venues, etc. I shell out over $1,300 dollars a month to pay back these loans (over half of this in interest alone) when I could be buying a home, replacing my 11-year-old car, vacationing, or being a so called "basement dweller" playing video games because I would have a free moment to do so. In my own basement, by the way, because I am a hard working adult who also pays rent in my own place. Mmmk thanks.
And finally let's talk about honor. How about providing honorable service and education to these students you're tricking with your propaganda and lies and arbitration clauses? Don't the teachers have to honor their agreement by providing a level of service that is worthy of the agreement you are having us make? So excuse me while I go "honor my agreements" and slave away while you sit comfortably in your room making fake promises and filling the future generation with hopeless dreams and lies.
ha….There is necessary staff at AI? I thought they were all YouTube based classes!!!
Even if one protester shows up and convinces 5 people that will have a negative effect. Then more students will quit.... no one owes the employees of AI federal funds that they are stealing from the federal government!
As far as entitled... "indr" knows that their days are numbered and that the video game students are playing AI them like a boss.
Can we say " arbitration clause"?
Only thing holding up your suspenders!
wow - "students just whining about their debt"!!! No concern that they are being manipulated into taking more debt than they can possibly handle and getting substandard education. I thin Erica must have written that post. Heartless and and not concerned about QUALITY of education.
Oh no not the dreaded shill word zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So says the corporate shill.
Yeah, we are good in FL. Just a restructure to clean house a bit and weed out the less-necessary staff. Happens all the time, but people are too sensitive about things like this at the moment due to the teach outs at other locations.
The biggest concern from the higher-ups is that we may get protesters at the open houses like there were at some other campuses, but really it appears to be just a few entitled students here and there whining about their debt - nothing to worry about. They talk big online and to media, but when it comes to actually walking the walk they expect someone else to do the work for them. Just a bunch of lazy children whose parents never taught them how to honor their agreements- but then again, maybe that is the problem in the first place...
In any event, we ain't got nothing to worry about as long as they can't even manage to get more than a few of these "basement dwellers" together here and there. I think there were some at Chicago, but where did they go? Back to playing them video games in grandma's basement I bet lol.
Even if we only convince 5 out of 50 kids at the open houses, that is enough to keep us in business. People on here worry too damn much. Watch- this weekend's open house we will probably get 10 new students easy-peasy.
They are still taking in students and having open house events. As long as that happens no doors are closing.