AI corporate is moving several blocks from the downtown office into the pittsburgh campus building. The campus has shrunk some due to enrollment and several floors are "offline", It looks like they will be bringing around 70 employees and will be... — read more
AUO training
Is phenomenal! We are the best
Get used to life as you know it.
So, if you were one of the folks who decided to stay aboard the sinking ship. Just realize, this will be your life as long as you know it. EDMC will continue to make cuts every quarter just to meet budget numbers. This is what they have done for the... — read more
Storms calmed down
Don't be lulled into a false sense of security. Still plenty of changes coming....
AmericanDread and other Concerned People Should Join "I am Ai"
To those Art Institute teachers (and former teachers) who hate what has happened, please join the students of "I am Ai" who are seeking justice .....................https://www.facebook.com/?_rdr=p#!/groups/aistudents/?fref=nf
I quit!
If you are an instructor at Ai or any for-profit for that matter, I urge you to seek employment elsewhere. A lot of teachers like to think of themselves as separate from the shady business dealings that go on in the offices of admins and corporate... — read more
With regards to bringing back previous employees...
Another shady and corrupt department: Compliance Department. With the lack of proper training and the none existence of solid written policies, managers hand pick a few enrollment reps who they decide to keep and the remaining are let go based on... — read more
EDMC getting ok reviews on Glass Door
Looks like the latest people posting on Glass Door are relatively happy with EDMC......................................http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Education-Management-Corporation-Reviews-E6305.htm
Please post your genuine (non-sarcastic) opinions regarding where the art institute brand is headed over the next year.
Base your opinions upon what you see happening at your campus.
You wonder why this company is crumbling? Executive Committee AiNYC given HUGE bonus to stay with company...what happened to everyone else?
First rounds of '60-day notices' have begun in the Big Apple. Secretaries get the word they are due to be let go. Meanwhile, in other bs news, the EC has been offered a rather hefty bonus to stay with the company till their campus shuts down. Does... — read more
Another bites the dust
SDOA Ai Washington resigned today. I'm sure he received a gentle push. Hasn't hit plan in so many starts there are not enough fingers and toes to count. And...I'm pretty sure he and the new CD don't get along so well...tragedy is what will become of... — read more
What a Joke
EDMC iis the laughing stock of education and so are the people who think EDMC is going to be around forever lol too funny
Promise land of education
So much negativity on this site. I would like to bring some positivity back. I am a new SA at AUO and its so exciting. I have no doubt that Gavlik, Cliff Nittle & Huff will lead this school to the Promise land. Thank you! It's going to be awesome. — read more
Good News! We turned a profit last quarter, our stock is up to .09 cents!
We're in the money! Now we can pay of the billions of dollars in debt we have. Or, maybe just buy one bagel for each school. Cream cheese is extra.
AUO
Great. Great things are currently happening at AUO. We are on the rise! The new leaders are great. WE ARE!!!!!!!!!!! AUO
I'm the real Camden Kid
May I have your attention please? May I have your attention please? Will the real Camden Kid please stand up? I repeat, will the real Camden Kid please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here.. Cause I'm Camden Kid yes I'm the real CK All you other... — read more
AI layoffs this mornjng
High school department laid off all but 2 directors. Said that they could reapply for 10 open spots at which I'm sure a much lower salary. I wonder if that will even make the news wire...
Stock
Like I said, it will be bbackdown to 7 cents in no time. Its at 8 cents now.
I apologize
I am sorry for wasting everyone's time by spewing forth bland and pointless rhetoric. All of my posts that were outdated did not allow me to adequately view what is truly going on. I now believe that EDMC is taking the correct steps to rectify they... — read more
Accreditation at art institutes?
How can the art institutes keep any accreditation when they have cut significant numbers of their faculty, reduced student support and most recently cut student contact hours from four hours per class to just three so they can pay adjuncts less? Oh... — read more
BMC and GE
I am sure that JR will have a conference call to let everyone know that they need to call and not email or write anything when it comes to the new GE regs. He always wants to be sure he can have some deniability by being able to say, "I never said... — read more
AUO bait and switch on new SA pay
Gavlik tells us that there will be a pay bump with the new position. Interview, get re-hired, get pay bump. Today offer sheets were laid on desks. Base level pay of $40k ARs in the new SA position... No pay bump. Sign it or don't have a job. There... — read more
Road to Recovery
Hooray! The stock is now up $.04! EDMC will be saved, I can't wait for all you naysayers to shut your mouths, we will be on the correct path and right the ship now!
Gainful Employment (factual information) - see link
http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1512.html
Another big SUO PGH salary cut...who's next?
2 weeks ago our campus lost a 6+ year top producer making over 100K for "compliance". Welp, yesterday it happened again, a great guy who is battling brain cancer and also was making 100K wS walked out. For what you ask? COMPLIANCE! sad part is these... — read more
Calling them out
CC got her job from banging the boss. MC got his job because CC wants a fall guy. The end.
What it takes at EDMC
Suckiing cock
Todd Nelson, EDMC and UoPX Crook in Charge
Take a close look at page 30 of this document. It's written by Todd S. Nelson when he was the CEO of EDMC in 2011. How is this man not in prison? His story should be in American Greed, except he didn't get... — read more