The Art Institutes' guardian organization, Education Management Corporation (EDMC), is
headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In November 2014, EDMC was delisted from the NASDAQ in the midst of budgetary troubles, claims, and examinations.
In 2011, the Art Institutes got more prominent open investigation with the arrival of the Frontline narrative, Educating Sergeant Pantzke. In the narrative Chris Pantzke, a resigned Iraq war veteran talked about the absence of handicap administrations at the school. As per Mr. Pantzke and Frontline "'Being an officer, you would prefer not to stop, you would prefer not to surrender or come up short,'" he clarified. Anyhow in the wake of doing his own particular examination, Pantzke inferred that the degree he was seeking after wasn't 'justified regardless of a great deal more than the paper is justified regardless of.' And he felt he was "discarding citizen cash" by utilizing GI Bill stores."
EDMC's claims incorporate charges of extortion and forceful understudy recruitment and also misrepresentation identified with budgetary help qualification.
History
The Art Institutes framework was made in 1969 when Education Management Corporation (EDMC) obtained The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, which was initially established in 1921. Beginning in 2000, The Art Institutes started offering four year college educations and, in 2001, propelled its separation training project, Art Institute Online, which started offering single man's and non-degree programs on the web.
All through the 2000s, The Art Institutes extended through the securing of existing workmanship universities and the foundation of new Art Institutes. In 2001, there were around 20 grounds of The Art Institutes; this developed to pretty nearly 30 areas in 2006 preceding arriving at 50 Art Institutes in 2010.
Starting in August 2011, EDMC has been included in an United States Department of Justice examination and claim affirming both illicit recruitment rehearses by EDMC schools, including The Art Institutes, and fake receipt of $11 billion in government and state budgetary help cash. As of May 2013, the claim was uncertain. A 2011 US DOJ report asserted EDMC "made engine compartment 'room' style deals society and has made selecting and enlisting new understudies the sole center of its remuneration framework."
Since 2012, The Art Institutes schools have encountered a reduction in the quantity of new understudies enlisting, seeing enlistment numbers drop by more or less 20 percent between the second quarter of the 2012 monetary year and the begin of 2013. EDMC has ascribed the drop in enlistment to restricted access to Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students and the monetary retreat. In February 2013, EDMC declared arrangements to proceed with a three-year-old educational cost solidify at The Art Institutes. The organization has promised to keep up the current expense of educational cost through 2015, in a push to spotlight on understudies.
In May 2013, a government judge in Pennsylvania rejected an offer to reject a claim against EDMC by a previous EDMC worker. The claim affirms that the organization and its subsidiaries occupied with a plan to expand benefits from monetary support projects regulated by the U.s. Branch of Education. The complainant for the situation, Jason Sobek, who filled in as a confirmations executive for EDMC in Pittsburgh from June 2008 through November 2010, asserts that the firm distorted data given to the Department of Education that showed they were in consistence with the credit programs' qualification necessities. In confirmation that gave the premise to the bring down court's choice last October, Sobek affirmed that EDMC worked a "deliberately made and broad revenue driven training plan [in which] respondents have duped the United States and its citizens out of a great many dollars as governmentally supported understudy advances and stipends."
In June 2013, EDMC declared that its President John Mazzoni would leave powerful July 14, 2013, following 27 years at the association. Charles Restivo, Group Vice President, would turn into the Interim President of The Art Institutes.
Schools and Programs
Starting 2013, there are give or take 50 areas of The Art Institutes in the United States and one area in Canada, and additionally the Art Institute Online, with an aggregate of 70,000 understudies. The Art Institutes schools represent about a large portion of all EDMC schools and more than 50% of EDMC's aggregate understudy populace.
The Art Institutes offer programs for master's, lone ranger's and partner degrees, and in addition non-degree authentication programs, in ranges of center including culinary expressions, plan, design and media expressions. EDMC offers grants for Art Institutes understudies, including $100 million for the year finishing June 30, 2013.
Outstanding graduated class
Outstanding graduated class of The Art Institutes incorporate tennis player Venus Williams, Pulitzer Prize winning photographic artist Carol Guzy and Ben Vaughn, the host of the Food Network program Health Inspectors, who all moved on from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Moreover, 2009 Project Runway hopeful Logan Neitzel moved on from The Art Institute of Seattle, 2010 Top Chef challenger Tiffany Derry moved on from The Art Institute of Houston, and Pulitzer Prize–winning picture taker Martha Ria and illustrator Matt Bors moved on from The Art Institute of Pittsburg
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