Students left dangling as Art Institute of Charleston shuts down

Charleston Post and Courrier ^ | Jul 23, 2018 | Paul Bowers

[The_Media_never_lie]

The rise and fall of the Art Institute of Charleston took just 11 years, carrying with it the aspirations of hundreds of young artists — and leaving some of them struggling beneath a mountain of debt.

The for-profit chain of colleges opened its Market Street location in April 2007 amid fanfare from local political leaders, including then-Mayor Joe Riley, who had invited the school to train workers for the hospitality and restaurant industries.

[redgolum]

Here is the explanation I have been given over the years.

“Why would I (as the employer) pay to train someone who will go to work for someone else?”

Training is a huge investment with limited return. Handing that burden to the employee is cheaper.

[wally_bert]

I know I don’t.

The best I can manage are stick people.

Being partly color blind doesn’t help.

[j.havenfarm]

So sad. Perhaps they can transfer and take up gender studies at the local university.

[freedumb2003]

>>Perhaps they meant Culinary Arts? Otherwise this story makes no sense.<<

No, they mean acting, music, drawing, etc.

90% of those folks spend their lives waiting tables.

[wally_bert]

Barney Miller still holds up.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Until last year the Art Institutes were owned by EDMC, a scum-sucking bottom-feeding scam operating out of Pittsburgh.

One of their top execs is married to your favorite RINO, Susan Collins.

[freepertoo]

I attended The Art Institute of Pittsburg. Paid my way and used some student loans. Only went 18 months but great education.

[freedumb2003]

>>Perhaps they can transfer and take up gender studies at the local university.<<

In my day OPPOSITE gender studies took up nearly 100% of our time in college.

But we had declared majors like accounting, engineering and the like. Something to fill in the empty time ;)

Nowdays such pursuit will probably land you in front of the Men-haters Feminazi Kangaroo Court.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Training is a huge investment with limited return. Handing that burden to the employee is cheaper.

Thanks to student aid programs they are handing it to the government, which means you and I pay for it. Too much of today's business practice involves shifting costs onto somebody else's P&L.

MBA's are ruining the world.

[Vermont Lt]

The Art Institutes are scams. They are for profit enterprises whose success is based on their bottom line, not the student results.

My daughter went to look at one of these, and she left halfway through the presentation.

Formal Art school is much more difficult than most people realize. You CAN come out a working artist but it takes a ton of talent....and even more work.

[freedumb2003]

>>Barney Miller still holds up.<<

I was just grabbing off the top of my head. There are many shows that still are great. But so any more that aren’t. And damn near everything (but not all) since the 90s.

Friends and Seinfeld never even got a smile from me — just stupid and childish (and too New Yawk) IMO.

[Vermont Lt]

Not exactly true.

Like most things back in the day, they apprenticed for a while. So, very few people went to college. But I digress.

A formal art education is a lot more than just sitting in a room painting.

For example, a graduate level course in ceramic glazing is as much a chemistry course as it is an art course.

I don’t disagree with the ultimate outcome—jobs are scarce and the aspect of being a starving artist is real. But formal art education goes back centuries.

[wally_bert]

I never cared for either show either.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Loans to students should be endorsed by the school. Then loans would be harder to obtain. Let the endowment pay loans that are not repaid by the student.

[Responsibility2nd]

Remember ITT Tech?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute

Another scam.

The US Dept. of Education moved in and shut them down.

Great.

So why don’t they do this for the thousands of other scam colleges and universities?

Today. Now. This minute.

[freedumb2003]

>>Formal Art school is much more difficult than most people realize. You CAN come out a working artist but it takes a ton of talent....and even more work.<<

Too many watched the movie “Fame.” “Oh, if I just wish it and work harder I will be a HUGE STAR!!”

Yeah kid, bring me some fries with that.

(Note: “Fame” should never have been remade and certainly the remake was ghastly).

[MGunny]

The US Military is a great way to start off.

[4yearlurker]

My son in law went to Art School in Pittsburgh for almost 5 years. He now works for PennDot rebuilding bridges. He is still paying his student loans every month.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So why don’t they do this for the thousands of other scam colleges and universities?

See my post above. Susan Collins' husband worked for them. No doubt lots of other well-connected deep staters were sucking from this teat as well.

[Mears]

Avoid all .com schools to be safe.

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