Before I dropped out of The Art Institute of Las Vegas, there were four classes I would have had to take to finish. The following is a list of them and the role they played in deterring me from graduating:
When I was a flight attendant for Comair, a lot of us noticed something was going down when pilots were quitting left and right. Soon after, the company closed its doors. There were many reasons why those pilots and many other employees were quitting – things within the company grew… Continue reading
(The video version of this blog post if you would rather not read all of this. This post does contain more information, however. Direct link to video: http://youtu.be/jhc08cXiKyc)
These are a few policies the school changed. When you see what they changed from, you will be flabbergasted! ***There is a policy that the school has put out this week that photographers are not allowed to do artistic nudes in the photography studio at the school. This is news to me… Continue reading
Here is an example of what the school expects out of its [film] graduating students:
The Art Institute of Las Vegas issues Starter Kits to new students. These are meant (I guess) to help students get acclimated to the school and give them some supplies to ease the study-struggle. Students do have the option to turn down the Starter Kits; however, I do not recall… Continue reading
Today is October 13th, 2014. Most of the country is celebrating the Federal holiday of Columbus Day. Others are celebrating Native American Day among other holidays. In Nevada, however, we have Nevada Day. For The Art Institute of Las Vegas, this means students and staff do not receive today as… Continue reading
Recently, an instructor was fired from The Art Institute of Las Vegas. At the time of the instructor’s firing, the instructor was teaching at least five classes. I’m not 100% clear on the incident (I try to not post anything I haven’t dealt with first hand), but the collection of stories I’ve gathered have matched… Continue reading
Another big reason I have taken to posting these posts on AILV is because of the only class I was really looking forward to in the last year: Short Form Media Production.Over a year ago, I took a class called Short Form Scriptwriting. In this class, we wrote 15 page scripts. These… Continue reading
You can see the article I pulled information from here. An investor is upset with the Education Management Corporation (EDMC), the corporation that owns The Art Institutes. Why? Well, EDMC’s stock has been plummeting. It isn’t because business is slow. It’s because their business is poor.