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The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Motto	The College for Creative Minds
Blazon	Nonprofit establishment^[one] ^[2]
Active	1921–2019
President	George Sebolt
Students	431 ^[3]+ 2,940 at Ai-Online
Location	Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States 40°26′14″N 79°59′59″W / forty.43722°N 79.99972°Due west / 40.43722; -79.99972 Coordinates: 40°26′14″N 79°59′59″W / 40.43722°North 79.99972°West / 40.43722; -79.99972
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Dream Center Instruction Holdings
Website	artinstitutes.edu/pittsburgh

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh was a private college in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shortly before endmost in 2019, information technology was purchased by Dream Eye Pedagogy Holdings (in plow a partition of The Dream Center, a Christian non-profit 501(c)(3) organisation in Los Angeles, California, established in 1994)^[one] ^[2] Information technology was located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and emphasized design education and career preparation for the creative job market. It was founded in 1921 and closed in 2019.^[4]

Ai-Pittsburgh was function of the system of Fine art Institutes which includes Ai-Online. The school close its doors in March 2019 after being placed into federal receivership.^[4] At the time of its closure, Ai-Pittsburgh was facing removal of its accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) due to concerns over the executive leadership.^[5]

According to the National Center for Teaching Statistics, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh had a 29 percent graduation rate and a 20.9 percent educatee loan default rate.^[vi]

History [edit]

Founded in 1921, the schoolhouse began equally a profit-based independent schoolhouse of art and illustration, producing a number of notable artists including watercolorist Frank Webb, animation producer and manager Rick Schneider-Calabash, and the late science fiction illustrator Frank Kelly Freas. The Institute now specializes primarily in design disciplines and culinary arts. In 1968, Teaching Management Corporation (EDMC) acquired The Art Establish of Pittsburgh, and created boosted schools the Art Plant organisation.

In 2008, it briefly became i of the largest arts colleges in the United states (factoring online enrollment). Still, in 2010 enrollment began to drop, in part due to the falsification of records.^[vii] Whistleblowers within the company sued the Institute due to practices at the online division, and were later joined by the United States Department of Justice.^[8]

Since the 2009 public offering of EDMC, and the subsequent majority position by Goldman Sachs, emphasis throughout the EDMC system shifted increasingly toward shareholder profits with cost-cut measures^[9] resulting in larger classes, fewer student services, and a standardized curriculum throughout the arrangement. This standardization removed the need for resident experts and curriculum developers at the private colleges.^[10]

Enrollment in the online division and EDMC's other online programs ballooned from 7,900 in 2007 to 42,300 in 2012, due in large part to practices that devoted more per-student expenditures to marketing ($4,158) than on didactics ($3,460).^[11] Since then, withal, dramatic drops in enrollment have led to massive layoffs in the online sectionalization.^[12]

In 2013, Payscale.com found that the found provided the worst render on tuition of all institutes of higher learning surveyed.^[13] According to disclosures the college is required to provide to the Department of Education, the overall graduation rates fell to 39% in 2012, while graduation rates amidst Pell grant recipients were even so lower at 27%.^[14] The graduation rate barbarous essentially further in 2014 from 39% to 24%.^[15] New owners took control of EDMC in 2015, every bit EDMC entered into a debt-for-disinterestedness swap with its current owners, giving up the majority of their stock to creditors with whom they broke loan covenants.^[16]

In 2017, Didactics Management Corporation reported that it had sold the existing Art Institutes to The Dream Center Foundation, a Los Angeles-based Pentecostal organization.^[17] ^[xviii] The sale was complete in Oct 2017.^[xix] Dream Center would subsequently blame EDMC for providing inaccurate acquirement and cost projections at the fourth dimension of the auction, resulting in a substantial operating deficit that forced the Art Institute into federal receivership in January 2019.^[20]

In March 2019, after the collapse of a last-ditch try to sell the school, the Fine art Institute of Pittsburgh announced it would permanently terminate operations.^[four]

Location [edit]

On March 27, 2017, The Fine art Institute of Pittsburgh moved to 1400 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh. During its growth phase, information technology relocated several times, expanding and broadening the curriculum, simply after reduced offerings during its contraction period. The school purchased an historic landmark edifice at 420 Boulevard of the Allies in 2000, only sold it to a Chicago developer in 2014. The Art Constitute then moved to its more industrial edifice in the Strip Commune of Pittsburgh. In 2019, the Fine art Plant of Pittsburgh went out of business organization.^[21]

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division [edit]

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh's online division was a semi-autonomous segmentation of the Art Establish. It offered degree programs and non-degree diploma courses in a variety of creative fields. The online sectionalisation was shut downwardly alongside the Strip campus location.^[22]

Licensing, accreditation and memberships [edit]

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh was accredited past The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (since 2008).^[23]

Notable alumni [edit]

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh has more than than 55,000 alumni.^[24]

Matt Bors, a nationally syndicated American editorial cartoonist and editor of online comics publication, The Nib.
Shane Callahan, an American film and television actor.
Julian Michael Carver, American sci-fi and horror novelist.^[25]
Frank Kelly Freas, an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than than 50 years. He was known every bit the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists" and he was the second creative person inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.^[26]
Paul Gulacy, an American comics artist who worked for both DC and Marvel Comics. He is best known for drawing one of the first graphic novels, Eclipse Enterprises 1978 Sabre: Wearisome Fade of an Endangered Species, with writer Don McGregor.
Leon Levinstein, an American street lensman best known for his work documenting everyday street life in New York Metropolis from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Garrett Mason, an American Republican political leader.
J. Howard Miller (1939), an American graphic artist who painted posters during Earth War II in back up of the war effort, amongst them the famous "We Can Do Information technology!" affiche, frequently misidentified as Rosie the Riveter.
John Prentice, an American cartoonist and comic-book artist most widely known for his work on the syndicated comic strip Rip Kirby. (Did not graduate.)
Martha Rial, an independent photographer based in Pittsburgh. 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for Spot News Photography, for her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees.
Jennifer M. Smith, former Premier of Bermuda 1998–2003; the first premier who was not a member of the United Bermuda Party.
Roman Verostko (diploma in analogy, 1949), an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art.
Frank Webb (1946), an American watercolor painter.
Tom Wilson (1955), American cartoonist and creator of the Ziggy comic strip.
Rick Schneider-Calabash, award-winning blitheness producer, writer, director for Walt Disney Studios.

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