The Art Institute of Pittsburgh (AIP) is a nonprofit institution owned and operated by Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH), LLC. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and emphasizes design education and career preparation for the creative job market. It was founded in 1921.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh has a 32% graduation rate and a 20% student loan default rate.
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History
Founded in 1921, the school began as a for-profit independent school of art and illustration, producing a number of notable artists including watercolorist, Frank Webb, animation producer and director, 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, Education Management Corporation (EDMC) acquired The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and it became the model for creating additional schools in the Art Institute system.
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-cutting measures resulting in larger classes, fewer student services, and a standardized curriculum throughout the system. This standardization removed the need for resident experts and curriculum developers at the individual colleges. In 2013, Payscale.com found that the Institute provided the worst return on tuition of all institutes of higher learning surveyed. According to disclosures the college is required to provide to the Department of Education, overall graduation rates fell to 39% in 2012, while graduation rates among Pell grant recipients were still lower at 27%. The graduation rate fell substantially further in 2014 from 39% to 24%. New owners took control of EDMC in 2015, as EDMC entered into a debt-for-equity swap with its current owners giving up the majority of their stock to creditors with whom they broke loan covenants.
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Location
On March 27, 2017, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh moved to 1400 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. During its growth phase it relocated several times, expanding and broadening the curriculum, but then later reduced offerings during its contraction period. In 2008, it briefly became one of the largest arts colleges in the United States (factoring online enrollment). However, in 2010 enrollment began to drop, in part due to federal lawsuits. The school purchased a historic landmark building at 420 Boulevard of the Allies in 2000, but sold to a Chicago developer in 2014. The Art Institute then moved to a more industrial building in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, or "the Strip."
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh's online division is a semi-autonomous division of the Art Institute. It offers degree programs and non-degree diploma courses in a variety of creative fields.
Practices at the online division have been called into question in recent years as whistleblowers within the company sued the Institute. They were later joined by the United States Department of Justice. 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 education ($3,460). Since then, however, dramatic drops in enrollment have led to massive layoffs in the online division.
Licensing, accreditation and memberships
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh is accredited by The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (since 2008).
Notable alumni
Since its founding in 1921, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh has grown to a community of more than 13,000 students and 55,000 alumni. Many have found success in the art, design, advertising, motion picture, entertainment, business, fashion, and culinary industries worldwide.
J. Howard Miller (1939), an American graphic artist who painted posters during World War II in support of the war effort, among them the famous "We Can Do It!" poster, frequently misidentified as Rosie the Riveter.
Frank Webb (1946), an American watercolor painter.
Frank Kelly Freas, an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists" and he was the second artist inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Martha Rial, an independent photographer based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the winner of 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees.
Roman Verostko (diploma in illustration, 1949), an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art.
Tom Wilson (1955), an American cartoonist.
Matt Bors, a nationally syndicated American editorial cartoonist and editor of online comics publication,The Nib.
Leon Levinstein, an American street photographer best known for his work documenting everyday street life in New York City from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Shane Callahan, an American film and television actor.
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: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species, with writer Don McGregor.
Garrett Mason, an American Republican politician.
Jennifer M. Smith, DBE, JP, DHumL, MP,the Premier of Bermuda from 1998 until 2003. She was the first premier who was not a member of the United Bermuda Party.
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