The Art Institute of California – San Diego was a for-profit art school in San Diego, California. It was briefly operated as a non-profit institution before it closed in 2019. The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by Education Management Corporation. EDMC owned the college from 2000 until 2017, when, facing significant financial problems and declining enrollment, the company sold the Art Institute of California – San Diego, along with 30 other Art Institute schools, to Dream Center Education, a Los Angeles–based Pentecostal organization.[1][2][3] Dream Center permanently closed the San Diego campus location on March 8, 2019.[4]
 The Art Institute of California - San Diego | |
| Active | 1981–2019 |
|---|---|
| President | n.a. |
| Location | , , 32°46′41″N 117°09′18″W / 32.778°N 117.155°W |
| Website | https://www.artinstitutes.edu/san-diego |
References
edit- ^ Douglas-Gabriel, Danielle (3 March 2017). "Art Institute campuses to be sold to foundation". Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ "Inside Higher Ed's News". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ Moore, Daniel. "EDMC completes sale of schools to Dream Center". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
- ^ Radin, Danielle (March 8, 2019). "Students Blindsided by Art Institute of California Campus Closure". NbcSanDiego.Com. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
Students are outraged they were not given notice that a San Diego higher education institute is shutting down. On Friday the Art Institute of California in Mission Valley closed for good. "It kind of blindsided everybody," said student Randy LaVea. Students were wondering why they weren't told of the closure until a few days before it happened.