The Art Institute of California – San Diego

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
The Art Institute of California - San Diego
Active1981–2019
Presidentn.a.
Location
San Diego
,
CA
,
USA

32.778°N 117.155°W / 32.778; -117.155
Websitehttps://www.artinstitutes.edu/san-diego

History

1981 La Jolla Academy of Advertising Arts (LJAAA) later known as The Advertising Arts College (TAAC), created a new school based on the realization that most traditional college advertising or design graduates were not prepared to go to work. These graduates had acquired theoretical knowledge, but had little ability to perform hands-on tasks.

1986 The school became an accredited member of the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT).

1987 The school received approval to offer associate's and bachelor's degrees from ACCSCT and BPPVE.

2000 The Advertising Arts College (TAAC) sold to the Art Institutes system of schools located throughout North America and became known as The Art Institute of California – San Diego.

2002 The school's new 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m2) campus opens in Mission Valley, as enrollment grew to more than 800 students.

2003 Fall enrollment surpasses 1400 students in seven career-focused, creative and applied arts degree programs offered by The Art Institute.

2004 The Palette, San Diego's first culinary arts student-run dining room, opens to the public.

2019 On March 8 the San Diego campus officially closed.

References
  1. Douglas-Gabriel, Danielle (3 March 2017). "Art Institute campuses to be sold to foundation". Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  2. "Inside Higher Ed's News". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  3. Moore, Daniel. "EDMC completes sale of schools to Dream Center". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  4. 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.
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