The Art Institutes Employee Reviews for Instructor

"Adept screen designer and web developer with instructional experience"

What do you like about working at The Art Institutes?

"Active engagement working with many students to identify and solve problems."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Working as an instructor is highly rewarding and it's wonderful to work with students and see them grow as professionals."

What don't you like about working at The Art Institutes?

"Not being able to work full time at the art institute makes for high instability."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To provide a robust online hybrid education for their students."

"Much was promised, little delivered."

What do you like about working at The Art Institutes?

"The students and faculty are amazing, creative, bright, and talented."

What don't you like about working at The Art Institutes?

"Severe homophobia in Student Services staff. Duplicitous behavior by senior and executive management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't encourage faculty to invest creative energy in new courses unless you actually contract with them to do so. Using adjunct faculty to write curriculum and then suddenly have no classes, for them is really unethical. Word is getting out."

"Interesting people to work with, pay could be better."

What do you like about working at The Art Institutes?

"I loved the students, they were very interesting people. I liked working with artists and creative people, both faculty and students."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a good experience part time, I don't know if I would want to be in this environment full time. I have applied for part time positions since leaving and have not been asked for an interview. I guess when you are gone you are really gone."

What don't you like about working at The Art Institutes?

"They can be a bit disrespectful of the students. I think that most of the students do work hard and want to be successful. The administration seemed to focus only on the more challenging, less motivated students. The goal seemed to be to control, rather than motivate the less mature students to succeed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would appreciate a bit more respect. I approached the Registrar with a question, and she said, abruptly, What do you want! The IT director screamed at people who brought coffee into the computer rooms. There are more civilized ways of communicating."