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Now we've talked about ITT tech in a previous institute and many of you brought up what about the art institutes.

For profit colleges are everywhere in a massive variety of fields.

Sometimes they skirt by just barely being legal.

Whereas at other times, it's incredible they weren't caught sooner

when they barely bothered to hide some incredibly shady, questionable,

and yes, illegal activity.

Today, we're focusing on the latter.

So hello and welcome back to another episode of the corporate casket.

Today we are going to be taking a look at the Art Institutes or AI for short.

Instead of a handful of for-profits, we're going to really laser focus on the

EDMC, the umbrella that the Art Institutes as well as a few other colleges hide under.

So let's get into it. According to the Pittsburgh Press, the art institutes began in 1921 in Willis Shook's studio with only nine students.

Originally it was called the Artist League of Pittsburgh, but within two years

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