The Art Institute of Colorado
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The Art Institute of Colorado (formerly known as:Colorado Institute of Art) is a for-profit university whose parent company is owned in part by Goldman Sachs.[1] The current population of the student body is about 2,100 undergraduates.
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[edit] History
The school was established in 1952 and founded as a private college for arts and crafts. In 1956 John Jellico, a former Assistant Director of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, joined the staff and introduced the Commercial Arts program. In 1960, John Jellico took over management of the school.
In 1975 Education Management Corporation (EDMC) of Pittsburgh bought out the school and became a branch of the Art Institute System of Schools. A year later Interior Design and a Photography program were added. In 1977 the school moved from 16 West 13th Avenue to 300 East 9th Avenue in Denver.
A short lived program was the Music and Video Business program. It was started in 1987 and the first graduating class was in 1989. Some of the Art campuses still offer a video production program.
A Culinary Arts program was started in 1993 and a satellite campus at 675 S. Broadway is used for the Culinary Arts program. It also contains the school-owned Assignments Restaurant.
In 2000 the school moved its main campus to 1200 Lincoln St. keeping the old location as another satellite building, primarily devoted to the Industrial Design department. A long-term arrangement for student housing was made at 5785 E. 8th Ave. All four buildings are still used by the school today.
Although the school's official name is now The Art Institute of Colorado (AiC), it is sometimes referred to by its old name Colorado Institute of Art (CIA).
[edit] Current degrees and diplomas offered
Diploma
- The Art of Cooking
- Baking & Pastry
Associate of Applied Science Degrees
- Culinary Arts
- Baking and Pastry
- Graphic Design
- Web Design & Interactive Media
- Photography
- Video Production
- Kitchen and Bath Design
Bachelor of Arts Degrees
- Culinary Management
- Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
- Design Management
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Retail Management
- Graphic Design
- Industrial Design
- Interior Design
- Media Arts & Animation
- Web Design & Interactive Media
- Visual Effects & Motion Graphics
- Photography
[edit] School Presidents
- John T. Barclay 1976-1980
- Cheryl Murphy 1980-1991
- W.C. (Bill) Bottoms 1991-1996
- David C. Zorn 1996-Current
[edit] References
- ^ Jeremy Dehn, "Degrees of Debt", New York Times, 11 October 2010
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