American InterContinental University
American InterContinental University (AIU) was built up in 1970 in Lucerne, Switzerland by American couple Jack and Helen Barnette of Atlanta, and was first known as the American Fashion College of Switzerland. The school was seen as an American degree rewarding establishment in 1971, at first offering accomplice and four year school trainings starting in 1974. In 1976 the Switzerland-based school opened a grounds in Atlanta and, in 1978, the Lucerne grounds moved to London and changed its name to the American College for the Applied Arts. By 1978, the school had about 300 understudies, and began to develop its course offering past configuration to zones, for instance, business. The school opened a couple of various grounds in resulting years. Steve Bostic bought the school in 1996 and changed its name to American InterContinental University. In 2001, AIU was gotten by its present proprietor, Career Education Corporation, which is an exchanged on an open business sector head of income driven schools.
Branch grounds were set up as takes after:
• Atlanta - Buckhead, Georgia grounds 1976
• London, UK grounds 1978
• Los Angeles, California grounds 1982
• Dubai grounds 1995
• Atlanta - Dunwoody and South Florida grounds 1998
• Online grounds 2002
• Houston, Texas, 2003
Today, AIU has more than 15,000 understudies and offers a broad assortment of student and graduate degrees in undertakings, for instance, business, IT, criminal value and style plan. More than 80 percent of AIU understudies go to AIU Online, an electronic online grounds that passes on degree programs 100 percent on the web.
Grounds
An American InterContinental University office in Westchase, Houston, Texas, United States.
AIU at present has four grounds in the United States.
Atlanta, Georgia (arranged at 6600 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd. in Sandy Springs)
Taking after the June 2009 cementing of the AIU Buckhead and AIU Dunwoody grounds into AIU Atlanta, the new grounds encountered a foremost rebuild. AIU Atlanta's grounds now incorporates an industry-current legitimate sciences lab; a virtual weapons planning test framework (FATS) lab; drawing studio; committed math, science and forming labs; and as of late upgraded studios for style plot, media creation, visual correspondences and inside setup.
Houston, Texas[8] (arranged at 9999 Richmond Ave., in the Westchase range)
The AIU Houston building was to a great degree hurt by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. It was upgraded, and an extraordinary re-opening celebration happened in February 2009.
Weston, Florida[10] (arranged at 2250 N. Exchange Pkwy.)
This grounds is gotten ready for conclusion
Online grounds
The online framework began in 2001 however was seen as an alternate grounds in 2002. George P. Plant administrator at this moment serves as president of AIU Online, which is presently seen as the central justification for AIU. The online grounds work environments are arranged in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago.
Past Campuses
London, England (arranged at 110 Marylebone High St.). AIU London ended up being a bit of Regent's University London in April 2013.
Los Angeles, California (once in the past arranged at 12655 W. Jefferson Blvd.)
Dubai, United Arab Emerates (known as American University in Dubai since 2007)
On February 18, 2008, American InterContinental University reported plans to gradually close down its Los Angeles grounds. Dr. George Miller, president of American InterContinental University, refered to low understudy selection at the Los Angeles grounds as the clarification behind this choice.
Accreditation
The association at first got accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 1987. SACS put the school on post trial supervision in December 2005 and restored AIU's probation in 2006 for powerlessness to take after various Principles of Accreditation. On December 11, 2007, CEC reported that SACS had emptied AIU's probation and that the school's accreditation was toward the day's end in incredible standing. In 2009, AIU successfully hoped to change accreditation from SACS to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).School powers felt this was best consequent to the lion's offer of its understudies are served through its Internet-based grounds which is arranged in the HLC geographic area. SACS and HLC are among the six regional guaranteeing affiliations saw by the U.S. Agency of Education. The U.S. Division of Education, Office of Inspector General investigated the Higher Learning Commission's decision to assert accreditation of AIU considering the examination of the commission's gages for measuring credit hours and framework length. An associate evaluator general communicated in the report, "This action by HLC is not to the best point of interest of understudies, and raises question about whether the approving decisions made by HLC should be relied on by the Department of Education while offering understudies to get quality preparing through the Title IV some assistance with programing." NCA-HLC president Sylvia Manning responded that this charge was "weak" in light of the way that it focused on a singular accreditation issue including a single school. SACS president Belle Wheelan concurred with NCA-HLC, calling the OIG report "alarming" and underscoring that American InterContinental University's accreditation under SACS had been in "awesome standing."
Despite HLC, the University's business programs earned accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs in 2011. In 2013, AIU's Master of Education (M.Ed.) program got the chance to be one of the fundamental totally online undertakings to be yielded basic two-year accreditation by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). The AIU London was authorized by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education until it was devoured by Regent's College London in April 2013. In June 2008, The Quality Assurance Agency close a review dispersed in May 2005 considering an examination of the London Campus in 2004. This report had seen that at the date of the Agency's overview in 2004, there were "real worries concerning the academic standards being achieved."[27] Following productive attempts on the London grounds to cure does not have, the QAA saw that, "Since the audit QAA has been given information that exhibits that suitable move has been made by the American InterContinental University in light of the disclosures of this report. Consequently the audit was shut down in June 2008."
Scholastics
AIU offers Associate, Bachelor's and graduate degrees in a variety of fields. Various instructors are specialists in their field and draw from their actual experience to improve classroom rule and calling get ready. AIU offers classroom heading in individual at the ground grounds and online by method for the Virtual Campus, or a blend of both. The AIU Virtual Campus gives online understudies access to course materials furthermore practically every one of the merriments of a traditional grounds, for instance, a library, livelihood organizations, understudy clubs and cash related aide information. The Virtual Campus was named "First class" by the Computerworld Honors Program in 2009. In 2009, My Unique Student Experience (M.U.S.E.) was familiar with different courses to supplement learning outside the classroom. M.U.S.E. is an electronic instrument that offers access to additional, savvy learning options that offer understudies some help with appreciating course material in a way that connects with them.[29] The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), some time prior the Career College Association, saw AIU's watchman association, Career Education Corporation ("CEC"), for M.U.S.E. with its 2010 CCA Innovation Award.
In 2013, AIU dispatched a selective adaptable learning development called intellipath™ to pass on data driven modified learning. The stage overviews understudies' available understanding of a subject and after that tailors the sort and demand of the lessons showed to meet their individual needs. In April 2014, AIU brought intellipath into its MBA in Management, making AIU's task the principle MBA in the U.S. driven by adaptable learning innovation.
Rankings
American InterContinental University was set 29th in 'Manual for Online Schools' 2012 Top Online College Rankings.American InterContinental University was situated #8 on the internal Department of Education examination obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting that shows 133 income driven schools are so dependent on native money that they would be slighting a law proposed to neutralize profiteering without a loophole that disallows GI Bill help to element commitment military, with more than 96% of wage starting from these subject financed programs.
Selection approaches
AIU has an open-enrollment technique and, some time recently, savants have examined the school's understudy selecting practices. One strange teacher told The Chronicle of Higher Education: "In case you can breathe in and walk, you can get into the school." In July 2008, past laborers recorded a case attesting that the school's confirmations sharpens cheated government permit and credit programs. The cases against selection practices were discharged in 2012.
Prominent graduated class
Zee Avi, Malaysian entertainer
Ronald Brise, Haitian-imagined U.S. lawmaker, Florida House of Representatives
Eddie Gaven, American soccer player
Tatiana Santo Domingo, U.S.- imagined Colombian-Brazilian socialite
Zohra Sarwari, Muslim maker
Porsha Williams, American unscripted TV star and vocalist.
