Dream Center faces lawsuit over Art Institutes’ accreditation claims – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Four Art Institute students in Chicago have filed a lawsuit against Dream Center Education Holdings, claiming the nonprofit committed fraud by failing to notify students it had lost institutional accreditation at four Art Institute campuses in January.
Dream Center — which agreed to purchase most of the Art Institute college chain from Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp. in March 2017 — was notified on Jan. 20 that accreditation was temporarily removed from four Art Institute campuses while the sale was under review.
Those schools were The Art Institute of Illinois in Chicago and Schaumberg, Ill.; the Art Institute of Michigan in Novi, Mich.; and Art Institute of Colorado in Denver.
A Chicago-based regional accreditation agency, the Higher Learning Commission, instructed Dream Center to publicly post the new accreditation status and notify students of the removal.