http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2015/08/19/black-arts-the-800-million-family-selling-art-degrees-and-false-hopes/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29168378)

After graduating with a political science degree from Vassar in 1981, she took classes at the family’s university for a year, then got a law degree from the University of San Francisco (on the strength of her J.D. she now asks to be called “Doctor”).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29168472)

These people are just slightly worse versions of EVERY university administrator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29168495)

http://observer.com/2006/05/nyu-columbia-make-a-mint-on-real-estate/

The problem comes, according to City Project, when these private institutions buy property and take them off the property-tax rolls, depriving the city of funds to pay the Police Department, the Fire Department, the public schools and universities, and all the other things that are going to keep the value of that $1 million apartment from plummeting into a 1970’s redux. All told, if private education facilities were taxable, the city would be $386 million a year richer, the report finds—pocket change for a city with a $50 billion budget, perhaps, but an amount that’s growing by over 30 percent a year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29168549)

take that money and buy real estate in one of the highest appreciating markets in the country, which as an educational institution is exempt from property tax....

and then get students to borrow another $300 million per year to pay the loan payments on those properties, because they were leased back to the school....

all the while never being liable for any of the debt.

jesus, it's brilliant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29168597)

http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/7054-just-how-much-is-academy-of-arts-vintage-car-collection-worth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29169217)

extremely common for closely held businesses to do this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29169307)

I know of one instance where GSA effectively kicked the agency which was in the building out thinking they could get more money from private businesses, which they didn't. it had been sitting empty for at least two years when someone told me about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29173403)

and guess why this shit will stay in business? cause over half the fuking students are NOWAGS from asia, willing to fork over retarded money for a shit arts degree so they can be in the land of HANDSOME.. whenever i see these shit studetns its all nowags with their fuking art bag walking arnd like NOWAGS do

amerikkka is the biggest fuking scam on earth, nuke this shithole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29169300)

Actually, Academy of Art “degrees” really are worthless. Yes, they are “accredited,” but the accreditation is by a *different organization* than is used by real colleges and universities (anything from CCSF to SF State to UC Berkeley to Stanford etc.). So let’s say you have a degree from A of A. Later, you decide you might like to get an MFA ar other higher degree at one of the real universities. They will laugh at you. “What? You think this A of A thing is a degree?”

From their perspective, it’s as much a degree as a roll of paper towels.

It’s tricky at best to get work with a Art degree, but if you MUST HAVE a degree in art, try to get into the SF Art Institute or other legitimate art school; or even study art at UCB or SF State etc.

Sure, people actually learn stuff at A of A, but their options for graduate training are very small indeed.

http://www.missionmission.org/2008/06/27/is-your-academy-of-art-university-diploma-worth-a-shit/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29169441)

amerikka is a fuking scam thanks to conturds and lack of regulations, this is what u get faggots

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29170435)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwHPzd2s_vg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043036&forum_id=2#29173606)