I originally was writing this as an e-mail, then thought that if I sent this to my same point of contacts at my school, nothing would be done – like before…

There’s a magical disconnect between the management, staff and instructors at the International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) that should be brought up with the Federal Department of Education.

Since it has a business mind, it is what’s making students fail. Especially since chopping the extra whole week of time out (this was a huge deal for me since I was already on thin margins)- without surveying any students. The way the schedule used it be was 5 1/2 weeks for one class, then 5 1/2 weeks for two other classes, than two weeks off, year around. Now there’s only 5 weeks for one class, then 5 weeks for the other two, then only one week off. Year around. IADT figures less time to graduate=more federal aid money quicker=who cares about anything else (students come first in this situation? – a ripoff of their slogan). This should be sent to presidents of IADT as well, oddly all IADT management contact information is MISSING from the academy website. The contact page doesn’t list them, just everyone else.

I tried dropping out of this class (would of been my first one my entire degree program) so I could retake it next term (more time, more understanding), as always I was advised not to. I’ve been saying it for months between other classes, not understanding the first Flash class or JavaScript fully. Please notice less than half the students passed in the Unit 1 IP for my current class – Multimedia Design II (advanced Flash + ActionScript 3).

I’m not getting a quarter as much as I should out of these good classes and it’s due to an 80 hour work week (running a startup company). The advisor said to do an hour a day, thats not enough. I worked on the unit 1 IP for 4 hours, to find out you have another IP posted somewhere else. Trash. I start on the one you have posted on your site, and somehow my Flash tracing of a picture of mine got deleted from within the file working on it till 5am last night. Thus I’m just taking a screenshot of me viewing the swf file (I didn’t publish it again before it was too late) and pasting it into my Flash file. This will have to do.

I’ve done about 12 hours of homework so far (in 3 days) and have not a damn thing to show for it. This is just Unit 1, LOL (we’re almost on unit 3).

Us students really need to stop being “pushed” through classes just to pass (Chivonne, this message is for you, my student advisor, great advice!), because it’s now just biting us . We MUST understand what we are doing. People don’t understand the material. The work is very unprofessional. I’m sure Professor Leach can vouch for me on this knowing the quality work he creates and other entry level people in the workforce should be.