Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

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Active	1968–2018
Founder	Mark. K. Wheeler
Academic staff	113
Administrative staff	100+
Students	1,000+
Undergraduates	1,000+
Location	Fort Lauderdale , Florida , United States 26°06′00″N 80°07′19″W / 26.100°N 80.122°W / 26.100; -80.122
Colors	Red and Black
Affiliations	The Art Institutes ACF ACICS
Website	www.artinstitutes.edu/fort-lauderdale

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale is a former for-profit art and culinary school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida which closed in 2018. The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by Education Management Corporation (EDMC). EDMC owned the college from 1973 until 2017, when, facing declining enrollment, multiple fraud charges brought by faculty and students, and accreditation issues at some of its schools, the company sold the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, along with other properties, to Dream Center Education, a Los Angeles-based Pentecostal organization.^[1][2][3] Dream Center Education planned to operate the school, along with others it acquired, as a non-profit. The plan proved unsustainable, with Dream Center permanently closing 18 Art Institute schools, including Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, at the end of 2018.^[4]