The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: Former Anti-Productive Policies

These are a few policies the school changed. When you see what they changed from, you will be flabbergasted!

***There is a policy that the school has put out this week that photographers are not allowed to do artistic nudes in the photography studio at the school.  This is news to me and won't do a bit on it since it is very new information, but it does beg the question:  Why does this "art" school forbid artistic nudes, one of the most widely known works of art in the photography industry?

1.  Most pieces of equipment from the equipment cage can be checked out for 24 hours.  It use to be that all of the equipment could only be checked out for 4 hours at a time.  I have spoken to a few film/video students who attended while this policy was in place. 

This essentially restricted the equipment to school grounds and placed an almost impossible 4 hour time limit on producing quality videos/films.

(Could you imagine if this was essentially your only outside set?)

 

2.  The computer lab is open the whole time the school is open.  When the school first opened, the computer lab was only open during non-class hours.  Students only had before or after class time to work on their projects or homework.

This made it very difficult for the students with projects that required a lot of time to get anything done.  The school doesn't require you to have a computer at home to work on homework or projects, so students were slaves to an extremely short time frame to get their work done. 

This policy was changed because students complained about it...something I personally can't believe they had to complain about in the first place.

(The computers have been short a mouse or two for over a year.  It was pretty annoying.)

 

3.  No video games on the computers in the computer lab.  The school's computer lab is for school related work. However, for a few quarters, there were a handful of students who pretty much lived in the computer lab playing video games.  They installed them on the computers and were there for hours upon hours.  It seemed to me that some students were going to college just to play computer games with their new friends.

The worst part about this, however, is what the room smelled like.  It smelled like dirty feet and nachos.

Eventually, the school banned video games from the computer lab.  However, as of the Summer 2014 quarter, I saw students installing and playing games, but not to the extent of what it was a while back.

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