Education Management Corporation (EDMC) is one of the largest for-profit education providers in North America, serving over 125,000 students across 110 campuses. The author works for EDMC at The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago conducting admissions interviews. EDMC owns several educational institutions including Argosy University, Brown Mackie College, South University, and The Art Institutes. EDMC caters to diverse student populations and different generations by emphasizing hands-on learning, career preparation, and flexible learning options.

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Education Management Corporation
Zaneshia Barnes
Capstone Experience in Integration & Strategy | B6028-T A01
Faculty: Roberto Castaneda
Argosy University
Education Management Corporation
The business sector position investigation I dissected was
Education Management Corporation is among the biggest
suppliers of private post-optional training in North America, in
view of understudy enlistment and benefits, with 110 areas in
32 U.S. States and Canada. EDMC's central station are situated
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Education Management utilizes
more than 23,000 full-time, low maintenance and aide
workforce and staff, and serves roughly 125,560 understudies as
of October 2013. (EDMC 2013) EDMC possesses and works
four instructive frameworks Argosy University, Brown Mackie,
South University and The Art Institutes. I right now work for
EDMC the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago division as a
collaborator executive of confirmations. In my position it
requires that I call and meeting potential understudies who have
express enthusiasm for the College, helping them figure out
whether the school is a solid match. Since the position of aide

2. executive of affirmations is exceptionally objective orientated
every collaborator chief of confirmations reports to an
executive of affirmations and our senior executive of
affirmations.
To pick up a comprehension of EDMC's The Illinois Institute of
Art Chicago market position, esteem suggestion, and upper
hand, I chose to meet my senior chief of affirmations Ms. Jan
Martin. As senior executive of confirmations Ms. Martin help
with related showcasing planning and bolster exercises that are
vital to the affirmations group's execution. Ms. Martin is in
charge of accomplishing new understudy and begin rate
anticipates her confirmations staff. As indicated by Ms. Martin
EDMC's The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago target clients are
assorted, including understudies from all through the U.S. also,
numerous outside nations. The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago
point of view understudies are spurred, innovative and
enthusiastic. EDMC produces promoting plans that bolster
request transformation and candidate lock-in. Their advertising
methodology guarantees that they stay consistent with all school
benchmarks, moral gauges, and consistence with all government
state and accreditation prerequisites.
EDMC's The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago client portion's
particular needs and needs are typically identified with the
chance to create configuration and specialized abilities that set
them up for imaginative yet employable vocation fields. One of
the benefits of EDMC's The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago is
that they offer an assortment of arrangements in which
understudies can take their classes. A few understudies take
their whole program on the web. The project that offers the best
adaptability for understudies is known as the Plus system.
Understudies can take classes online and in the classroom. Not
at all like conventional schools’ understudies wouldn't need to
hold up until their sophomore, or junior year before they take
their five star identified with their significant, understudies will
take classes identified with their major from the very beginning.
EDMC's promoting methodology likewise comprise of internet

3. showcasing, TV publicizing, advertising, business improvement,
deals exercises and secondary school delegates who go to doled
out regions and present data about the school to deliver interest.
EDMC's client sections range from Matures conceived before
1946, Boomers 1946-1964, Generation X 1965-1979,
Millennials 1980-2000 and Post Millennials after 2000. EDMC's
The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago has a demographics of
understudies that longing a vocation change, monetary security
or innovative hands-on projects in the regions of study like
media expressions, outline, culinary expressions and style.
EDMC's The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago understudies look
for our projects since they accentuate innovation, hands-on
undertaking base work, and in addition scholarly and business
aptitudes. Develops conceived before 1946 qualities devotion,
penance, experience, similarity and group, control and quality is
critical to them. Boomers 1946-1964 worth intensity,
assurances, being characterized by their occupation, sparing
time, understanding that they may need to work longer than
anticipated and making more positive encounters. Era X 1965-
1979 qualities dependability, addressing specialists, for the
most part are somewhat skeptical, finding the right vocation.
Era X'ers are the most miserable of representatives today so
they have a tendency to make a considerable measure of
showing with regards to jumping. Era Xers additionally live for
now anyway they are get ready for tomorrow. Millennials 1980-
2000 and Post Millennials after 2000 worth independence
additionally appreciates functioning as a group,
Millennials/Post Millennials are idealistic, they are focused and
occupied at a youthful age, desire acceptance, self-regard and
compliments. Millennials/Post Millennials have enormous
objectives however are lost on the best way to acquire them,
and they like a consultative way to deal with addition things
that are interesting to them.
Generally, as various eras grasp distinctive styles of music and
design statistical surveying exhibits that they likewise tend to
grasp marginally diverse qualities. To put it another way, when

4. they measure choices they are prone to do it from to some
degree distinctive generational viewpoints like the one recorded
in the past passages. EDMC's The Illinois Institute of Art
Chicago is a private craftsmanship and outline school. This
means it is an inventive communitarian group that shares the
needs, needs and vitality of their understudies. The school
praises inventiveness and understudies are encompassed by
different understudies with comparable intrigue and profession
objectives. Likewise, the instructive experience is extremely
involved which implies that understudies gain numerous
aptitudes through activities that regularly look like work they
may really accomplish for a genuine customer.
EDMC's The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago offers a particular
educational programs composed by an expert consultative board
of trustees. Understudies are instructed the requirements and
patterns of the business and take in the abilities that businesses
need to enlist. This helps EDMC's understudies to make a
consistent move from school to work. Understudies work with
expert evaluation innovation which helps them to learn versatile
programming applications that will be utilized as a part of their
vocation field. One thing that EDMC prides its self on is their
own consideration. Every understudy must experience a meeting
to decide reasonableness to the school, taking into account their
profession advantages.
Customized consideration is additionally given by the
understudy money related administration division, understudy
undertakings vocation administrations and through the school's
staff and organization. Understudies additionally get individual
consideration from experienced workforce and staff who can
motivate, guide and tutor them. A large number of EDMC's
workforce are presently working or have worked in their field
and they regularly impart their stories to understudies about
their customers and how they tackled their configuration and
advertising issues which further upgrades understudy
improvement. The way that staff are working in the field

5. likewise furnishes understudies with systems administration
open doors inside their point of view industry. At last vocation
help and profession administrations office is one of the signs of
the Art Institutes. Both offices get ready understudies to acquire
vocation in their field of study. Also in light of the fact that The
Art Institutes has more than fifty areas over the US their across
the nation profession administrations system will interface
understudies with an innovative boss upon graduation.
Some other key focuses that separate EDMC's The Illinois
Institute of Art Chicago from its rivals is the diligent work of
its vocation administration office. The basic role of the
profession administration division is job help. They will
probably help graduates in acquiring all day job help.
Profession benefits additionally assists with resume and meeting
readiness. This helps understudies build their certainty and
guarantees that they are prepared for prospective employee
meetings. Vocation benefits additionally has a portfolio survey
occasion and welcomes managers to meet The Art Institute's
graduates, graduates are given a stage to highlight their abilities
and work. This occasion works much like an opposite
occupation reasonable for understudies, in the morning it's for
bosses just toward the evening it's for understudy's
family/companions.
The general workforce slant that revenue driven exclusive
schools are confronting at this moment is the manner by which
productive vocation will affect their understudies however
above all their shareholder’s overall revenue. The state lawyer
general is concentrating on EDMC's understudy enrolment
strategies, graduate job insights, graduate capabilities and
accreditation results, and understudy loaning hones, among
different matters. To meet the principles of Gainful
Employment' directions universities would need to demonstrate
that graduates' understudy credit obligation trouble by and large
does not surpass thirty percent of their dispensable income or
twelve percent of their whole profit. The Gainful vocation
decision will contrarily affect revenue driven establishments,

6. and just non-degree programs at open and philanthropic
organizations yet in particular it's understudy body that
utilizations government financing to pay for their training. "By
the Department of Education's own confirmation, "roughly 1
million understudies will be uprooted by this guideline, if it
became effective, and completely half of all projects subject to
the principle will fizzle". (www.ed.gov 2014)
EDMC has been proactive with the beneficial business
administering approaching over their heads. The organization
has chosen to be exceptionally straightforward with the
prerequisites of the GE directions. EDM has unveiled
subsequent to 2010 data about middle obligation to pay data,
expense of educational cost and charges, course books/supplies
and food and lodging recorded independently, understudy
degrees of consistency, graduate arrangement rates and
profession open doors recorded by name that the project readies
the understudies to enter. This data has been recorded on the
schools site and special material.
A portion of the workforce inclines that the association needs to
deliver are adjust to the profitable livelihood administering, and
building up an arrangement that gives the data that the
government requires to point of view understudies. Other
revenue driven foundations are encountering the same difficulty
and are committed to meet the profitable job arrangements built
up by the government also. The as of late framed controls have
required numerous revenue driven foundations including EDMC
to cutback representatives, concentrate offices and cut spending
plans. To get ready for workforce 2020 EDMC will need to beat
numerous difficulties. Their difficulties are both inside and in
addition remotely. To begin EDMC ought to concentrate on
making positive representative inspiration, since workers must
have a voice and feel that they are esteemed to administration
and to the organization.
Administration that makes a workplace that gives consolation
and advances inspiration as a rule have high efficiency and a
significantly higher confidence. I as of late read an address by

7. business head honcho Charles Munger and what I truly
appreciated about Mr. Munger's address, is the point at which
he talked about the principle of brain science. He expressed that
generally as we as a whole need to increase "common
knowledge by inquiring as to why when speaking with others
about everything, we ought to dependably incorporate why
regardless of the possibility that it's conspicuous as the
communicator. Explaining to individuals why helps them to
comprehend it better and helps the recipient to consider it to be
more essential which will make the collector more prone to go
along. Regardless of the possibility that they don't comprehend
your reason, they'll more prone to agree". (Munger C.1994) I
can genuinely identify with the why since it's the manner by
which I work how I want to be overseen and it's another
incredible way pioneers can spur and draw out the best in their
representatives.
Resources
Charles Munger 1994
www.frankvoisin.com/2012/03/01/munger-a-lesson-on-
elementary-worldly-wisdom-as-it-relates-to-investment-
management-&-business
EDMC (2013) http://www.edmc.edu/About/
United States ex rel. Washington et al. v. Education
Management Corp. et al., Civil No. 07-461 (W.D. Pa.)
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/August/11-civ- 1026.html;
http://www.nacacnet.org/issues-
action/LegislativeNews/Documents/USAvEDMC.pdf
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