I arrived in town from a long season of working on a documentary and was staying in Phoenix to recuperate, when I saw an ad for Collins College on local daytime television. I decided that I would go in for a tour. i was really impressed with the course work and curriculum and I immediately signed up for classes in a future semester. I went back to LA and did some work in some places and was paying back my loan in order to attend classes that spring. That December my advisor, whom I had been speaking with daily, stopped returning calls. She finally reached out to me while I was on the phone with the admissions office some weeks later, and they announced that the ART INSTITUTE HAD BOUGHT AND SHUT DOWN COLLINS COLLEGE BECAUSE IT WAS COMPETITIVE IN BUSINESS AND ETHICS. I went to the Art Institute for a tour and they did not know anything about film or music in the technical sense and it would be a waste of money to go there when they only offer a certificate. Collins offered bachelor degrees.