Enrollment in 2019 was the highest the school had ever experienced, he explained in a phone interview. Then, in September, the Rhodes family, which owned the for-profit school for nearly 80 years, transferred ownership to the nonprofit SVA Alumni Society. AICAD represents nearly 40 art schools throughout the US and Canada. Some art schools have not survived. As ARTnews reported in 2025, American art schools are heavily dependent on international students; stringent new restrictions on immigration in the Trump administration have spelled major trouble.