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Capella University was originally established as The Graduate School of America by Dr. Harold Abel and Stephen Shank in 1993. Shank was the former CEO of Tonka.Abel, formerly the president of Castleton State College, Central Michigan University, and Walden University, [3] [4] became the first president of the institution.
The degree is a 40 credit program with an emphasis on public management, budgeting and cost-benefit analysis. Graduates work on historical and hypothetical scenarios to learn effective ways of dealing with issues that arise in government, non-profits and business. Courses include ethics, statistics, finance and organizational planning.
Penn State Great Valley, founded in 1963 to provide graduate engineering programs to employees of local businesses, was housed in a rented school building in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and was known as the King of Prussia Graduate Center. In 1974, the center began offering courses off-site at area businesses.
DeVry was founded in 1931 as the De Forest Training School in Chicago, Illinois. [2] School founder Herman A. DeVry, who had previously invented a motion picture projector and produced educational and training films, named the school after his friend Lee de Forest. [2]
Centre Gallery, established in 1984, is the only fully student run, non-profit, exhibition space in the state of Florida. Exhibitions run in two-week durations during the Fall and Spring and three-week durations during the summer. These exhibitions are attended by over 4,000 visitors each semester. [131]
The CPM is a comprehensive management development program based upon a selected set of competencies. The CPM is awarded upon completion of a CPM program accredited by the National Certified Public Manager Consortium. CPM graduates come from public, private, and non-profit career fields.
National University is the second-largest private, non-profit institution of higher education in California by total enrollment. The average age of its students is 32. [40] Roughly 23,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students are currently enrolled [3] with nine percent of the student body also in active military service. [41]
According to U.S. Senate testimony by Arlie Willems, retired reviewer for the Iowa Department of Education, the Iowa Department of Education denied Ashford University's request in 2006 to offer an online Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) on the grounds that the program "was more a collection of discrete courses than a cohesive program, was ...