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The Scarritt College for Christian Workers started as the Scarritt Bible and Training School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1892. Belle Harris Bennett, a Southern Methodist woman missionary leader from Richmond, Kentucky, presented the idea to create a training school for missionaries in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. [3]
In 2015, Kaplan paid $1.375 million to the Massachusetts Attorney General's office to resolve complaints that Kaplan engaged in "unfair or deceptive practices designed to induce enrollment of students" including "harassing sales tactics and false and misleading representations" in the operation of the Kaplan Career Institute campus in Boston ...
[15] [16] In the years prior to its sale to Purdue University, Kaplan University's parent company, Kaplan Inc., closed or sold several schools, including Kaplan College (a primarily brick and mortar vocational school, not to be confused with the online university that became Kaplan University in 2004), [17] and Kaplan Career Institute, which ...
A Kaplan University campus in Maine. Kaplan University (KU) was a private online for-profit university owned by Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company.It was predominantly a distance learning institution, maintaining 14 ground locations across the United States.
Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) is a school district that serves the city of Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County. [2] As of the 2020–21 school year more than 80,000 students were enrolled in the district's 162 schools.
Hudson Maddux, 14, in a white shirt at center, poses with his family and Metro Nashville Public Schools leaders and staff in the MNPS board room on Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2024 in Nashville, Tenn.
Kaplan, Inc., purchased the American Institute of Commerce, a business training school founded in 1937, and renamed it Kaplan College in 2000, later renaming it to Kaplan University in 2004. [ 5 ] In 2000, Kaplan acquired Quest Education Corporation , which served 30 schools in 11 states. [ 6 ]
Grayer joined Kaplan in 1990 as regional operations director, and held several titles before becoming president and CEO in July 1994. He was named Chairman and CEO of the education company in February 2002.(The Washingtonian, June 2005) When Grayer first became CEO of Kaplan in 1994, the company was an $80 million test preparation business. [3]