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Article: Career; colleges; learn,; earn For-profit education institutes grow as recession-battered workers retool
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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By JOEL DRESANG
At a ceremonial opening of the Bayshore campus of Bryant &
Stratton College last week, Peter Pavone alluded to the ballooning
popularity of career colleges.
Nine years ago, Bryant & Stratton had 123 students in Milwaukee,
said Pavone, the college's director of Milwaukee campuses. This
fall, local enrollment will be around 2,000, including about 100 at
its new site, a 37,000-square-foot suite with a capacity for 750
students.
"We've had a nice story," Pavone told a small gathering in the
school's library, overlooking Bayshore Town Center.
Away from the celebration, down the hall from Pavone's remarks,
Michael Anderson was installing equipment for the school's
information ...