Brooks College

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Brooks College is a system of two for-profit colleges in Long Beach and Sunnyvale, California. They offer career college programs in a variety of areas. The school in Long Beach is best known for its fashion design and fashion marketing programs (and their ads on late-night television). These schools are owned by the Career Education Corporation and accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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[edit] Controversy

Brooks College was the subject of an unfavorable examination of for-profit trade schools in the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Three recent graduates who were in the top of their class were interviewed. They were unable to find jobs in the fields in which they were trained for and they blamed Brooks College for making misrepresentations to them regarding placement statistics among other things.[1]

[edit] School Closure

In June 2007, Career Education Corporation announced that it will close both campuses of Brooks college. The Sunnyvale campus is scheduled to close in March of 2008, while the Long Beach campus will continue until March of 2009.[2] Shortly after this announcement, San Francisco's Academy of Art University announced that Brooks College students who enroll at the academy can transfer up to 66 units for BFA programs and up to 33 units for AA programs.[3]

The property in Long Beach being leased by Brooks College was sold to the California State University, Long Beach Foundation for future use as CSULB student housing. [4] Brooks College will remain at the location until its closure in March 2009.

[edit] References

  1. ^ For-Profit College: Costly Lesson Career Education Corporation, CBS News, January 30, 2005
  2. ^ Career Education Corp Will Close 3 Colleges It Has Tried to Sell Chronical of Higher Education, June 29, 2007
  3. ^ Academy of Art University website
  4. ^ Press-Telegram, August 15, 2007

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