Heald College
Heald College is a for-profit, business-career college with multiple campuses in the Western United States. Prior to its acquisition by Corinthian Colleges Heald was a non-profit private College.
The college was founded[1] in San Francisco, California, by Edward Payson Heald, on August 8, 1863, and known for many years as "Heald's Business College".[2] Heald College campuses are located in 12 cities: Concord, Fresno, Hayward, Modesto, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Salinas, San Francisco, San Jose, and Stockton, all in California; and Portland, Oregon and Honolulu, Hawaii. Heald offers Associate in Applied Sciences degrees[3] and Associate of Arts degrees, diplomas or certificate, in 34 fields. Heald College has regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
In November 2009, Corinthian Colleges, Inc., purchased the Heald College's parent company for $395 million, simultaneously announcing plans to begin in 2011 offering online-only courses leading to degree programs based entirely on online-only coursework. However, Corinthian planned to retain the Heald name, as well as its faculty and staff.[4]
Heald's Honolulu campus employs 90 staffers serving a student body of 1,300. It was founded in 1917 as Honolulu Business College, later merging with Cannon's Business College in 1973, and becoming a Heald College campus in 1993.[4]
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[edit] Heald College alumni
- "Trader Vic" Bergeron, restaurateur
- Michael H. de Young, San Francisco Chronicle newspaper publisher and museum founder
- George Christopher, former Mayor of San Francisco
- A.P. Giannini, banker, founder of Transamerica and the Bank of Italy and cofounder/cocreator of Bank of America
- Fred Swanton (1862–1940) mayor of Santa Cruz, California and developer of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Lewis Publishing Company in 1892
- ^ van Ommeren 2004
- ^ "Heald College Academic Catalog". Heald College. June 2011. p. 3. http://www.heald.edu/multimedia/pdfs/Heald_Catalog.pdf. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ a b Nanea Kalani (6 November 2009). "Sale of Heald Colleges could lead to more student options". Pacific Business News. http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/11/09/story6.html. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ Edward Sanford Harrison (1892). "Biographical Sketches". History of Santa Cruz County, California. Pacific Press Publishing Company. pp. 318–319. http://books.google.com/books?id=tjwLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA318.*
- The Bay of San Francisco (and Its Cities and Their Suburbs) Vol 1. Lewis Publishing Company. 1892. pp. 473.
- van Ommeren, Alice (2004). Stockton in Vintage Postcards. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 101–102. ISBN 978-0-7385-2878-6. http://arcadiapublishing/com.
[edit] Accreditation
Heald College is regionally accredited at this time by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and covers all campuses including the one in Portland Oregon.
[edit] External links
- Heald College website
- Business schools in California
- Business schools in Hawaii
- Business schools in Oregon
- History of San Francisco, California
- Educational institutions established in 1863
- For-profit universities and colleges in the United States
- Universities and colleges in Alameda County, California
- Universities and colleges in Contra Costa County, California
- Universities and colleges in Fresno County, California
- Universities and colleges in Hawaii
- Universities and colleges in Monterrey County, California
- Universities and colleges in Oregon
- Universities and colleges in Placer County, California
- Universities and colleges in Sacramento County, California
- Universities and colleges in San Francisco, California
- Universities and colleges in San Joaquin County, California
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