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Career Education company history timeline

1995

In July 1995 CEC added Brown Institute of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, and Allentown Business School of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

1996

1996: CEC enters field of culinary arts with purchase of Western Culinary Institute.

It was 1996, and he says things were already different from when he went to vocational school a decade earlier.

1997

In the fall of 1997 CEC announced plans to issue 2.85 million shares of stock on the NASDAQ exchange for the purpose of repaying debt.

1998

The IPO was launched in early 1998, and raised more than $45 million for the company.

Scoring a Coup with Le Cordon Bleu: 1998

1999

The first United States programs would be offered at CEC's Brown Institute campus in Minnesota, where the new Midwest Culinary Academy was set to open in January 1999, and later at other locations.

The company's acquisitions continued in the spring of 1999 when McIntosh College of New Hampshire was bought for $5 million and Briarcliffe College of New York was purchased for $20.6 million.

2001

A new program, "Save Our Students" (S.O.S.), was launched in 2001 to further increase this figure.

The year 2001 also saw CEC open a new branch of the Katharine Gibbs Schools in Philadelphia.

2005

Career Education: History and Future by Kenneth B. Hoyt, 200 pages, 2005, National Career Development Association.

2008

18 Kemple, J & Willner, C.J. (2008). Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood.

2009

12 See, for example, Kelly, S. & Price, H. (2009). Vocational education: A clear slate for disengaged students? Social Science Research, 38(4), 810–825.

2013

In 2013, the graduation rate at regional vocational high schools was 95 percent.

2015

In 2015 alone, 39 states instituted 125 new laws, policies or regulations relating to CTE, many of which increased state funding for such programs.

2017

See Hanushek et al. (2017). “General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle.” Journal of Human Resources.

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