DeathAugust 222014

John Sperling

John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (born 1921)

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When
Friday, August 22 201412 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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Person
John Sperling

Who they were

John Glen Sperling was an American billionaire businessman who is credited with having led the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States The fortune he amassed was based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix in 1976, which became part of the publicly traded Apollo Group. Sperling brought the business model of higher education to the forefront, a model that employed the scientific management of higher education to the forefront: diminishing the power and importance of labor,

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