February 4, 2005

For-Profit Education Companies Brace Themselves for '60 Minutes' Exposé

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

An impending report by 60 Minutes on problems in the for-profit higher-education industry has the Career College Association scurrying to mount a pre-emptive public-relations campaign, according to an e-mail memorandum the group sent to its members this month.

The memo, titled "60 Minutes -- Communications Strategy," was sent by the association's president, Nicholas J. Glakas. It outlines a multipronged response that the 1,270-member group will take "to deal with any possible

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