February 7, 2010
California's Booming Suburbs Are Fertile Ground for For-Profit Revolution
Noah Berger for The Chronicle
Devry U.'s campus in fast-growing Elk Grove, Calif., is expected to exceed its capacity soon, and university officials are searching for more space.
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Noah Berger for The Chronicle
Devry U.'s campus in fast-growing Elk Grove, Calif., is expected to exceed its capacity soon, and university officials are searching for more space.
Elk Grove, Calif.
By traditional standards, the DeVry University campus in this sprawling Central Valley suburb doesn't look like much.
It consists entirely of a gray building in an office park next to the freeway, 20 miles from the state capital, Sacramento. The library is a room with two short rows of books and a computer. The cluster of classrooms is quiet, bright, and standardized, a cross between a college and a Kinko's.
But the Sacramento Center, as the campus is called, is booming.
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