July 21, 2006
The Big Asset in This Deal Was a College's Accreditation
A company gained legitimacy instantly when it bought a small Catholic institution
Two years ago, a group of Texas investors went looking for a college to buy. They planned to dismantle most of it and use what was left as a launching pad for a national for-profit college of education.
What the group, led by a Dallas merchant banker, Randy Best, found was Barat College, a struggling Catholic liberal-arts college in suburban Chicago.
Barat had merged in 2001 with DePaul
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