Todd Nelson Returns to Higher Education as Chief Executive of Education Management Corp.

Todd S. Nelson, who abruptly resigned just over a year ago as head of the Apollo Group, parent company of the University of Phoenix, was named on Thursday as chief executive of the Education Management Corporation, a rival company.

Mr. Nelson, who has been largely out of the industry since January 2006 because of a noncompete clause in his $18-million severance package with Apollo (The Chronicle, January 12, 2006), said in a written

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