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The DAVE School is virtually leading the way when it comes to training top-notch animators and designers

Career colleges come in all shapes and sizes. Many are tucked alongside hectic strip malls or in busy urban arenas. And then there’s the DAVE School in Orlando, which is nestled in the back lot of Universal Studios Florida. How many colleges can boast having a theme park literally in their backyard? How many career colleges can boast a bevy of graduates working for major movie studios and animation houses? When it comes to the DAVE School, it’s way more than location, location, location … there’s a certain novelty and charm to this eight-year old Digital Animation & Visual Effects School. (Get it? D-A-V-E?)

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Career colleges report healthy enrollment gains, while community colleges struggle with increased enrollments and declining revenues

The stimulus package designed to relieve the country’s economic woes would bring more relief to students than to the career colleges that educate them, observers agree.
If anything, educators say, the recession has helped proprietary schools by delivering a wave of new students.

“Based on all the conversations I’m having, career colleges are doing well attracting students,” said Harris Miller, CEO and president of the Career College Association. “I’m hearing that all across the country. Enrollments are up.”

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Kaplan’s ‘Talent Campaign’ Introduces a Different Kind Of University

Innovative? Yeah, you could call it that. Or maybe trendsetting … what you’ve always wanted to advertise, but held back for some reason. Call it what you want, but Kaplan University’s new advertising campaign – the “Talent Campaign” – debuted Jan. 6 and its uses imagery and messages that speaks to the thousands of people who do not fit into the traditional student mold without speaking down to them. The central message is higher education is accessible to them, too.