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Friday, June 25, 2010
Kaplan cuts workforce
MORAINE - Kaplan College, until recently the Ohio Institute of Photography and Technology, confirmed Friday, June 25 the layoff of 14 the school’s roughly 100 employees.
“Yesterday was a tough day on our campus because we made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce in an effort to align our business to the number of students we are serving,” said Tiphany Pugh, director of operations of the Dayton campus on East River Road, in a statement.
Pugh said the layoffs would not impact students or the quality of education they receive. “The campus still has nearly 90 employees,” the statement said. Pugh said the school had no further comment.
The college, which offers 2-year degrees and certificates in photography, computer technology and law enforcement, had more than 750 students in 2008, according to statistics reported to the U.S. Department of Education. Tuition for the 2009-2010 school year was $20,583, a 1 percent decline from a year earlier.
Brandy Trick, a Dayton resident and photography student at Kaplan, said students learned of the layoffs on Thursday. “They called an emergency staff meeting and all these people were laid off,” she said.
A student protest of the layoffs is planned in front of the campus entrance of the for-profit school on Monday, June 28, Trick said. Kaplan officials would not allow a Dayton Daily News reporter to interview students on campus Friday.
Kaplan Higher Education acquired the Ohio Institute of Photography and Technology in 2000 and relocated to the Moraine site last fall. In addition to higher education, Kaplan offers test preparation services and other types of professional training. It is a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company.
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