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Katharine Gibbs College was a for-profit institution of higher learning based in the United States of America, founded by Katharine Gibbs.

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It was first founded in 1911 as the Providence School in Rhode Island, and institution that focused on the career education of young women. [1] A few years later, the institution expanded with satellite campuses in Boston, Massachusetts, New York City and Montclair, New Jersey, and was renamed for its founder. It specialized in education in industries such as design, business administration, computer technology, criminal justice, and health care.

The college was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. [2]

Crowell Collier and Macmillan acquired Katharine Gibbs School in 1968. [3] In 1989, Macmillan sold the schools to Phillips Colleges. K-III Communications acquired the school from Phillips in 1994. [4] In 1997, The Career Education Corporation (CEC) acquired the Gibbs Group. In 2009, it shut down its campuses after a failed effort to sell the Gibbs franchise.

History

In 1911, Katharine Gibbs and her sister Mary Ryan opened their first secretarial school in Providence, Rhode Island.

Initially, the school was not marketed specifically to women, but labor shortages from World War I pushed more women into the work space and, by 1917, the school was advertising “Secretarial Training for Educated Women”. [5] The Gibbs schools promoted a message of female empowerment, while focusing on the type of education that would be most valuable to women at the time. The Gibbs schools promoted the ideas that secretarial training was the path to a career for women. Capitalizing on gender-based restrictions of the time, Gibbs created an educational empire.

To set it apart from other secretarial schools of the era, the Gibbs school was marketed as selecting only women of a high socioeconomic status, making them highly appealing to young women from elite backgrounds. [5] Gibbs distinguished her schools from her competitors, and she did so by offering courses in dressing appropriately, serving tea, and other social refinements.

With the rise of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s secretarial schools began to fade. The decline of the Gibbs school as an elite option for women was the result of its own gender-based marketing tactics.

In 1968, the Gibbs family sold the schools to corporate buyers, who worked to transition the schools' identity. After being sold, it specialized in education in industries such as graphical design, business administration, computer technology, criminal justice, and medical assistants.

In January 2007, the New York State Education Department reported deficiencies at the Katharine Gibbs New York campus. The problems related to faculty qualifications and remedial course offerings. New enrollment was limited and the Education Department stated it would close the college if improvements were not made. [6]

Former locations

Closure

In the fall of 2006, the Illinois-based Career Education Corporation announced that the entire Gibbs College division was being put up for sale. Over the next year, no buyer could be found, so on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Career Education Corporation announced that it would convert three of the nine campuses in the Gibbs division (Boston, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Melville, New York) to its Sanford-Brown College brand and "teach out" the remaining schools in the division. Those seven campuses were scheduled to close in December 2009. [7] Students were still being admitted into the Melville, New York, campus which had been reflagged as "SBI Campus, an affiliate of Sanford-Brown". [8] It was announced in 2013 that the Virginia operation was being shut down. [9]

Academic transcript requests are fulfilled through Parchment Exchange. Parchment Exchange manages processing and delivery; Career Education Corporation or the custodial school of records retains the official transcript data. The National Student Clearinghouse is an authorized agent for providing degree and enrollment verification. [10] [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Katharine Gibbs School Records - Brown University Library". library.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  2. ↑ "Gibbs website". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  3. ↑ "PUBLISHER IN BID FOR GIBBS SCHOOL; Crowell Collier in Accord With Secretarial Institution". Archived from the original on 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  4. ↑ Jones, Kathryn. "COMPANY NEWS; Katharine Gibbs Schools Are Sold". Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  5. 1 2 Mullaney, Marie Marmo; Hilbert, Rosemary C. (February 2018). "Educating Women for Self-Reliance and Economic Opportunity: The Strategic Entrepreneurialism of the Katharine Gibbs Schools, 1911–1968". History of Education Quarterly. 58 (1): 65–93. doi: 10.1017/heq.2017.49 . ISSN   0018-2680. Archived from the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  6. ↑ "State Finds Serious Problems at Gibbs School in Manhattan, January 31, 2007, New York Times, Karen W. Arenson". Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Gibbs College to close Northeast campuses, The Associated Press, February 15, 2008". Archived from the original on June 25, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2008.
  8. ↑ "SBI Campus-Melville website". Archived from the original on 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  9. ↑ "Webpage on Sanford Brown website; accessed December 1, 2013". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Gibbs NY Transcript Requests". Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  11. ↑ Parchment Exchange transcript
  12. ↑ "Degree and Enrollment Verification". Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.

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