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- ↑ "Career Education Announces New College Network; Brings the International Academy of Design & Technology and Brown College under the Sanford-Brown Name". 31 March 2014.
- ↑ "Sanford-Brown class in Tampa is its last, the latest in nationwide for-profit closings, this time for Career Education Corp. - Tampa Bay Business Journal". Archived from the original on 2015-05-15.
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