Ned Snyder will become director of the Dayton campus and “provide support and oversight” to the Springboro and Troy campuses, the statement said. Snyder has managed several of Delta’s campuses on the east and west coasts.
Delta bought the locally owned 150-year-old Miami-Jacobs in 2003 and expanded the college’s course offerings, adding medical training programs and branch campuses. Some of those programs came under fire starting in 2007.
Waite led Miami-Jacobs through more than two years of controversy as it withdrew an appeal and lost accreditation of its respiratory care program, was ordered by an arbitrator to pay surgery technology students and defended problems that risk accreditation of its nursing program. Throughout, Waite has described the school’s troubles as minor.
Delta Career Education was founded in 1998 as the for-profit education industry began to boom. Using $700 million in private equity the firm began buying up for-profit schools around the country, according to the company’s website.
It now operates 10 different colleges with 37 campuses and more than 16,000 students. Between 1998 and 2009 enrollment at the nation’s for-profit colleges jumped 236 percent, according to study by learning advocate The Education Trust.
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