Decker College was a proprietary (investor-owned and for-profit) comprehensive business school. It has 5,700 students, 500 faculty and staff and multiple campuses in Louisville,
Louisville,
Kentucky,
Atlanta, Georgia,
Indianapolis, Indiana, and
Jacksonville, Florida.
The school was closed in September 2005, and filed for bankruptcy following a disagreement with the
United States Department of Education about accreditation of its construction-related courses and online instruction. According to former U.S. Senator
Alfonse D'Amato
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato (born August 1, 1937) is an American politician born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He served as United States Senator for New York between 1981 and 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies.
...
during the
2006 Republican primary for
Governor of New York
The governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has ...
,
William Weld
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
, former Governor of Massachusetts and chief executive of the college from January to October 2005, was responsible and oversaw "multimillion dollar looting".
On June 10, 2009, the Associated Press reported that the case against Decker College had been dropped, and no charges had been filed. Robert Keats, bankruptcy trustee for Decker College, disclosed the status of the investigation to a federal bankruptcy judge in a filing made public June 9. "There are no indictments, no further investigation," he stated. According to the AP, U.S. Attorney spokeswoman Dawn Masden confirmed that the investigation was closed with no indictments.
On August 12, 2016, the Decker College bankruptcy case was re-examined, with a Kentucky federal high court ruling and overturning false allegations made in 2012 by Education Department employee Ralph LoBosco. The verdict showed the potential for falsification of all evidence against Decker College, which erroneously led to the Department of Education's termination of the school's accreditation and federal funding. The late verdict allowed Decker College to regain its new life."
References
External links
* https://www.deckercollege.us
Decker College info page (PDF) (archived 9/28/2007)
Article: "For-Profit College With Ties to William Weld Closes Most of Its Campuses and Lays Off Employees"– ''
The Chronicle of Higher Education''
Educational institutions disestablished in 2005
Defunct private universities and colleges in Kentucky
Defunct companies based in Louisville, Kentucky
Universities and colleges in Louisville, Kentucky
2005 disestablishments in Kentucky
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