Bridgepoint released its 3rd Quarter earnings this week. Highlights: — Total student enrollment increased 79.7% year-over-year to 54,894 at the end of the quarter. — Revenue increased 111.3% to $127.4 million from $60.3 million for the same period in 2008. — Operating income increased 233.2% to $38.8 million from $11.7 million for the same...
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New scholarship programs announced for Ashford University. “These scholarship programs benefit top tier students who have achieved high levels of academic excellence,” said Jane McAuliffe, president of Ashford University and senior vice president/chief academic officer of Bridgepoint Education. “At Ashford University, we believe that hard working students who have earned good grades throughout their...
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Yesterday I posted a rant on Aww Martha on the Clinton Herald’s lack of decent news coverage of local major businesses. There really is no excuse because setting up Google News alerts is so simple. So, I did just that for some of the local major businesses. I set it for weekly digests. Instant...
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Lyondell Chemical was purchased by Netherlands-based firm Basell (owned by a Russian oligarch) in July 2007. The new firm, LyondellBasel, burdened by the $12.7 billion leveraged buyout, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January of 2009. LyondellBasell said yesterday that one of its European holding companies had also filed for bankruptcy protection and...
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Returning to a theme here with some updated links. One of the best features of the Internet is the ability to bring people who are dispersed all over together to work on like-minded projects. This can be don ad-hoc by self-forming groups or by private concerns. Either way, crowdsourcing is a powerful tool. Wikipedia,...
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From the San Diego Union Tribune, the hometown paper Bridgepoint Edcucation (Ticker: BPI), the parent company of Ashford University comes the following story from Saturday, September 5: San Diego-based Bridgepoint Education, the for-profit operator of online college programs and two universities, was among Wall Street’s top losers yesterday after it announced that it might...
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Sometime early Friday afternoon a helpful neighbor slipped the
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I thought it was odd last night about 5 p.m. when I could no longer see the forums on the front page of the Herald Website in Google Chrome, which I’ve been happily using as my primary web browser. But they were still visible and readable in with Firefox and Internet Explorer. This morning,...
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I’m not sure what to make of this posting on the Clinton Herald forums that the Forums will be shut down on September 1. Newspaper management’s only public reply has been in the forums and it isn’t exactly clear what will happen next Tuesday. Editor, Charlene Bielema posted this on Monday, the 24th: Yes,...
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There’s a new web site called, Walk Score that gives your neighborhood a “walkability index” based on how many shops, restauants and other amenities are within walking distance. Kind of neat. My neighborhood scores 57 out of 100, Somewhat Walkable. There are some questions regarding the quality of the mapping data they are relying...
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