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The Columbian
April 27, 2018
The effort to clone dogs began when John Sperling, the founder of the University of Phoenix, read about Dolly the sheep and decided to clone his girlfriend's dog. The Texas A&M effort he funded failed, though they managed to clone many other species. South Korea picked up the research after that andÃâà...
Inside INdiana Business
April 3, 2018
The surgical case was performed at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota by orthopedic surgeon John Sperling. Zimmer Biomet says the baseplate allows the clinic to leverage its own methodology to optimize shoulder arthroplasty components developed by Sperling. The device is the latest by Zimmer Biomet toÃâà...
Mass Device
April 3, 2018
The Warsaw, Ind.-based company said that the device had been used in its first shoulder procedure, performed by Dr. John Sperling of the Mayo Clinic. Zimmer Biomet said that the Comprehensive Reverse shoulder system, and its newly released Comprehensive Augmented baseplate component, are anÃâà...
The Flyer
March 28, 2018
Streisand admitted that the two clones had different personalities than Samantha. According to investigative reporter John Wostendiak, the first effort to clone a dog occurred after Dolly the sheep made headlines. University of Phoenix founder John Sperling attempted to receive funding from Texas A&M toÃâà...
Salon
March 26, 2018
But when John Sperling opened the University of Phoenix in 1976, his unconventional model, which included course credit for work experience and, in 1989, an early and aggressive move to online learning, allowed for rapid growth. Within five years of going public (in 1994), the school had a hundredÃâà...
Morganton News Herald
March 9, 2018
The effort to clone dogs began when John Sperling, the founder of the University of Phoenix, read about Dolly the sheep and decided to clone his girlfriend's dog. The Texas A&M effort he funded failed, though they managed to clone many other species. South Korea picked up the research after that andÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 9, 2018
The effort to clone dogs began when John Sperling, the founder of the University of Phoenix, read about Dolly the sheep and decided to clone his girlfriend's dog. The Texas A&M effort he funded failed, though they managed to clone many other species. South Korea picked up the research after that andÃâà...
AZCentral.com
March 7, 2018
None. Jerry Moyes, the retired chairman and CEO of Swift Transportation Co., in a 2009 file photo. David Wallace/The Republic. Peter Sperling is the son of Apollo Education Group. None. Peter Sperling is the son of Apollo Education Group founder John Sperling. Apollo Education Group. Like this topic?
Oregon Cannabis Connection
February 12, 2018
It looked like the initiative might fail. Activists urged Ethan Nadelmann, Director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), to convince wealthy philanthropists George Soros, Peter Lewis, and John Sperling to contribute the millions of dollars it would take to win a California ballot measure. A call was put out for moreÃâà...
eLearningInside News
December 17, 2017
John Sperling began Apollo Group, Phoenix University's parent company, in California in the '80s. Soon after, he moved to Arizona because of a more lenient regulatory environment. In the U.S., businesses form LLC's in Delaware, and for-profit educators base their operations in Arizona. Besides ApolloÃâà...
Phoenix Business Journal
October 18, 2017
... a former Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians and other teams — has bought a 6,910-square-foot, Santa Barbara-style estate in the wealthy Arcadia area of Phoenix. Crowe paid $3.235 million for the Exeter Boulevard estate previously owned by the late John Sperling,Ãâà...
Phoenix New Times
September 21, 2017
In the story of for-profit education, Phoenix is pretty much ground zero. It was here that John Sperling, the Cambridge-educated founder of the University of Phoenix, built a for-profit giant after he identified a need for flexible, continuing-education programs in the 1970s. Sperling's enterprise was initially bornÃâà...
AZCentral.com
January 27, 2017
University of Phoenix founder John Sperling's son Peter has listed his opulent Arcadia mansion for $16.85 million. The 18,900-square-foot Phoenix estate is situated on five acres in the coveted neighborhood and comes with 12-and-a-half bathrooms and 10 bedrooms. It's one of the top five priciest housesÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 24, 2015
Peter Sperling, son of University of Phoenix founder John Sperling, has sold a Montecito estate formerly owned by actress Jane Seymour for $10.5 million. Designed by architects William A. Edwards and Joseph Plunkett and completed in the late 1920s, the 3.34-acre compound contains aÃâà...
New York Times
August 25, 2014
John G. Sperling, a pioneer of for-profit education who turned a $26,000 investment into the multibillion-dollar University of Phoenix, calling himself “an unintentional entrepreneur and an accidental C.E.O.,” died on Friday in the San Francisco area. He was 93. His death was announced by the ApolloÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
August 25, 2014
Even critics agree that John Sperling's vision transformed higher education, which has adopted many of his innovative ideas, particularly distance ... John G. Sperling, a poor boy from the Missouri Ozarks who survived a cruel childhood to become a college professor and a billionaire with an idea for aÃâà...
Huffington Post
July 13, 2011
John G. Sperling's sale of 1.8 million shares comes as the stocks at many for-profit college companies have surged in the wake of the Department of Education's issuance of “gainful employment“ rules, which the for-profit college industry had been aggressively fighting for more than a year. As enrollments atÃâà...
Neos Kosmos
December 31, 1999
Private John Sperling sailed with the rest of the 8th Australian Infantry Battalion from Melbourne's Princes Pier on 22 December 1914 – not far from the site of Melbourne's new Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial. He left Australia on a troopship named after the 5th century BCE Athenian politician and general,Ãâà...
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