Concord Law School Graduates Summer 2007 Class.LOS ANGELES -- Concord Law School Concord Law School is a four-year, part-time legal education program based in Los Angeles, California. The school is a subsidiary of the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation. All lecture and study sessions are delivered entirely from a secure website on the Internet. celebrated the graduation of 101 students on Saturday, July 28 in Los Angeles at the Skirball Cultural Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . The graduating class included 64 graduates of the Juris Doctor program and 37 graduates who earned their Executive Juris Doctor degree. Nearly half of the graduates entered Concord with one or more graduate degrees including 48 Masters degrees, 7 Ph.D.s, and 2 M.D.s. 12 of the graduates had earned multiple graduate degrees. Among the graduates there were many individuals with fascinating personal stories, including: * A woman who recently took the bar exam as she approaches her seventh decade. Her first career was as an elementary school principal, she then started a successful real estate business, her third career will be law-related * A number of airline pilots who are preparing for a second career as they face the uncertain future of the airline industry * A pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. nurse practitioner who sits on the ethics board of her hospital * The President/CEO of MedicAlert Foundation * A 20 yr career TV broadcast engineer who has worked on the Olympics, Academy Awards, and who helped launch the Oxygen network * An academic who has published two texts on native American Indians that are used at over 50 colleges in the U.S. The graduation speaker was Michael Lambert, executive director of the Distance Education and Training Council The Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) is a non-profit educational accreditation agency specializing in the accreditation of distance education institutions. It was established in 1926 and is recognized by Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the United States . "Mike has been a great supporter of our work at Concord and understands perhaps more than anyone both the challenges and the tremendous potential of distance education," said Concord President and Dean Barry Currier. Following the graduation ceremony Judge Robert Perry, of the Los Angeles Superior Court, administered the oath of admission to four Concord graduates who had passed the California bar. Concord Law School is the nation's first institution to offer a Juris Doctor (JD) degree earned wholly online. It is authorized to award the Juris Doctor degree by the California BPPVE BPPVE Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education and is accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Concord is a division of Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational and career services. Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of The Washington Post Company. For more information on Concord, visit info.concordlawschool.edu. |
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