Kaplan University To Fire 200 Employees
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Two hundred Kaplan University admissions employees, primarily in Ft. Lauderdale, Plantation and Boca Raton will soon be looking for work.
The for-profit university has struggled with declining enrollment for years.
Kaplan reported a first quarter loss of $13.2 million, compared to income of $20 million in the first quarter of 2011, according to The Sun Sentinel.
In 2009, Kaplan hired more than 2,800 employees in Florida, nearly 1,000 of them in Broward. In 2011, however, Kaplan and its subsidiaries laid off about 400 workers in South Florida.
Faculty members will not be affected by the downsizing, spokesman Stephen White told the paper.
In recent years the federal government has made it tougher on for-profit universities like Kaplan in hopes to end high-pressure and misleading sales tactics they often use to get students to enroll.
The Sun-Sentinel contributed to this report.
