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...sport is growing in popularity in the New England area. In fact, the New England Collegiate Croquet Association (NECCA), which is made up of such schools as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Williams, just added a new member: the Bryman School for Dental Assistants. How's that for diversity...
...card dealers. All share a businesslike outlook: compared with standard college programs, the proprietary schools' training courses are short (often less than a year) and tuition is cheap (about $1.50 per classroom hour as against the colleges' $4 or more). Explains J.S. Olins, vice president of the Bryman School: "We're not interested in education for education's sake but in education for employment's sake...
...Bryman School, headquartered in West Los Angeles, trains medical assistants at 14 locations across the country. Students are assigned only one book: a fat loose-leaf notebook that is supposed to contain all the knowledge the profession requires. As techniques change, new pages are inserted. Says President John Krebs: "We boil out all the nonessentials. We teach only those things that help a person get and keep a good job." Bryman places about 85% of its graduates in jobs and recently became the first proprietary school to have programs accredited by the American Medical Association...
...Frills. The better proprietary schools claim that their new respectability in the academic world is well earned. "We're much more responsive to change than most public colleges," says Bryman's President Krebs. "Things it takes public education three years to do we can do in three months." Three enterprising Philadelphia lawyers, for example, decided that lawyers could use assistants trained in the rudiments of the law, quickly set up a school and graduated their first class in July 1970. Since then twelve community colleges have founded similar programs...