Heald College

Heald College is a for-profit, business-career college with multiple campuses in the Western United States.

The college was founded^[1] in San Francisco, California, by Edward Payson Heald, on August 8, 1863, and known for many years as "Heald's Business College".^[2] Heald College campuses are located in 11 cities, including Portland, Oregon, and Honolulu, Hawaii, and throughout Northern and Central California. Heald offers Associate degrees in the Applied Sciences and Associate of Arts degrees, diplomas or certificate, in 34 fields. Heald College has regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

In November 2009, Corinthian Colleges, Inc., purchased the Heald Colleges parent company for $395 million, simultaneously announcing plans to begin offering online-only courses in 2010, leading to degree programs based entirely on online-only coursework. However, Corinthian planned to retain the Heald name, as well as its faculty and staff.^[3]

Heald's Honolulu campus employs 90 staffers serving a student body of 1,300. It was founded in 1917 as Honolulu Business College, later merging with Cannon's Business College in 1973, and becoming a Heald College campus in 1993.^[3]

Heald College alumni

• "Trader Vic" Bergeron, restaurateur
• Michael H. de Young, San Francisco Chronicle newspaper publisher and museum founder
• George Christopher, former Mayor of San Francisco
• Malisia Petropoulos, adult model
• Amadeo Giannini, founded Transamerica and proposed a merger of his, Bank of Italy, with Bank of America, Los Angeles, to become Bank of America, where he became the chairman of the bank that, at one point, was the largest in the world, with over 500 branches.

References

• The Bay of San Francisco (and Its Cities and Their Suburbs) Vol 1. Lewis Publishing Company. 1892. pp. 473. 
• van Ommeren, Alice (2004). Stockton in Vintage Postcards. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 101-102. ISBN 978-0-7385-2878-6. http://arcadiapublishing/com. 

External links

• Heald College website