Career Education Corporation's Michael Schafer Elected ABHES Commissioner

Accrediting Bureau Oversees Postsecondary Health Education Schools
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.--(Business Wire)--
Michael Schafer, vice president of Academic Affairs for the Health
Division of Career Education Corporation (NASDAQ:CECO), has been
elected as a commissioner for the Accrediting Bureau of Health
Education Schools (ABHES), the company said today. He was elected at
the recent meeting of the ABHES membership.

Schafer has worked in the field of Allied Health education for
more than a decade and has been with Career Education Corporation
(CEC) since 2003. At CEC, Schafer guides the educational activities at
22 campuses, which include all of the Sanford-Brown Institutes and
Colleges across the country, covering 19 distinctly different health
education and nursing programs for a total of 142 programs.

"Michael has long been committed to quality healthcare education
and student success," said Carol Moneymaker, executive director of
ABHES. "We welcome him to the Commission and look forward to his
contributions."

The Medical Assistant programs at 20 CEC schools are
programmatically accredited by ABHES, and seven CEC schools offer
Surgical Technology programs with ABHES programmatic accreditation.

"I am proud to have been able to positively impact the education
and outcomes for thousands of students," said Schafer. "It has been my
professional mission to expand the horizons of career colleges in the
field of Allied Health education and as an ABHES commissioner I will
have the opportunity to do that."

About Career Education Corporation

The colleges, schools, and universities that are part of the
Career Education Corporation (CEC) family offer high quality education
to a diverse population of approximately 90,000 students across the
world in a variety of career-oriented disciplines. The more than 75
campuses that serve these students are located throughout the U.S. and
in Canada, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and offer doctoral,
master's, bachelor's, and associate degrees and diploma and
certificate programs. Approximately one third of our students attend
the web-based virtual campuses of American InterContinental University
Online and Colorado Technical University Online.

CEC is an industry leader whose gold-standard brands are
recognized globally. Those brands include Le Cordon Bleu Schools North
America; Harrington College of Design; Brooks Institute; International
Academy of Design & Technology; American InterContinental University;
Colorado Technical University and Sanford-Brown Institutes and
Colleges. Through its schools, CEC is committed to providing quality
education, enabling students to graduate and pursue rewarding careers.

For more information, see the company's website at
http://www.careered.com. The company's website includes a detailed
listing of individual campus locations and web links to its more than
75 colleges, schools, and universities.

About ABHES

The Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools is the only
independent non-profit agency recognized by the United States
Secretary of Education as an institutional and specialized accreditor
focusing on postsecondary health care education and training. ABHES
accredits programmatically for medical assistant, medical laboratory
technician and surgical technology programs leading to a certificate,
diploma, Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Occupational
Science, or academic associate degrees and programs offered by
distance delivery. It also accredits institutionally outside of the
allied health area, providing the institutions retain predominance in
allied health. For more information, see www.abhes.org.

Career Education Corporation
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