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Graduates of the now-closed Heald College Portland celebrate their academic achievements during
a graduation celebration Friday that Warner Pacific College hosted at Mt. Scott Church of God. The
southeast Portland school is helping displaced Heald students transfer their credits to Warner Pacific
and other colleges.
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Displaced Heald
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When they received an email
stating their school was suddenly
closed, Heald College students
like Zach Shaut didn’t know what
to think. “I thought it was a joke at
first,” said the second year Busi-
ness Administration student with
an emphasis on Entrepreneurship.
Shaut had hoped to gain the
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skills to eventually open his own
hot rod business. Now he was
suddenly sitting in an information
session wondering what’s next.
Heald College and its parent
company Corinthian College shut-
tered April 27 citing government
regulatory pressure on for-profit
universities. The decision hung
16,000 enrolled students out to
dry, including 300 students and 80
staff on their Portland campus.
At least one door has opened
up, however, as Warner Pacific
College has agreed to lower res-
idency requirements and waive
fees for Heald students only. This
will enable a student to bring
many more transfer credits to the
school than normal.
“We’re working with a lot of
students who want to continue
without skipping a beat,” said Ce-
leste Cameron, director of enroll-
ment at Warner Pacific.
The southeast Portland campus
was even considering absorbing
a Heald staff member—Adam
Spitzer, an admissions advisor.
Spitzer said he was overjoyed at
the chance to continue in the same
field of employment.
“If I can advocate for students,
that would be phenomenal,”
Spitzer said.
Heald reportedly has worked
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President Obama will help
raise money for a fellow Dem-
ocrat to win the White House in
2016 and buck some members
of his own party to campaign
for free trade legislation during
a visit to Portland on Thursday
and Friday. Obama will go to
Nike headquarters in Beaver-
ton to talk about how workers Barack Obama
would benefit from “progressive,
high-standards trade agreements
that would open up new markets
and support high-quality jobs”
for businesses large and small, a
White House statement said.
He will also attend a private
fundraising event for the Dem-
ocratic National Committee’s
2016 White House Victory Fund.