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John Glen Sperling (January 9, 1921 – August 22, 2014) was an American billionaire businessman who is credited with having led the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States [1] The fortune he amassed was based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which became part of the ...
Aug 26, 2014 · Aug. 25, 2014. John G. Sperling, a pioneer of for-profit education who turned a $26,000 investment into the multibillion-dollar University of Phoenix, calling himself “an unintentional entrepreneur...
Aug 26, 2014 · Aug. 25, 2014 8 PM PT. John G. Sperling, a poor boy from the Missouri Ozarks who survived a cruel childhood to become a college professor and a billionaire with an idea for a university that...
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Aug 25, 2014 · Dr. Sperling had homes in Phoenix, San Francisco and Marin County, according to Klor de Alva. His marriages to Barbara Sperling and Virginia Sperling ended in divorce.
Aug 30, 2014 · Published Aug. 30, 2014. John G. Sperling, 93, a pioneer of for-profit education who turned a $26,000 investment into the multibillion-dollar University of Phoenix, calling himself "an...
Aug 26, 2014 · John G. Sperling, a UC Berkeley alumnus and the founder of the University of Phoenix, died at a hospital in the Bay Area on Friday. He was 93.
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Aug 26, 2014 · Sperling, 93, a billionaire, died Sunday at a hospital near San Francisco, according to a statement from Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. His cause of...
