The Chronicle News Blog: Chief Executive at Strayer Inc. Is Named CEO of the Year
The chief executive of Strayer Inc., a higher-education company that has pointedly avoided the aggressive growth strategies of many of its competitors, has been named CEO of the Year for 2007 by Morningstar, an independent investment-research company.
Strayer, based in Arlington, Va., owns Strayer University, which operates 51 campuses in 12 states in the eastern United States and Washington, D.C. Strayer enrolls 36,000 students, about half of whom take all their courses online.