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	The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire
		John Sperling was born dirt-poor, fell in with Communists, and became a union organizer who led a strike that ended in disaster.
		John Sperling, an 82-year-old former history professor, is an elf-sized fellow with gold-rimmed aviator glasses and a halo of gray hair.
		Sperling may be an octogenarian, but he still gets up at 5:30 every morning to work out, he still puts in a 12-hour day, and he still lives by that 1999 mantra: Change or die.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/68/sperling.html (3146 words)

	Wired 12.02: John Sperling Wants You to Live Forever
		Three years later, Sperling read a newspaper account speculating that a gene responsible for dramatically extending the lifespans of worms could also be found in humans.
		For the past seven years, Sperling has quietly assembled an unorthodox team of researchers poised to use all relevant technology - including, ultimately, therapeutic cloning, stem cell medicine, and genetic engineering - to alleviate human suffering and the fear of death.
		Sperling oversees the effort by doling out funds from his own fortune.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.02/immortal.html (1147 words)

	Rebel with a Cause : The Entrepreneur Who Created the University of Phoenix and the For-Profit Revolution in Higher ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Sperling's story of his upbringing, and of his evolution into the Ceo of the University of Phoenix, the largest university in America, for-profit or otherwise, is a fascinating tale of struggle and perseverence.
		Sperling, who began his career at 53 years of age, is now a member of the Forbes 400-richest, and a true latecomer (and self-made man) to entreprenurial success,.
		John Sperling is a hero to the working men and women of America and his story needs to be told near and far.
	www.monitor-data.com /books/0471326046.html (2146 words)

	ImmInst.org -> ImmInst Contacting John Sperling
		Sperling is CEO and chairman of Exeter Life Sciences and the chairman of the Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix.
		Sperling was the mystery man behind the Missyplicity Project, in which a team from Texas A&M University tried and failed to clone his dog Missy ("How Much Is That Doggy in the Vitro?" Wired 8.03).
		Sperling has tapped Richard Cutler, a longtime researcher from the National Institute on Aging, and another NIA scientist named Mitch Harman, an expert on hormones, to lead it and organize collaborations with academic labs around the country.
	www.imminst.org /forum/index.php?s=&act=ST&f=69&t=3006&st=0& (4430 words)

	Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1246
		John Smith in mercy for not producing what he was pledge to produce.
		John Mercer will give three chicken yearly at Martinmas for having the lord's patronage and he is received into a tithing.
		Gonild de la Pole and John her son are in mercy for an injury done to Alice Webbe and her mother.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/seth/bec.html (1750 words)

	Selected Article 1-18-95
		Sperling surmised that adults were most concerned with the use of their time, and his objective was to help them obtain a degree in the limited time available to them.
		Sperling also decided to concentrate class instruction to once a week, and he filled each class curriculum with plenty of interaction between student and instructor.
		Sperling, along with his son Peter, vice president of administration, own 60% of the class A non-voting shares and 82.5% of the class B common shares after Apollo's December public offering.
	www.apollogrp.edu /releases/selected/011895.htm (967 words)

	USATODAY.com - Independent voices rising in ads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Sperling is the force — and the money — behind a quirky $2 million advertising campaign in major newspapers this month.
		Sperling is an Arizona entrepreneur and self-described "meddler" who made his fortune as founder of the University of Phoenix, a nationwide network of campuses and online courses aimed at working adults.
		Sperling acknowledges that his effort may be ignored by Kerry as a distraction from campaign themes.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2004-08-18-metro-retro-usat_x.htm (772 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		SPERLING: We took the company public and the IPO, the stock increased by 20 times and I was holding, my son and I were holding a third of the company or nearly 40 percent of the company.
		SPERLING: Well, I was in a neighbor's cherry orchard eating, unfortunately, not quite ripe cherries and got a terrible case of dysentery and stomach upset and for some reason I guess it lowered my resistance and I got pneumonia and the pneumonia did not go away.
		SPERLING: The sea water farms are going to be an essential element in, you might call, the economic recovery of both Eritrea and Ethiopia.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0105/19/pin.00.html (2817 words)

	CNN Transcript - Pinnacle: Apollo Group CEO John Sperling Looks to Broaden Boundaries of Higher Education - July 16, ...
		JOHN SPERLING: We took the company public and the IPO, the stock increased by 20 times and I was holding, my son and I were holding a third of the company or nearly 40 percent of the company.
		JOHN SPERLING: Well, I was in a neighbor's cherry orchard eating, unfortunately, not quite ripe cherries and got a terrible case of dysentery and stomach upset and for some reason I guess it lowered my resistance and I got pneumonia and the pneumonia did not go away.
		JOHN SPERLING: The sea water farms are going to be an essential element in, you might call, the economic recovery of both Eritrea and Ethiopia.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0007/16/pin.00.html (2962 words)

	Inside the Very Strange World of Billionaire John Sperling
		John Sperling was in his office in Phoenix when he got the call.
		Sperling knows that when Missy dies he could simply get another dog, but he thinks that his chances of finding one just like her are slim.
		Sperling loved the interaction with students but began to tire of the culture of academia and the dinner parties of "lousy wine and tuna-and-macaroni casseroles" at professors' houses.
	www.genetics-and-society.org /resources/items/20020429_fortune_warner.html (3021 words)

	John Sperling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some academics still think of John Sperling as a mercenary who defiled the intellectual sanctity of the university system with the introduction of a crass, money-making venture.
		Sperling designed a curriculum for them, but when he tried to bring the program into the university system, his plan met with opposition.
		Sperling still delights in his role as agent provocateur, backing everything from drug-reform legislation to the genetic engineering of agricultural crops (and, as a matter of fact, house pets).
	www.inc.com /magazine/20040401/25sperling.html (586 words)

	John Sperling < Business < Career < People < : news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sperling was also President of Apollo Group, Inc. from its inception until February 1998 and Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Group, Inc. until August 2001.
		Prior to his involvement with Apollo Group, Inc., from 1961 to 1973, Dr. Sperling was a professor of Humanities at San Jose State University where he was the Director of the Right to Read Project and the Director of the NSF Cooperative College-School Science Program in Economics.
		Sperling received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.A. from Reed College.
	schema-root.org /people/career/business/john_sperling (431 words)

	Red, Blue and Lots of Green (washingtonpost.com)
		Suzanne Helburn, a University of Colorado professor and expert on child care, Samuel George, a political consultant, John Morris, an economics professor at the University of Colorado, and Carl Hunt, a consultant specializing in public utilities, were invited to a retreat in Cozumel.
		Sperling is working with pollster Celinda Lake to do some post-election analysis and plans to keep the Great Divide project running for five years.
		John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank, argues that Sperling's data is intriguing but his approach is doomed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A62936-2004Oct25_3.html (776 words)

	Marijuana Policy Project: Arizona
		Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley and University of Phoenix founder John Sperling are each working on drug-policy initiatives for the November general election, but they have very different views on how the state should treat people caught with pot.
		Sperling and his supporters are gathering signatures for an initiative that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
		Sperling and two other investors, George Soros and Peter Lewis, have funded 19 initiatives in states across the country, each designed to loosen drug laws.
	www.mpp.org /AZ/news_2350.html (631 words)

	Kerry's Billionaire Buddy Divides America (The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America)
		Sperling, who unsuccessfully tried to clone his dog but had more luck with his pet cat, appeared on the U.S. political scene several weeks ago when he began running newspaper ads that divided America into "retro" and "metro" camps.
		Sperling is spending $2 million of his own fortune on the retro vs. metro campaign, but he insists he's not trying to divide America any more than it's already split.
		Sperling and enclose all of our medical bills from this past year and tell him we want him to pay our medical bills from now on, because he has the money.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1198953/posts (2876 words)

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		Robert Tucker and John Sperling graciously agreed to write an article for the NLII Viewpoint that captures many of the key ideas from their recently published book For-Profit Higher Education: Developing a World-Class Workforce.
		Tucker and Sperling place strong emphasis on the importance of outputs, or learning outcomes; you will see this reflected in their suggestions about product metrics, in their support for a standardized curriculum as a quality control mechanism, and in their vehement objection to the input-oriented standards of accreditors and state and federal regulatory agencies.
		John Sperling, Ph.D. (jgsperli@apollo1.uophx.edu), is fo under of the University of Phoenix and the Institute for Professional Development and chairman and CEO of Apollo Group, Inc.
	www.educause.edu /ir/library/html/NLI0016.html (5507 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		This worldview clash, according to Sperling's analysis, explains how Americans can be so divided over questions such as embryonic stem cell research, abortion, and same-sex marriage.
		Speaking of his current project, Sperling told The New York Times that his work should be seen as a "position paper" for a "reformation" of the Democratic Party.
		John Sperling's Retro vs. Metro analysis is secularism on speed.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/mohler/1280767.html?view=print (1566 words)

	Genetics and Society: Analysis: Developing the Technologies: Cloned and Genetically Modified Pets: Who is Behind the ...
		John Sperling made his fortune, estimated at $3 billion, from the University of Phoenix, a for-profit adult education institution which he founded in 1976.
		Sperling has invested millions in companies he established to create cloned and genetically modified animals, and has a major stake in opposing any legislation that would ban these practices.
		In Sperling's vision, the Democrats should become the party of elite techno-corporate entrepreneurs and their creative, socially liberal employees and customers living in the metropolitan communities of the United States.
	www.genetics-and-society.org /analysis/pet/who.html (1287 words)

	Portland NORML News - Monday, January 5, 1998
		Sperling finds nothing poignant in his return to a place he moved to as a teen-ager with his mother after his father died, a place where they were so poor, said his son, Peter, he had to steal chickens to eat.
		Sperling was born in Freedom Schoolhouse, a hamlet in rural Missouri, the youngest of six children.
		Sperling thinks his school's success has influenced more traditional universities that are adopting practical, hands-on approaches to teaching and tapping the market of adult learners.
	www.pdxnorml.org /980105.html (15992 words)

	Chief Executive (U.S.): The Accidental CEO.(Review) (book review) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sperling founded the University of Phoenix in his 50's with no investors and no CEO track record amidst the sort of mean-spirited opposition from accreditation agencies, competitors, and the press that would make the strongest CEOs, even you, weep in frustration.
		To this day, Sperling says he hasn't received a single letter from a CEO of an established company who didn't start the company, though he says entrepreneurs write often with effusive thanks.
		Sperling, asked by an editor at John Wiley to write a business book, had never read any--so he went out and read eight of them.
	www.highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:77036389&ctrlInfo=Round18:Mode18c:DocG:Result&ao= (516 words)

	University of Phoenix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and was founded in 1976 by John Sperling.
		Academic purists have criticized John Sperling for introducing the profit motive to higher education and for getting rich in the process.
		A professor at San Jose State University declared "John Sperling represents something horrible in American education".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Phoenix (816 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The authors consist of three economists, a political strategist and John Sperling, a multi-millionaire Democrat and founder of the privately held University of Phoenix.
		For that, they should be lauded, but Sperling and company sometimes get a bit didactic when it comes to accusing conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists for taking the nation backwards.
		Sperling claims to be "metro" and outlines metro values, but does not do a good job practicing them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0976062100?v=glance (2823 words)

	The Longevity Meme -- ideas and actions for longer, healthier lives
		John Sperling is the guy who will probably save (and greatly extend) your life, even if you didn't know it up until now.
		He's what the healthy life extension movement has always needed; an enormously wealthy, savvy person who is prepared to go out and do what needs to be done.
		This Wired article gives an overview of John Sperling's projects to date, and some speculation on the future.
	www.longevitymeme.org /news/view_news_item.cfm?news_id=735 (212 words)

	NEWSMAKER PROFILE / John Sperling / Rags-to-riches sugar daddy of copied cat / Sharecropper's son put up $3.7 million ...
		Although Sperling declined to be interviewed, Hawthorne and other sources helped stitch together the rags-to-riches tale of the rebellious millionaire who turned his back on traditional academia in the 1970s to start the University of Phoenix, a for-profit
		Born in 1921 into a Missouri sharecropper's family, Sperling escaped a harsh youth by joining the merchant marine, where he taught himself to read and began a lifelong interest in politics.
		In a 2001 interview on CNN, Sperling said his frustrations with traditional academia at San Jose State prompted him, in the late 1970s, to use $26,000 in personal savings to launch the University of Phoenix, a for-profit institute to offer advanced degrees to adults who worked days.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/02/16/MN.DTL (947 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99037671 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The book is a must-read for anyone interested in starting or building a business."-Peter Lewis, Chairman and CEO, The Progressive Corporation "The University of Phoenix is the largest private university in the United States.
		This is the story of the entrepreneur who launched a revolution in higher education."-Arthur Levine, President, Teacher's College, Columbia University "Education will be one of the key growth sectors of our knowledge-based economy over the next ten years.
		John Sperling, founder and Chairman of Apollo Group, has been one of the visionary driving forces behind this growth.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/wiley033/99037671.html (291 words)

	Playbill Celebrity Buzz: PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Ted Sperling
		Sperling talked to Playbill.com about the new chapter in his career.
		When Michael John invited me to that first reading, he already knew he wanted to write a second act, a companion piece, and he knew which Japanese short story he wanted to base it on, and he knew he wanted the tone to be complementary.
		But it was all sort of in place before 9/11 happened—the structure of the story, and the idea of a miracle.
	www.playbill.com /celebritybuzz/article/95897.html (1255 words)

	AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth
		John Aravosis is a Washington DC-based writer and political consultant, specializing in using the Internet for political advocacy.
		John has a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown, where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
		John is also an occasional TV pundit, having appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, ABCNews World News Tonight, CNN, Court TV, and more.
	americablog.blogspot.com /2005/06/oops-gop-really-is-all-white-study.html (903 words)

	John G. Sperling \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Sperling left a tenured faculty position at San Jose State University after failing to convince the institution to offer for-profit education programs for adults.
		Sperling launched the for-profit University of Phoenix in 1976 amidst great controversy and ridicule.
		Despite many hurdles, Sperling built the University of Phoenix into a vibrant and successful institution.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/849 (95 words)

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